So let me get this straight…

[89th]

@Mik said in So let me get this straight…:

And how exactly would you get that message across nationally?

The payoff here, if there is one, will come from the public’s reaction. Even NPR could not find a majority of DC residents that opposed it today.

I mean, it was already trending in the right direction. For example, in San Fran in 2024, homicides and robberies had dropped like 30%, and continue to go down into this year.

For Chicago, same trend.

[Mik]

That doesn’t answer the question. The reason it went down in SF was a near revolution kicking the progressives out of law enforcement.

[89th]

Oh totally. My point is Trump's use of the military, humvees, machine gunes, and MRAPs... a little late to the party. The trend started like 2 years ago for most places, including DC.

[LuFins Dad]

In THE political town, you can manufacture whatever narrative you want and find select groups to support that narrative. I can tell you that I know A LOT of people that are happier in DC. We’re planning a day at the zoo and museums next week, and Karla and I are going to a show.

The people that I personally know that are bitching about it? All live in gated townhome and apartment communities in Reston, Arlington, Chevy Chase, Bethesda….

[89th]

Yeah but do the gates have machine guns on top?

[89th]

In October my next work trip might let me visit the zoo and some museums as well, and I'm looking forward not getting mugged unlike the zero times I was mugged when I used to visit DC weekly while running, or at the zoo, or at a museum or walking around the Capitol, or walking to the Nats games, or coming out of the bars, or leaving the Caps game, or taking photos at night. I look forward to the stream of zero assaults continuing, thanks to the military and their tanks!

[Mik]

@89th said in So let me get this straight…:

Oh totally. My point is Trump's use of the military, humvees, machine gunes, and MRAPs... a little late to the party. The trend started like 2 years ago for most places, including DC.

It's all about the messaging. Criminals need to be much more afraid of getting caught and punished.

[89th]

Agreed, personally I'm looking forward to the gallows making a comeback.

[LuFins Dad]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/29/trump-dc-police-crime-arrests/85864285007/

[Mik]

He raises a very good point about the attrition police forces experienced nationally after the Floyd fiasco and the resulting difficulty of attracting new candidates.

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in So let me get this straight…:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/29/trump-dc-police-crime-arrests/85864285007/

Wow, a Heritage Foundation Fellow wrote an opinion piece supporting a Trump action!

[Tom-K]

Really, it's only Black on Black crime. Should we care? Well, it seems President Trump cares. (Probably for the wrong reason--but he cares.) All good.

And that's why Trump is President and Kamila is some "Mrs." somewheres.