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https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/dc-home-rule-madhouses-and-choices

command staff is also accused of changing the crimes in the databases to things like “felony assault,” which is not a category tracked in databases or reported to FBI. it’s just defined out of sight and out of mind.

when the police are sidelined and compromised and the mayor and city council are either complicit or ignorant, it’s not a radical idea that you need some adults in the room. the basic safety of citizens and their property is the highest purpose of government. it’s the whole point.

in the 1930’s or 1950’s, this sort of robbing, stealing, and murder would have been met with massive, immediate, and severe response.

no one would have said “differential impact” or “poor wittle baby wobber who doesn’t know better,” they would have scooped them up or shot them down and prison or morgue would have been the destination list. ...

13 year old kids in DC brazenly kill and steal then look right at cops and say “you can’t do anything to me, i’m a minor.” and they are often right. it’s a slap on the wrist. this leniency is repaid with a punch in the face.

they will keep doing this until consequences stop them. ...

this interminable game of "punch, no punchbacks" where a totalitarian and authoritarian left gets to hit everyone else while playing the victim is over.

the age of the crybully has ended. ...

people have lost sight of the fact that life can just be simple, sane, and reasonable, that politics need not join us at the breakfast table nor in our dating lives or schools.

i do not remember a single instance of politics in my whole elementary education and certainly not any sort of sex and sexual identity talk. as far as we were aware, teachers did not even have personal lives. for all we knew, they got wheeled into closets and plugged in to recharge or hung upside-down like bats until morning. and that was good.

even high school was absent politics and college mostly so. no one was ramming doctrine down your throat.

you could joke about race and gender. we were friends. and that was good. ...




... Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with
undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We
were not studying politics - we were studying development. Our question was
clinical, not political: "What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced
by adherence to orthodoxy?"
We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly
endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes...
Seventy-eight percent of students told us they self-censor on their beliefs
surrounding gender identity; 72 percent on politics; 68 percent on family values.
More than 80 percent said they had submitted classwork that misrepresented their
views in order to align with professors...
To test the gap between expression and belief, we used gender discourse a
contentious topic both highly visible and ideologically loaded. In public, students
echoed expected progressive narratives. In private, however, their views were more
complex...
Perhaps most telling: 77 percent said they disagreed with the idea that gender
identity should override biological sex in such domains as sports, healthcare, or
public data - but would never voice that disagreement aloud...

77% thinks A and yet everyone says “B.”

this is how a minority rules a majority.

and this stretches far beyond the university.

blue states and cities are cancel culture societies where the "inclusive progressives" will gang tackle and silence anyone who disagrees with them.

to even open your mouth in opposition requires being ready for an instant fight.

that's the point. it's how they preserve the illusion that everyone agrees with them: they simply make it so unpleasant to express a differing opinion that large swathes of the population are cowed into silence.

this creates an abilene paradox where the fact that many people disagree cannnot easily be discovered and further causes people to publicly falsify their preferences to avoid attack and "stay in the group."

it's the asch conformity experiment. ...

honest speech is the revolution that overturns their regime.

Misc says

Probably wanna hold Obama in solitary under suicide watch...and make damn sure the cameras are working.

You mean like Epstein? BTW, what happened to him and his files?

They have been Soros Fecal Impacterated and Netflixed, being lofted far beyond their highest level of incompetency to throw spanners into the works. Sabotage by its own name. You will be mugged as a sacrifice on the alter of DEI idiocy.

Maybe it's part of Trump's strategy. He will be affirmed according to already active laws, then will proceed to duplicate the strategies elsewhere.

Patrick says

HeadSet You're right:

Law of Averages strikes again!

Dem cities won’t change. Democrats are too dumb and the ones that are smart refuse to correct the dumb ones save for the outlier voices that the Dems don’t listen to like Bill Maher and Alan Dershowitz.

I spent the last week on Yahoo news comments being called stupid, ignorant, racist, blind, etc. all for having the temerity to say that dropped charges by a law enforcement agency, by a prosecutor, or by a court are not indicative of guilt or innocence. The very loud claim right now is that there is clearly malfeasance by ICE since they drop charges on most of those arrested for obstruction. This is factually false and everyone involved in criminal Justice knows it including defense attorneys, public defenders, and left leaning judges. But those individuals remain silent.

And I get called stupid. I never ever want to hear about how Dems are more educated. I don’t care if they have a degree if it leads to them claiming false things, even when factual information to the contrary is shoved in their face and rammed down their throat. Democrats are stupid and will literally vote themselves to be murdered under the right circumstances.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Democrats are too dumb and the ones that are smart refuse to correct the dumb ones

The ones who are smart are the grifters. The dumb ones are the useful idiots that keep the gravy train going.

