Socialist countries are doing better at keeping their crime rates down than the US. Perhaps we need MORE socialism. In that, the Dems have failed. But most of the 3rd world has higher crime rates, the US is close to the global average.
A judge give the Trump administration until 6:30pm to align its emergency police measures with the law. Let's see if the Trump administration just ignores it like every other court order. Under the order Terrance Cole will be a liaison to the DC government but not replace the D.C. police commissioner. DOJ has until 6:30 p.m. to rewrite order on how it directs DC police https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/washington-dc-trump-police-lawsuit-08-15-25
DC’s fake crime stats are even worse than you think… The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district’s crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed. Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to “distort crime statistics” by “downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be ‘fewer’ felonies in the statistics.” She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public.
Let's see what the courts have clearly stated. Trump administration can continue to direct DC police but not install a new chief https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/washington-dc-trump-police-lawsuit-08-15-25