We could do the UK thing and arrest folks for carrying gardening tools.
www.theguardian.com
But we both know the country is too divided on gun regulation for that to be a viable solution any time soon. To call for that now is, IMO, an empty gesture.
But, there's a new armed gang terrorizing the residents of DC. They even wear paramilitary gear and go by the acronym "ICE". They are known for accosting the public in masks, armed violent assaults, kidnapping and other thuggish behavior. Despite numerous videos documenting this behavior, the regime has refused to take any action to address it.
^^^ Commentary doesn't get much dumber than that.
We could do the UK thing and arrest folks for carrying gardening tools.
Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon
Except every post of yours. At least you're consistent!
You're welcome to tackle post 27 if you think you're up to it.
Give him a chance. I am sure it will get dumber over the next few weeks as crime drops in DC. We gone 9 days without a murders. That is just vexing the Democrats to no end.
I see that you actually don’t address the issue. But hey, at least you are a semi-safe serf.
How many of those cities are governed by democrats? The color of the state doesn't matter much, it's the leadership and the policing done in the city that matters. Memphis and Nashville are run by democrats, New Oleans is run by democrats. Jackson MS is run by democrats. Jackson, Memphis, Shreveport,New Orleans, also have a majority black population which tends to voted democrats for city leadership positions. It's the makeup of the city more than the state when it comes to individual cities and crime and how the city government react.
GOP states sending troops to DC: How their cities' crime rates compare
Six GOP states have agreed to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C.www.newsweek.com
Tennessee:
At least two Tennessee cities had higher rates of violent and property crime than Washington, D.C., last year. Memphis reported 15,338 violent crimes last year, including 249 cases of murder and non-negligent manslaughter, according to the FBI's Crime Data Explorer. The city also recorded 42,305 property crimes. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department reported 7,857 violent crimes in 2024, more than Washington, D.C., but recorded fewer murders, with 102. Nashville also logged 31,521 property crimes, a higher total than the nation's capital.
Louisiana:
New Orleans recorded 2,543 crimes against people last year, including 124 murders as well as hundreds of assaults, rapes and robberies. Police also logged 14,079 property crimes, such as burglaries and thefts, for a total of 16,622 crimes in 2024 compared with 22,376 in 2023. In Shreveport, one of Louisiana's northern cities with higher crime rates, police recorded 2,151 violent crimes in 2024, including 47 murders, according to the FBI's Crime Data Explorer. The city also reported nearly 7,000 property crimes.
South Carolina:
Columbia, South Carolina's capital, has the largest reported violent crime in the state, with 1,113 reported last year, 14 of which were murders. The city saw 4,673 property crimes, according to the FBI's Crime Explorer Data.
Mississippi:
While the FBI Crime Explorer Data did not have information on Jackson, in 2024, the local police reported 111 homicides.
Seems to me these Republican Governors should concentrate on reducing violent crime within their own state jurisdictions.
A novel idea..... Trump should take the federal money he is wasting on having the military patrol Washington D.C. and use those taxpayer funds to hire more D.C. Metropolitan police officers. Military troops do not receive training in policing.
It is 100% a commentary on Britain. Folks there are so scared, that they want to ban pointed kitchen knives.
www.independent.co.uk
hahahahahahahahahaha
It is 100% a commentary on Britain. Folks there are so scared, that they want to ban pointed kitchen knives.
Research points at the one change needed to knives to curb crime
A ban on kitchen knives with a pointed end was being considered
There's no excuse for not being in favor of cleaning up our American cities, whether red or blue. The left has a bad habit of denying they have a crime problem in blue cites. They are always claiming the crime rate is falling. So why hasn't it gone away after all the years of declining crime? We all know why, they fudge the numbers in a variety of ways. Plea bargains, liberal prosecutors who either don't charge some crime or charge more violent crimes as lesser offenses. The cities in America with the most crime are mostly blue. Doesn't matter the state they are in because it is the city government that determines the law and order in the city. The other problem is economic opportunity and cities where the demographics show a high percentage of black citizens tend to have a higher poverty, higher crime and significant gang violence. Those things are not good for business. Not for the ones already there and not for attracting new businesses that provide more opportunities. These are the factors that blue cities don't seem able to rectify. Making the cities safe for the law abiding people that live there, black, white, brown of whatever should be job one for city leaders. The current presence in D.C. of national guard troops has allowed more city law enforcement to concentrate on crime, serious crime and the results have been dramatically lower crime as more arrest have been made over the last week of so. Instead of embracing the lower crime, the democrats are making ridiculous accusations of their favorite claims, fascism, threats to democracy, taking away people rights.I posted this in another, related thread, but I think it's worth posting here, too. There's a problem with comparing city murder rates as not all cities have the same economic demographics. Chicago has more higher income neighborhoods than, say, Memphis, and since violent crime is lower in such areas, it lowers Chicago's overall murder rate.
From an AI search on the highest murder rates by city neighborhood, there's this:
IMO, I think extreme action in any of these neighborhoods should be considered, provided, of course, that action is itself legal. But for the life of me I can't understand why anyone is satisfied with the status quo.