Trump to DC： Crime Is a Choice ｜ 8⧸14⧸25
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Summary
Trump has taken decisive action with a promise to restore law and order in Washington, D.C. after a carjacking attempt on a woman who attempted to defend her boyfriend during a car theft attempt on the streets of the nation s capital.
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President Trump announced on Monday that he would be exercising his authority to federalize control of law enforcement in Washington, D.C.
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The move comes after the president threatened action in the wake of a brutal attack on a doge staffer while the young man attempted to defend his girlfriend during a carjacking.
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National Guard troops will supplement D.C. Metro Police in an effort to quell violent crime in the city.
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Americans are tired of hearing excuses for why the nation's cities feel dirty and unsafe when they already know how to solve these problems.
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Crime is a policy choice and Trump has taken decisive action with a promise to restore law and order to the nation's capital.
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The United States is the global hegemon, the most powerful country on the face of the earth, and Washington, D.C. is the seat of her empire.
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Throughout history, the condition of the imperial capital is a good barometer for the health of the civilization, and that doesn't speak well for the current state of America.
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In Japan or Singapore, an unaccompanied woman can walk the streets at night without fear.
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But in the capital of the United States, average people are regularly harassed, assaulted, and mugged.
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Everyone knows why this disparity exists and how to solve it, but political correctness has made the truth unspeakable.
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Ideally, crime is reduced by having a virtuous population with strong cultural expectations that exercise self-control.
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When virtue is not enough, a state that delivers swift and severe justice is the key.
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If laws aren't enforced, honest people quickly learn that they are fools for abiding by the rules,
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and marginal characters who otherwise would have stayed on the right side of the law decide to violate it.
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It's not enough to arrest lawbreakers and then return them to the streets a few hours later to terrorize the public.
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As Rudy Giuliani famously proved with broken windows policing in New York,
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the regular enforcement of laws that might otherwise seem minor removes a culture of permissibility
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So if we already know that regular enforcement and strong penalties work,
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why are Democrats choosing the opposite in cities that they run?
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Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of progressive narratives around all the evils of law enforcement,
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but ultimately they always come back to the same thing, which is racism.
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Crime statistics clearly show that black Americans commit a vastly disproportionate percentage of crime in the United States,
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which means that if the law is properly enforced, a much larger percentage of those incarcerated will have to be black.
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Democrats, and frankly most Republicans, are committed to never discussing this fact basically at any cost,
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That means that the only acceptable explanation for high black arrest and incarceration rates is a system that is racist at its core.
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Once the system has been declared racist, criminal justice reform becomes the only solution.
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Crimes still are disproportionately committed by black Americans because the underlying issue hasn't been addressed.
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So the only way to make the system look less racist is to stop enforcing the law.
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Steve Saylor has dubbed this the Ferguson effect,
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as police officers who fear becoming a national pariah simply stop policing black neighborhoods.
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Law enforcement is no longer present in the areas where crime is most likely,
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and officers are encouraged to overlook minor crimes to drive down arrest rates.
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and early release programs are championed to improve statistics on minority incarceration.
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This is more or less exactly what you would prescribe if you want to increase crime and reduce safety in any given city,
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but it does have the upside for bureaucrats and politicians of making it look like crime is either even or maybe going down slightly.
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On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz comes an unprecedented exhibition about one of history's darkest moments.
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that tell the powerful story of the Auschwitz concentration camp,
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and the underlying conditions that allowed the Holocaust to happen.
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I have had personal discussions with police officers who've explained this exact phenomenon.
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Law enforcement knows where most of the crime in the city is committed and by whom.
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But political tensions make discussing or resolving the issue a public relations nightmare.
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Instead, officers have told me that they simply ignore domestic violence or petty burglary calls in certain neighborhoods.
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Cops want to go home to their families at the end of the day.
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They don't want to become some instantly reviled racist if they happen to answer the wrong call while on duty.
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The number of incarcerated black Americans in prisons can go down,
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but deaths related to everything from traffic accidents to homicides goes up.
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Political priorities enacted in the name of the black community end up creating a more dangerous situation for the black community,
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During a press conference responding to Trump's initiative,
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the D.C. police chief, Pamela Smith, herself a black woman,
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was asked how the chain of command now worked for law enforcement in the nation's capital.
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This leads one to suspect that many police chiefs in America's most important cities
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haven't really been chosen for their ability to fight crime,
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but instead for the D.E.I. checkboxes which will placate political activists.
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If the authorities charged with maintaining our civilization under the tenets of gay race communism
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don't even have the vocabulary to grasp the basic concepts of law enforcement,
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then it's safe to assume that they'll fail at their task.
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I mean, look, it's already bad enough that these Democrat-run cities
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can't properly enforce the law on certain populations that are critical to their voting coalition,
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but the fact that they further have to elevate people because of that identity politics narrative
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and are actively committed not to applying the law to these demographics
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It's obviously only going to further degenerate the condition of the city.
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Donald Trump has taken on a difficult and complicated task.
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The bringing of law and order might itself be fairly straightforward,
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but the politics surrounding it are fraught with danger.
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For the president's plan to work, he'll need to ignore charges of racism or authoritarianism
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In an era where most politicians flee authority and responsibility,
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Donald Trump is accepting both of these things.
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I think this is also a smart move politically as well,
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because let's be honest, the Trump administration has just not had the best few months,
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especially with its base, and it really needs to shift the narrative.
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Looking strong on law and order has always been a place where Donald Trump is comfortable
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The Democrats have already shifted their narrative away from the war
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and other issues where they may have been gaining ground
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what are you talking about, who cares if you got jumped last week,
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and just all kinds of stuff that looks terrible to the average voter.
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So again, I think this looks like a politically smart
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he'll not have only returned dignity and safety to the capital of our great nation,
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which may shame other American cities into action.
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Some have compared Trump's gambit to that of Neb Bekely in El Salvador.
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The best lesson from that comparison is that success is its own argument.
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If Trump's takeover results in a radically safer capital,
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people will demand similar action in their own city.
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