HeadSet says

You may want to check that. Generally, "assault" is the threat while "battery " is the contact. Pulling a truncheon and waiving it in your face it assault, hitting you with it is battery.

Correct, at least in Texas. Just showing a weapon is assault. Concealed carry permits are not required here but if you take the class you learn all about that and more.

Ceffer says

They have been Soros Fecal Impacterated and Netflixed, being lofted far beyond their highest level of incompetency to throw spanners into the works. Sabotage by its own name. You will be mugged as a sacrifice on the alter of DEI idiocy.

I believe one "Police Chief" in a major city in the news recently was the former Diversity Officer with no other prior LEO experience. Not even processing evidence into a locker desk job type stuff.

Maybe DC

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-slashes-dc-gun-permit-wait-list-violent-crime-crackdown/

President Donald Trump’s sweeping law-and-order crackdown in Washington, D.C., is delivering a major win for law-abiding residents seeking the right to protect themselves.

The president’s Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force has slashed the city’s concealed carry and firearm registration wait times from months down to mere days, all without changing local gun laws.

They need someone like America's sheriff Polk County sheriff Grady Judd there in Washington DC.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14997229/anti-trump-account-dc-crime-wave-backfires.html

Anti-Trump internet star's attempt to debunk DC crime spiral ends in disaster

A viral internet account known for posting about Washington DC was ridiculed online after its attempt to prove 'crime isn't that bad' backfired massively.

Washingtonian Problems, an anti-MAGA account that focuses on DC's issues, asked its followers to post positive traits about the ailing city to 'push back' against Trump.

However, the account was quickly inundated with comments from locals that only served to prove that Trump's law enforcement takeover is warranted.

The X account wrote: 'Hey DC, let’s push back against the negative narrative about our city. Share why you love our beautiful home and help show the world the real DC.'

Testimonials came in thick and fast from people who had been the victims of serious crimes - who were happy that the National Guard are being deployed.

'I've been held up at gunpoint, had my car broken into 3 times, and had my bike stolen. My credit card has been skimmed too many times to count and I can't send my kids to public school here because they're a joke,' wrote Bret Manley, a children's book author based in the D.C. area.

Multiple people wrote that they or people they knew have been robbed or mugged in front of police officers who declined to intervene.

'My car was broken into. One friend had a car stolen from in front of his place, another was carjacked at gun point. I’ve had to assist someone who was shot while I was just trying to drunkenly make my way home from a bar,' another person wrote. 'F*** you. Thank god for the new enforcement.'

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crooks-and-cooks-thursday-august

One suspects the Times’ editors worry the DOJ is right, and a stinky crime stats scandal will soon emerge from the DC sewer system.

“I don’t think the crime stats in DC are trustworthy,” said Gregg Pemberton, Chairman of the DC Police Union, which represents 3,000 rank-and-file cops. Now the DOJ is investigating the capital’s creative crime accounting. ...

This isn’t the first cooked-books scandal over crime stats.

In the 1990s, New York City was investigated for crime-numbers wrangling in what became known as the “CompStat Scandals” (named for the city’s “innovative” new crime database system). But beyond some minor political embarrassment and internal reassignments, nobody was ever punished or even prosecuted. Well, nobody except for Adrian Schoolcraft, the whistleblower cop, who paid the price. He was forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward after exposing the manipulation. He sued, and the city finally settled for about $600,000— but the whistleblower was punished, not the corrupt supervisors he secretly recorded.

Once again, Trump has maneuvered Democrats into picking the worst possible side of the issue. This time things are going to be different. In New York’s CompStat scandals, the union circled the wagons and punished whistleblowers like Adrian Schoolcraft. Now, in DC, the union itself is the whistleblower. That changes everything.

Wow, they really did put that police officer in a psych ward for exposing police misconduct:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/nyregion/officer-who-disclosed-police-misconduct-settles-suit.html

The federal suit, which included allegations of a quota system at the Police Department, rampant misconduct in the taking of crime reports and a culture of retaliation against whistle-blowers, was filed in 2010 and had been about to go to trial.

In the suit, Officer Schoolcraft claimed his civil rights had been violated during an arrest on Oct. 31, 2009, and that he was kept for six days at a psychiatric ward at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. The arrest and hospitalization were ordered, he said, by his bosses as retaliation for his disclosures, which were first publicized in The Daily News.

