“Some of the mechanisms by which we catch these people in the first place have weakened in recent years,” says Currie. Usually, a crime is solved because “someone talks,” he explains. “But if any sort of trust or rapport between law enforcement and the community breaks down completely— as it has in many places—it makes it much harder to find who did it.”
DC residents have long had a contentious relationship with MPD, and the federal invasion is no doubt making it worse. “What Trump is doing is destroying relationships with cops and people who live here,” Currie says. If the administration really wanted to help lower the murder rate, he notes, it would address the low clearance rates. But to do that, you can’t just trade community work and sensitive policing for “those nine guys standing on the corner looking uncomfortable.”
By starving communities of the violence prevention, behavioral health services, and other investments that young people in particular need to flourish, Currie says, “We’re priming ourselves for another spike in crime.”
It makes more sense if you stop pretending this is about crime prevention (in a time when crime is at its lowest levels since I was in Middle School) and more about escalation.
Yeah...they think fundraising is a big deal. They just refuse to notice that these clowns blew a Harris campaign that had a BILLION dollars or look at that fact that Zohran was outspent by Cuomo by a significant margin and cleaned his clock.Rather than trying to win, the DNC has decided they'd rather profit off of continuing to lose.
Yeah...they think fundraising is a big deal. They just refuse to notice that these clowns blew a Harris campaign that had a BILLION dollars or look at that fact that Zohran was outspent by Cuomo by a significant margin and cleaned his clock.
The funny thing is, most of those "fundraisers" were frauds anyways. The DNC got ripped off hard while making sure to send us 25 texts an hour begging for cash.
In that case why not just tear-gas everyone so that he could walk across the street?or he TACO'd when Stephen Miller told him scary stories about black people enjoying themselves on the streets of DC.
I think this is a much better take on this Third Way thing![]()
Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
The craven reactionary centrists at Third Way are advising Democrats not to use the term LGBTQ, BIPOC, allyship, or intersectionality. They're erasing the entire language used to describe minority communities. https://www.thirdway.org/memo/was-it-something-i-saidbsky.app
Why do these people have the ear of any Democrats?
Possibly. But if you deleted from the USCHO political threads the words listed by Third Way, you'd shrink those threads by 20%.I think this is a much better take on this Third Way thing
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'? The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not...bsky.app
WTF is wrong with "Overton window"? Too pedantic/wonkish?I think this is a much better take on this Third Way thing
Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
I actually agree that Democrats should refrain from using most of these. And they already do! When was the last time a Senator said 'heteronormative'? The bigger problem is that orgs like Third Way are reinforcing this false, right-wing narrative. Dems can't stop doing something they're not...bsky.app
Pretty much. None of the "population" has a clue what it means and even with AI they're too stupid to look it up.WTF is wrong with "Overton window"? Too pedantic/wonkish?