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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Democrats across the country have been pushing back on President Trump's D.C. crime crackdown, citing statistics purportedly showing that crime in the nation's capital is down or even at historic lows, but an expert who spoke to Fox News Digital is pushing back on that narrative.

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"But really what it is is a record of crimes that are reported to the police and then those of those crimes that get reported to the FBI. It's not a full record of all violent crimes, and this is a problem. And the FBI is very explicit about this when they present the data in their formal report every year, where they say, Do not directly compare the data from year to year because there are differences in how frequently people report crimes and how frequently the FBI gets that data from the local police agencies

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"an expert who spoke to Fox News Digital is pushing back".....

Define "expert" please Bozo.

A legitimate expert wouldn't even waste their time.

#1 | Posted by shoeless at 2025-08-16 11:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

An "expert" on Fox Spews.

lol

"Push back" all you want from your safe space.

I'll believe nothing that propaganda arm of the republicans says. They are not under oath. They are blabbering on a network successfully sued for lying.

See you in court where you cannot spread lies and misinformation without risking contempt or perjury charges you fargin ICE hole.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-16 11:31 AM | Reply

There's nothing happening in DC that demands military occupation.

Trump wants military occupation because that's what dictators do.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-08-16 11:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

---- off Boy-@ss, you ------- drooling MAGAT scum.

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-16 03:37 PM | Reply

Democrats aren't cherry picking when they highlight declining crime in D.C. Data shows real drops since 2023 peaks. But it's key to remember FBI stats only reflect reported crimes and can vary year to year due to reporting differences. Trends matter, but data isn't perfect.

#5 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 04:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Does it really matter?

DC has a crime problem there is more crime than there is in my neighborhood.

Why shouldn't Americans expect there to be just as much crime in one neighborhood than another?

Are Asians a protected class?
Are African Americans an under class?

Liberals like myself stive for equality and equity, the only way to help the poor become rich, is to give them a crime free existence.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 05:06 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I see Witless and DonorBot are out of sorts.

They like the poor to be helpless

Gives them something to complain about.

DonorBot is like all those in the homeless industrial complex. Talk a good game, collect the money, do nothing for the people.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 05:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Liberals like myself stive for equality and equity, the only way to help the poor become rich, is to give them a crime free existence.

Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-16 05:06 PM | Reply

You're so full of crap it's not even funny. You aren't a liberal. Far from it.

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-16 05:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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#9 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-16 05:13 PM | Reply

Suddenly dips^%#s like boaz care about data.

Otherwise it's all feeling all the time.

Even now, they're incapable of actually analyzing data right.

All in defense of a spray tanned pile of s%* destroying the country.

GFY mooch.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-16 08:52 PM | Reply

Expert: "We can't trust crime stats because of how they are reported!"
Same Expoert: "Let's compare 2024 with 2013!"

Irony: Using the expert's numbers, homicide was much lower until Trump took over the first time and then it started jumping.

#11 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-08-16 09:06 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

GFY mooch.

#10 | Posted by jpw

MEMO TO :Leftist dog eared dopes and pathological

liars....SEE ABOVE

A history lesson......

In 2022 Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser went to Capitol Hill and asked for the National Guard's assistance because crime was so bad.

--you suck

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-17 09:56 AM | Reply

#12 yawn.

Idiot keeps posting this same inane s^*% everywhere.

Definitely a chain email talking point.

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 10:37 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Joe Biden had something to say about crime in DC.

Video at the link

www.foxnews.com

#14 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-17 02:53 PM | Reply

Pedo 47 had 5 DC cops killed via insurrection.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-17 02:55 PM | Reply

Pedo 47 had 5 DC cops killed via insurrection.

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-17 02:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Prove it.

#16 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-17 03:00 PM | Reply

#16 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

You voted for a pedophile and a criminal.

You ------- loser.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:04 PM | Reply

Officers Gunther Hashida, Brian Sicknick, Kyle DeFreytag, Jeffrey Smith and Howard Liebengood all perished because Putin's kid-diddling bitch lost an election

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-17 03:05 PM | Reply

Definitely a chain email talking point.
#13 | POSTED BY JPW

100%

When several different posters post the same misinformation, you know they're quoting propaganda they've been fed.

#19 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:08 PM | Reply

What's sad is Jeff has to hide behind laughable sock puppets to spew his fascist --------. What a coward.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-17 03:10 PM | Reply

Had Trump simply conceded the election, just like every other losing POTUS candidate in history, Ashli Babbitt and 5 police officers would still be alive.

#21 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-17 03:24 PM | Reply


Expert: "We can't trust crime stats because of how they are reported!"
Same Expoert: "Let's compare 2024 with 2013!"
Irony: Using the expert's numbers, homicide was much lower until Trump took over the first time and then it started jumping.
#11 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

How many murders will it take Phsycophant?

Do African Americans at least deserve as many murders and homicides per capita as in your neighborhood?