That is Soviet type shit.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/causation-tuesday-august-26-2025

Yesterday, President Trump signed five new executive orders. Three were focused on Democrat kryptonite: crime— both in DC and the rest of the country. The New York Times reported the story under a headline subjected to the editorial shrink-ray: “Trump Signs Orders Aiming to End Cashless Bail.” They weren’t just about cashless bail, but whatever.

To be fair, two of the President’s three crime orders did relate to so-called “cashless bail,” one of the dumbest euphemisms that crime-happy Democrats have ever squirted into the public’s tired eyes. One of Trump’s orders ended the practice in DC, the other ordered agencies to cancel federal grants going to any jurisdiction still using “cashless bail.”

It is politically brilliant. “Cashless bail” is the least defensible and most destructive criminal justice concept since the country’s founding. Trump’s practically daring Democrats to defend cashless bail.

Based on the Times article, they are taking the bait.

In its historic sense, ‘bail’ is a contract between an accused and the state. The practice reaches back to medieval England. In that time period’s version of ‘criminal justice reform,’ sheriffs and courts generously allowed arrested defendants to pledge money or property in exchange for freedom, on the condition that they return to face justice or lose their stake.

The previous alternatives were: wait in prison. Thus, bail became an early compromise between the presumption of innocence and the public’s interest in ensuring dangerous offenders did not vanish into the countryside.

The idea endured for centuries: bail let the accused go free while giving the court a tangible guarantee of return, the necessary “skin in the game” that made the system work. In recent years, though, progressives argued bail was conceptually unfair, since people who can afford bail can “buy liberty,” but people who spent all their money on their last fentanyl hit just languished in jail.

Missing from the discussion is anything about fairness to victims. After all, victims are also promised their day in court. But “cashless bail” makes that promise optional, depending on whether the perpetrator feels like showing up that day.

Many Democrat-run jurisdictions either deleted bail altogether or for broad categories of crimes, without providing any equally binding substitute. Criminal defendants often walk free, despite repeated arrests, without posting any collateral. So there is no real penalty for skipping court besides a future warrant to appear in court.

In short, progressives stripped away the incentive structure that since medieval times had ensured appearances, claiming that compliance could reliably flow from goodwill alone.

What was once a functional trade —freedom for security— has been hollowed out, leaving a system that virtually guarantees absenteeism. The term “cashless bail” falsely implies some new-fangled kind of non-cash bail, like Venmo or bitcoin, but that’s wrong. Progressives replaced bail with nothing. Their new policy is really just “no bail.” ...Polling consistently shows Americans are uneasy with the notion of repeat offenders walking free without any stakes in the game. Nowadays, everyone has stories about criminals being arrested in the morning and back on the street by afternoon. Even people generally sympathetic to criminal-justice reform instinctively recoil from that, which is why they play all the word games.

So when the Times dutifully wrote that “studies do not support Trump’s claims that cashless bail leads to more crime” —studies!— they walked right into the trap. Instead of shifting the debate to fairness or systemic inequality, they’re forced to defend a weak phrase — “cashless bail” — that already sounds unserious and soft.

It’s an argument framed entirely on Trump’s terms: crime, safety, victims, repeat arrests.

That’s the brilliance: Trump is daring Democrats to argue for cashless bail, knowing the public hears that as for criminals, and against victims. And the Times, by editorial shrink-raying and hair-splitting over crime statistics, just amplified the invitation.

https://slaynews.com/news/dc-enjoys-12th-consecutive-murder-free-day-trump-crime-crackdown/

Pirro credited Trump’s decision to deploy federal agencies and seize temporary control of the Metropolitan Police Department with reshaping public safety in the nation’s capital.

“D.C. was one of the most violent cities in the world, but for President Trump coming in and bringing in our federal partners … we’ve got a unified force of people and law enforcement who were going into the crime-ridden areas and making a difference,” Pirro said.

She pointed to the homicide-free streak as proof:

“So far this year, we’ve had 101 homicides.

“But for the last 12 days, nothing.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1960409340352860523

WOW. Iris Tao, a White House Correspondent, THANKS President Trump for cracking down on D.C. crime after revealing she'd been robbed and pistol-whipped outside her apartment.

"Mr. President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now... Thank you for now making D.C. safer for us, our families, and my baby on the way."

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1960395286309634318

Things are about to get real.

Trump says they are going to seek the death penalty for anyone who commits murder in DC.

He says this is a “strong preventative”.

If this was the standard nationwide, murder rates would plummet.

DC will be the blueprint.

