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The Trump administration
elected in 2016
came in riding on a lie about American carnage in American cities.
This was also a period of dramatically declined crime rates and violent crime rates, in particular, across U.S. cities.
So, there is nothing here that is factual in terms of the pretext for the calls here.
What is consistent is Donald Trump’s use of racist rhetoric,
racist ideas, and the use of policing to enact a domestic policy agenda.

“Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover
After announcing the federal takeover of law enforcement in D.C. in the White House briefing room, President Trump painted a grim picture of the capital — including “roving mobs of wild youth” — that contrasts with crime figures showing D.C. reached a 30-year low in violent crime last January. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of African American studies and public affairs at Princeton University, says the move is an extension of Trump’s “use of racist rhetoric, racist ideas, and th…

Crime Keeps Falling. Here's Why. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/crime-statistics-washington-dc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p43#a250814p43

It could also be that Trump is a racist. Instead of just echoing chapters when language was used to paint with racist narratives.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b…

Trump's DC police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about crime
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. The Republican president has taken control of Washington’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital. Guard troops arrived at their Washington headquarte…

Australian Crime Stories
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Benny Johnson asks if Trump will give 'Big Balls' Medal of Freedom
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5448637-benny-johnson-dc-crime-trump/amp/

Major crisis in Russia: Crime is on the rise, fuel exports are declining | In Focus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/12/major-crisis-in-russia-crime.html

Right-wing media has embraced Trump’s violation of local control in Washington,
dismissing constitutional concerns about creeping authoritarianism
and embracing exaggerated depictions of the level of crime in the nation’s capital
(Washington’s violent crime rate fell sharply last year, though it remains higher than that of Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.)
MAGA influencers like Charlie Kirk have called for a “full military occupation” of other major cities.
Ms…

Rollout of Trump’s D.C. Crackdown Included Fox News Stars and Charts
Jeanine Pirro had a starring role in promoting the president’s federal takeover on TV, and Will Cain’s charts made a cameo.

When Criticism Becomes a Crime (Mike Brock/Notes From The Circus)
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/when-criticism-becomes-a-crime
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p30#a250914p30

The crime rate in DC is lower than at any other time in the last 30 years, but with potus ordering federal agents and U.S. military into DC, he is committing crimes and directing them to do so.
#USpol #DC #FreeDC

Violent crime rate drops in London, in a fresh blow for Rachel Reeves.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/violent-crime-plunges-london-homicide-rate-b1247078.html

Violent crime plunges 13% in London as capital's homicide rate less than Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen
Despite there being ‘tens of thousands of fewer victims,’ Mayor of London Sadiq Khan acknowledged that ‘one death and one crime will always be too many’

Soon to be the Gated Community of Trumpistan where the streets will be paved by homeless immigrants who will then be deported with gold grifted from MAGA sycophants buying whatever crap is being sold...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/trump-washington-dc-crime…

Trump zeroes in on federal takeover of DC as FBI patrols streets
President Donald Trump is ramping up efforts to curb crime in the nation’s capital on Monday as he threatens a federal takeover of Washington, DC, with plans for FBI agents to patrol the streets all while city officials largely remain deferential to him.

I mean… protected bike lanes as a double win? Sure!
“We’ve taken a strong and visible approach to the problem of speeding and reckless driving... That’s also why we’ve installed so many protected bike lanes. One of the goals is to prevent speeders from passing on the right.”

Mayor Cavalier Johnson: ‘A leader has to stand up and lead even if some residents are not happy’
Nearly four years into the Milwaukee Mayor’s job, Cavalier Johnson, at only 38, wears the mayor’s mantle like a favorite pullover as he talks policing, crime and housing in Milwaukee.

Arsehole-on-arsehole crime on an all-time high, proctologists say.

Who was arrested in Trump's D.C. crime emergency? We analyzed 1,273 records. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/09/14/trump-dc-crime-arrests-data-federal-takeover/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p38#a250914p38

"Trump's federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department has a 30-day limit unless Congress extends it — and the president indicated on Wednesday he'll push for a "long-term extension" in a crime bill that'll initially concern D.C. but will serve as a roadmap for other cities."
DC 24/7 federal patrols start: Religious leaders slam Trump crime crackdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-dc-national-guard-police-religous-leaders-photos

"possible suspects for modern crime stories" by WrongHands: https://wronghands1.com/2025/08/08/possible-suspects-for-modern-crime-stories/ 🙃

Now can we call him an authoritarian, dictatorial leader? No one can still deny that, right? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-crime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

"..arrestees included four vicars, a lawyer, a civil servant, a social worker, a mechanical engineer and the daughter of a Polish resistance fighter."
London police arrest over 40 supporters of Palestine Action – DW – 07/12/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/london-polic…

London police arrest over 40 supporters of Palestine Action
Protesters have gathered for a second straight week to support the banned Palestine Action. Its outlawing means support for the group is now a crime.

