Trump’s D.C. Takeover Drives Crime Down…And Even Democrats Notice

Trump’s D.C. Takeover Drives Crime Down…And Even Democrats Notice

High profile Democrats have been freaking out about President Trump’s takeover of policing functions in the District of Columbia. There’s just one tiny little problem: Trump’s takeover is working and reducing crime.

The Democrats have been losing their minds about President Donald Trump’s takeover of law enforcement in Washington, D.C. You even had people like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) trying to downplay crime in the city, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claiming it wasn’t an emergency, and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) trying to argue that Trump “owned” a murder the day after the president formally announced he was taking action. People talk about Trump setting a trap for them to fall into to defend crime, but it’s truly that they are this dumb that they do this.

But most people aren’t buying the Democrat pitch – they know there’s a problem with crime in the city. Even the leftist protest in D.C. on Saturday which was focused on this issue didn’t draw many people. Probably because If you live in the area, you know crime is a reality.

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There have been more than 380 total arrests since the start of the operation 11 days ago.

In total…
– 59 firearms have been seized.
– Over 160 illegal aliens have been arrested, including known gang members and those with additional charges: assault, kidnapping, burglary, larceny, commercialized sexual offenses, smuggling illegal drugs like heroin, and more.

Last night 22 multi-agency teams were deployed throughout all 7 districts in D.C. There were more than 1,950 participants in last night’s operations.

That sounds like a lot of action in a short time. You would think flooding the streets with law enforcement presence would have an effect – it tends to discourage bad actors.

How does that compare to what had been going on before the Trump move?

Here’s what the D.C. Police Union is saying.

The D.C. Police Union was supportive of the Trump move – they knew crime was a crisis because their people deal with it every day. They also want to eliminate legislation they feel has been tying their hands. But once again, just as with the border, it seems what was needed to make a change was a new president with the will to get the job done.

(Hat tip: Director Blue.)

And one of the dirty secrets elected Democrats don’t want you to hear is that people in D.C. are noticing the huge drop in crime…even Democrats.

“A lot of our friends are in the media and also Democrats that worked on Joe Biden’s campaign, that worked on other campaigns that are saying, ‘Yeah, I’d like to feel safe walking around this city.’ If the federal government can be a positive partner in keeping the street safe while again forming a partnership with the DC police and not taking over, then at least the people I’ve spoken with that live in DC, day in, day out, see this as a positive step.”

“The Washington Post took a poll late April, early May. 91% of Washington residents say crime is a problem.”

“This is one thing that I think Democrats have gotten so wrong about crime.”

“There are stark divides among lines of race and income in the poll with black residents and lower income residents significantly more worried about crime than white residents and those with higher incomes.”

Let’s talk about that “positive partner” blather.

As shown above, the Trump Administration and other Republicans have no trouble working with police and police unions to reduce crime. That’s been shown time and time again.

Who Trump, Republicans and police can’t work with as “positive partners” to reduce crime are social justice-infected Democrats, because they don’t want to reduce crime. Some cadres believe high crime rates are key to radicalizing minorities and fomenting revolution against capitalism. There are others that believe that “whiteness” and “structural racism” mean that no black person should ever be punished for any crime against any white person. There are others that want to completely defund the police so they can rake off all police funding for their own graft and left-wing causes. Still others refuse to deport any illegal aliens, even rapists and murderers, because they still believe that amnestied illegal aliens are their key to achieving permanent electoral majorities.

None of these people can be trusted partners in reducing crime because none of them want to reduce crime. Or, to put it ever-so-slightly more charitably, none of them are willing to implement policies known to reduce crime because none of those policies would benefit the Democratic Party.

(Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)