Wouldn't the be equity?

You're so full of crap it's not even funny. You aren't a liberal. Far from it.

I am a Liberal Californian, you're from where Kansas? You wouldn't know a Liberal if it landed on your head.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-17 03:44 PM | Reply


Prove it.
#16 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

idk where this lie comes from, I have tried to "prove it" but I just can't find the facts. Maybe Gaslighter can come up with some.

#23 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-17 03:45 PM | Reply | Funny: 1


In 2022 Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser went to Capitol Hill and asked for the National Guard's assistance because crime was so bad.

To Lumpers its only crime if LGBTQ+ people get are affected.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-17 03:46 PM | Reply

I am a Liberal Californian,
#22 | POSTED BY ONETROLL

What happened to being a Chinese immigrant?

No one believed that lie so you're going back to being an "open borders liberal"?

No one's gonna believe that either.

Perhaps just embrace the fact you're a Trump worshipping Incel.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:48 PM | Reply

"Do African Americans at least deserve as many murders and homicides per capita as in your neighborhood?"

Deserve?
Blacks are far more likely to be murdered than whites.

While only 13.7 percent of the overall U.S. population is Black, more than half of all homicide victims in 2023 were Black (53.8 percent)
vpc.org

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 03:50 PM | Reply

To Lumpers its only crime if LGBTQ+ people get are affected.
#24 | POSTED BY ONETRUMP

To Trumpers, it's a crime to be an LGBTQ+ person.

But being a pedophile is totally acceptable.

Trump on, incel!

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:50 PM | Reply

"Biden warned of DC crime crisis in 1992"

LOL.

#28 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 03:51 PM | Reply

1992?

Talk about cherry picking.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:54 PM | Reply

Talk a good game, collect the money, do nothing for the people.

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

You talk a piss poor game pretend to care and laugh at the problems of the poor.

GFY commie.

#30 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-17 03:54 PM | Reply

Talk about cherry picking.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 03:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

The point is D.C. has been a crime infested ------ hole for a long time. You losers just want to bitch because someone is actually making an effort to clean it up.

#31 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-17 04:15 PM | Reply

"The point is D.C. has been a crime infested ------ hole for a long time."

Right so there's no sudden "emergency" and Trump is just making that part up.

#32 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 04:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"You losers just want to bitch because someone is actually making an effort to clean it up."

He's not making any effort to clean it up.

Nor is his effort to clean it up in response to a request from anyone in D.C. government to help.

So, you're really just completely working with made up facts here.

#33 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 04:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

While only 13.7 percent of the overall U.S. population is Black, more than half of all homicide victims in 2023 were Black (53.8 percent)
vpc.org

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 03:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

Now tell us who murdered those victims.

And while you're at it, who's crime bill targeted young black males for lengthy sentences more than anyone else? Hint, you voted for him.

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-17 04:17 PM | Reply

"Now tell us who murdered those victims."

^
Most blacks are murdered by blacks, just like most whites are murdered by whites.

"who's crime bill targeted young black males for lengthy sentences more than anyone else?"

So now you're telling us that targeting young black males for lengthy sentences actually made crime in D.C. worse, thirty years later.

You are simply not a smart person. You're not even of average intelligence.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 04:19 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

you're really just completely working with made up facts here.
#33 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

Just another day in the life of a Trumper.

They love their alternative reality.

#36 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 04:24 PM | Reply

"The point is D.C. has been a crime infested ------ hole for a long time."

Just not during his first term, right cultist?

#37 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-17 04:25 PM | Reply

You know what would cause, but ultimately clean up, gun violence in Washington, D.C.?

If Trump sent the military into the black neighborhoods and took all the guns away.

I can't see Republicans really opposing that.

#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 04:32 PM | Reply

You are simply not a smart person. You're not even of average intelligence.

#35 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2025-08-17 04:19 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

As if you have an IQ high enough to spot intelligence.

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-08-17 08:07 PM | Reply

I am a Liberal Californian

#22 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

No, you're not you lying sack of s^%*.

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 08:41 PM | Reply

The point is D.C. has been a crime infested ------ hole for a long time. You losers just want to bitch because someone is actually making an effort to clean it up.

#31 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

STFU you idiotic p^%%.

F^*% you're stupid.

#41 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 08:42 PM | Reply

As if you have an IQ high enough to spot intelligence.

#39 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Look in the mirror, dumbf^*%.

#42 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 08:43 PM | Reply

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#43 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2025-08-17 08:49 PM | Reply

As if you have an IQ high enough to spot intelligence.
#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds

For purposes of this discussion, all you need is an IQ high enough to spot a man who has given up on finding happiness in life, and blames everyone but himself for it.

Did your dick fall off? I'd be mad too.

You seem more like the kind who turned his crippling DUI into a million dollar payout, but now you wish you'd died.

#44 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 09:04 PM | Reply

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