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Is Violent Crime in Washington, DC at 30-year low?
Critics have expressed skepticism at data coming from the Metropolitan Police Department of the U.S. capital. Snopes looked at FBI data.
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Many of the details the president cited do not stand up to scrutiny. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4mjC4FY [image or embed] -- PBS News (@pbsnews.org) Aug 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Many of the details the president cited do not stand up to scrutiny. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/4mjC4FY [image or embed]
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... The nation's capital is "becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness," Trump said at an Aug. 11 press conference. "Washington, D.C., should be one of the safest, cleanest and most beautiful cities anywhere in the world, and we're going to make it that." ...
The number of military stationed in Washington, DC is a not a large number compared to the number of law enforcement people usually there.
It looks like the purpose of the deployment is more for optics than anything else. But why?
Yet another Epstein distraction attempt?
Trying to normalize Pres Trump's dispatching of military against civilians?
???
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-16 03:18 PM | Reply
Is Donald Trump a LIAR?
#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-16 08:08 PM | Reply
A pedantic, academic question at best.
Nationally, crime is way down from historical levels and is dropping after a pandemic spike. The picture Trump paints is the same as he painted the first time when it also wasn't true.
His claims are but a pretext to his authoritarian power grab. Thats it.
#3 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 07:46 AM | Reply
#3 | 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.
#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-17 10:00 AM | Reply
BUT #2 and #3 posters keep on with your circle party.
Loneliness can be difficult to the mentally infirmed.
#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-08-17 10:03 AM | Reply
#4 you mean during the pandemic spike that occurred more or less nationally and is the recent high that is used as the comparison for current trends?
You're a f^*+ing idiot.
#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 10:35 AM | Reply
#5 this stupid f^%# makes an irrelevant point (probably a talking point he read in a Trump email chain ... ) and acts like it's a mic drop ...
#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 10:36 AM | Reply
Could be the crime statistics in Democrat run cities like DC are fabricated for political reasons. www.nbcwashington.com
#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-17 11:25 AM | Reply
I cant believe you progressives are justifying crime.
Talk about being on the wrong side of history.
#9 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-17 11:44 AM | Reply
I cant believe you progressives are justifying crime. Talk about being on the wrong side of history. #9 | Posted by boaz
Enough about the stupid libs. What is it that you think you are justifying?
#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 11:45 AM | Reply
Cite a lie often enough and it becomes dem legacy media 'journalism'.
#11 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-08-17 11:46 AM | Reply
I cant believe you progressives are justifying crime. Talk about being on the wrong side of history. #9 | Posted by boaz at
Maybe we learned from Jan 6.
All those criminals, pardoned by a President who supports crime.
#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 11:47 AM | Reply
#9 | POSTED BY BOAZ
Nobody is justifying crime, mooch.
And you're a Trumper. You'll be looked at like those who supported Mussolini.
#13 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 12:08 PM | Reply
#11 | POSTED BY MSGT
This stupid f^*%tard lives in opposite land. He believes everything he's told no matter how much it contradicts reality while calling stats and trends from multiple sources and places "lies."
Were you born this stupid or have you worked at it?
#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 12:09 PM | Reply
I cant believe you progressives are justifying crime. Talk about being on the wrong side of history. #9 | POSTED BY BOAZ
Republicanism are the ones refusing to release the Epstein Files. And you know, you know, that Trump is all over the Epstein Files. The other thing you know is that you simply don't care that Trump ------ thirteen year old girds. You really just don't care. No different than you not caring when those Dancing Boys got ------ in Afghanistan. Certainly not a problem that America need concern itself with, a President that rapes teenage runaways.
#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-17 12:12 PM | Reply
-And you're a Trumper. You'll be looked at like those who supported Mussolini.
No, he'll be looked at like those who supported George Bush
#16 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-17 12:19 PM | Reply
- justifying crime.
Trumpers justify all the crimes that Trump's own Staff testified under Oath that he committed each time they make excuses for him.
Because they don't care that he committed crimes.
#17 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-17 12:21 PM | Reply
Republicanism are the ones refusing to release the Epstein Files.
Why didn't the Democrats release it? Complaining about this just makes you look incredibly ignorant of the history here.
Certainly not a problem that America need concern itself with, a President that rapes teenage runaways. #15 | POSTED BY SNOOFY
Biden certainly didn't seem to care.
#17 | POSTED BY CORKY
The crimes he committed were process crimes. Only 30% of Homicides in DC are solved. Which is more important?
#18 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-17 12:26 PM | Reply
Could be the crime statistics in Democrat run cities like DC are fabricated for political reasons. #8 | POSTED BY VISITOR_
This is most every government statistic where there needs to be a virtual "count".
Funding depends upon "progress".
#19 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-17 12:27 PM | Reply
Runt, raping 13 year olds who resemble Ivanka isn't a process crime.
#20 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-08-17 12:28 PM | Reply
Why didn't the Democrats release it? #18 | POSTED BY ONEPEDO
They should have.
Why isn't Trump releasing the Epstein files?
In February 2025, Bondi stated on Fox News that Epstein's client list was "sitting on my desk right now to review,"
So. What happened?
We know you don't care.
You're a partisan hack.
#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 12:33 PM | Reply
The crimes [Trump] committed were process crimes. #18 | POSTED BY ONECUCK
So he's a criminal.
Not that it matters to a partisan hack like you.
#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 12:34 PM | Reply
Could be you've got your head up Trump's arse.
I'd wager I'm correct, and all you got is shht on your face.
Keep swinging, shht boy.
#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 12:37 PM | Reply
#16 | POSTED BY EBERLY
This is the stupidest thing you've said in a long time.
#24 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 12:54 PM | Reply
Does this stupid sack of s^%# ever say anything worth reading?
#25 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-17 12:55 PM | Reply
Does this stupid sack of s^%# ever say anything worth reading? #25 | POSTED BY JPW
I discovered early in the posting history of our "open borders, liberal, Chinese immigrant", that he posts nothing but lies, misinformation and propaganda.
He's never posted anything worth reading.
Like SHRIMPdick and Visitard.
They're all stupid trolls.
#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-17 01:04 PM | Reply
Why is Trump protecting Bill Clinton?
#27 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-17 01:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 1
Good question.
#28 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-17 01:53 PM | Reply
#18 | Posted by oneironaut
Stupid Whataboutisms are a disease with this one.
#29 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-17 03:46 PM | Reply
#30 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-17 03:46 PM | Reply
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