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2023-09-13 -Great Cultural Revolution

Washington DC so crime-ravaged locals are driving tiny distances instead of walking, are too scared to go out during the day, as woke city sees homicides spike by 29% in a YEAR

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

There have been 190 murders in Washington DC this year, putting the city on track this year to overtake 2021 - with 227 - as the bloodiest in two decades

Homicides are falling in New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia - and Baltimore is hopeful to have under 300 murders for the first time since 2015

Residents of the nation's capital say they are changing their routines, avoiding going out at night, and driving to avoid falling victim to crime

Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-13 02:11|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 The causes of DC's crime wave are complex to pinpoint.

This articles throw away line is why the issue exists. It is not complex; it is political. The people in charge cannot admit their policy and budget mistakes to fix the issue. maybe the Mayor should visit El Salvador and have a conversation how they had no murders for the last several hundred days.

Posted by Airandee 2023-09-13 08:13|| 2023-09-13 08:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Those whom the Gods would destroy...

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-09-13 11:48|| 2023-09-13 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 As a child we drove through Washington DC in '68 at night en route to Delaware. The night time 'full service attendant' was sitting in a car with the motor running and his wife behind the wheel -- he only got out when he saw two women and a kid!
...Not a glorious impression of the capitol but it was the summer of riots.

Posted by magpie 2023-09-13 12:28|| 2023-09-13 12:28|| Front Page Top

#4 I lived in Arlington, VA in 1968, and we had a 13th floor apartment at the River House facing the entire DC skyline. I watched the smoke rise from the King assassination race riots and the burning of the Georgia Avenue corridor from my bedroom in disbelief. The Virginia State Police closed the 14th, Memorial and Key Bridge accesses with road-blocks and no vehicles with DC plates driven by black youth were permitted into Virginia. There was some local outcry at first but they simply didn't care! Oddly, not a single fire or commercial storefront was damaged as a result.

Johnson deployed federal troops rather quickly and that ended it: (Wike cite)- ..."On Friday, April 5, President Johnson invoked the Insurrection Act of 1807 and dispatched 11,850 federal troops along with 1,750 D.C. Army National Guardsmen to assist the overwhelmed D.C. police force.[16] Marines mounted machine guns on the steps of the Capitol and Army soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Regiment guarded the White House. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, North Carolina and 6th Cavalry Regiment from Fort Meade, Maryland were among the principal federal forces sent to the city. At one point, on April 5, rioting reached within two blocks of the White House before rioters retreated. The occupation of Washington was the largest of any American city since the Civil War.

Federal troops and National Guardsmen imposed a strict curfew, worked riot control, patrolled the streets, guarded looted stores, and provided aid to those who were displaced by the rioting. They continued to remain after the rioting had officially ceased to protect against a second riot and further damage."

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-09-13 12:52|| 2023-09-13 12:52|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ And if they had to wait for the ammo distro and chow, no problem. They arrived with their own basic load.

As I was......told.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-13 13:47|| 2023-09-13 13:47|| Front Page Top

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