How about giving all violent black criminals the choice to be deported to Liberia, with no re-entry of the US possible?

Would save a ton of money, and is reasonably humane.

Liberia would accept them for, say, $10K per prisoner.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/burning-man-ethos-friday-august-29

Yesterday, the Hill ran an astonishing story headlined, “Newsom deploys new crime-fighting teams across California amid Trump crackdown.” But! Just ten minutes ago, they were swearing crime rates were down, and complaining that crime-fighting surges were authoritarian excess and more policing just resulted in more crime. Not today, though. What’s changed?

The Hill’s story concluded with this painfully obvious point: “This move by Newsom, who is expected to make a presidential bid in 2028, could be an attempt to improve the public image of Democrats towards fighting violent crime.”

Could it be? You think? ...

The contradiction is so blatant that it’s comical: one week, prosecuting shoplifting is racist oppression; the next, it’s “responding to the community.” The crime statistics didn’t change. The political statistics changed. Trump successfully seized the crime issue, and Democrats can’t afford to leave him holding it alone.

That actually happened:

https://babylonbee.com/news/7-radical-ideas-to-make-our-cities-safer

With violent crime continuing to plague American cities, the time has come for truly radical measures. Here are seven ideas for extreme changes to make our cities safer:

Have highly trained guys with guns patrol dangerous parts of the city to protect innocent people: They could even wear like a badge so people know who they are.

Take the violent people you arrest and keep them in some sort of building away from other people: It's crazy, but it just might work.

If someone gets arrested a dozen times, they actually have to stay in the building away from people: Extreme, we know.

Get a billionaire orphan whose parents were killed by a criminal to dress up in a cool outfit and protect the city: Brilliant.

Appoint judges who have passed some kind of exam to prove that they know about the laws: Revolutionary idea.

If someone stops a violent criminal, don't arrest that person: Whoa. Total game-changer.

Bring back the gallows: Now we're talking.

https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/7-charged-deadly-mag-mile-burglary

Chicago police arrested and charged seven men in connection with a smash-and-grab burglary that turned deadly last week.





A group crashed a pickup truck into the Louis Vuitton store on Michigan Avenue before 5 a.m. Thursday, Sept 11, according to the Chicago Police Department. The group fled in multiple vehicles with merchandise from the store, but they left the truck at the store.

One of the fleeing vehicles, a Kia Stinger, hit a Honda CR-V, killing the driver inside the other car, according to police. The county medical examiner identified the victim as a 40-year-old man from Skokie.

https://slaynews.com/news/father-running-sheriff-killing-predator-caught-raping-his-daughter/

Father Running for Sheriff After Killing Predator Caught Raping His Daughter

An Arkansas father accused of killing the man charged with raping his 14-year-old daughter is now running for sheriff.

Aaron Spencer, who faces a second-degree murder charge, said the legal system “failed” his family by prosecuting him instead of protecting his child.

Spencer announced his campaign for sheriff in Lonoke County on Saturday in a video posted to Facebook.

“I’m the father who acted to protect his daughter when the system failed,” Spencer said.

“Through my own fight for justice, I have seen firsthand the failures in law enforcement and in our circuit court.

“And I refuse to stand by while others face these same failures.”

Spencer said his campaign is about restoring public trust and ensuring law enforcement defends families in moments of crisis. ...

Court documents reveal that Spencer confronted 67-year-old Michael Fosler last October after discovering his daughter was missing and spotting her inside Fosler’s truck.

Fosler had already been charged with grooming and sexually abusing the teen.

Spencer allegedly forced Fosler’s vehicle off the road before shooting him.

Prosecutors charged Spencer with second-degree murder, despite the fact that Fosler was out on bond at the time for multiple felony charges related to the case.

Spencer’s wife, Heather, launched an online fundraiser, calling the charges against her husband “outrageous.”

“Our underage daughter had been targeted, groomed, and ultimately raped by the boyfriend of a family friend,” she wrote.

“We let the justice system do its job.

“The monster who hurt our child was charged quickly, but released even faster on a $50k bond.

“He was awaiting court in December for several felonies in relation to what he did to our child.”

She added, “My child would not have come home if my husband hadn’t found her.”

Spencer’s campaign announcement drew widespread support online.

“Proud to call this man my father!” his son, Malachi Spencer, wrote.

“If I could vote for you a million times, I would,” another supporter added.

“I will stand with you as a Veteran and a father!

“Bring Veterans and Fathers together, we need to protect our babies!” wrote a third.

Spencer is scheduled for a pre-trial hearing on December 16, with his trial set to begin January 26, 2026.