O que é que um monte de merda destes faz de férias em Lisboa?
Quem foi que deixou um monte de merda destes entrar em Portugal?
https://expresso.pt/sociedade/2025-07-14-fundacao-belga-pede-a-portugal-que-d…

Fundação belga pede a Portugal que detenha sniper israelita de férias em Lisboa

Organização apresenta queixa-crime no DIAP de Lisboa para que militar seja detido e alvo de inquérito por crimes de guerra, com base nas imagens que o próprio ‘sniper’ publicou na sua conta de Instagram

Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: Dayna told me you had enemies.
MELLANBY: I've been hiding here for a long time.
AVON: What was your crime?
MELLANBY: It wasn't a crime. But there's still a price on my head: three million credits.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/198…

🫧 Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-30/mexican-cartels-new-money-laundering-businesses-…

Mexican cartels’ new money laundering businesses: Cryptocurrencies, concerts and timeshares
Accusations from the United States Department of the Treasury reveal new forms of money laundering being used by organized crime

GTA-Crime: A Synthetic Dataset and Generation Framework for Fatal Violence Detection with Adversarial Snippet-Level Domain Adaptation
Seongho Kim, Sejong Ryu, Hyoukjun You, Je Hyeong Hong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08232

GTA-Crime: A Synthetic Dataset and Generation Framework for Fatal Violence Detection with Adversarial Snippet-Level Domain Adaptation
Recent advancements in video anomaly detection (VAD) have enabled identification of various criminal activities in surveillance videos, but detecting fatal incidents such as shootings and stabbings remains difficult due to their rarity and ethical issues in data collection. Recognizing this limitation, we introduce GTA-Crime, a fatal video anomaly dataset and generation framework using Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA5). Our dataset contains fatal situations such as shootings and stabbings, captured fro…

In Washington D.C. the National Guard arrived at their headquarters Tuesday
-- For many residents, the prospect of federal troops surging into neighborhoods represented an alarming violation of local agency.
It echoes uncomfortable historical chapters when politicians used racism to paint historically or predominantly Black cities and neighborhoods with bigoted narratives to shape public opinion and justify aggressive police action.

Trump's DC police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about crime
President Donald Trump's rhetoric in his federal takeover of Washington police echoes that of conservative politicians going back decades who've denounced American cities with majority non-white populations or progressive leaders as crime-ridden and in need of outside intervention. The Republican president has taken control of Washington’s law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation’s capital. Guard troops arrived at their Washington headquarte…

Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes
https://www.wired.com/story/mysterious-crime-spree-targeted-national-guard-equipment-stashes/

Mysterious Crime Spree Targeted National Guard Equipment Stashes
A string of US armory break-ins, kept quiet by authorities for months, points to a growing security crisis—and signs of an inside job.

Trump Deploys National Guard for D.C. Crime but Called Jan. 6 Rioters 'Very Special' (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-jan-6-dc-crime.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p1#a250813p1

ASPI researchers: Myanmar's online scam centers on the Thai border rose from 11 to 27 since 2021's military coup, holding an estimated 100K trafficked people (Rebecca Ratcliffe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-devel…

It's almost like POTUS is trying to distract us from something.
"Assessing DC's Violent Crime Trends"
https://open.substack.com/pub/jasher/p/assessing-dcs-violent-crime-trends

Izzy and I went for a walk at lunchtime in crime-ridden Washington, DC today, hoping that Izzy could sniff out some of that criminality. Didn't see or smell any crime, criminals, or federal agents. #DogsofMastodon #Mondog

'Cut off the head' — Ukrainian intelligence accuses 'Putin's favorite' brigade of another war crime: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/cut-off-the-head-ukrainian.html

crime: Rosenfeld crime network (1991)
A network of associations among suspects, victims, and/or witnesses involved in crimes in St. Louis in the 1990s. Data are derived from police records, via snowball sampling from five initial homicides. Left nodes are people, right nodes are crime events, and edges connect people to particular crimes events they were associated with. Metadata includes names, genders, and roles (suspects, victims, and/or witnesses).
This network has 1380 nodes…

Wow, I guess irony’s not dead.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates?page=with:block-68c1d48b8f084454b70cbf90#block-68c1d48b8f084454b70cbf90

Fact-Checking Trump's False and Misleading Claims About Crime in D.C. (Linda Qiu/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/politics/trump-dc-crime-data-fact-check.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p147#a250812p147

"Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining anti-terrorism initiatives."
Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-usaid-malawi-state-department-crime-sexual-violence-trafficking

Picking up a horn and not honking it feels like a crime!
#Taskmaster

Trump told this live on Fox News.
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.
#Trump #radicals

President claims US capital "overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals..."
Well, not until yesterday... But let's keep demanding the Epstein files instead. Don't lose focus.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-wash…

New Mexico governor declares state of emergency in rural county afflicted by crime, drug use (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/new-mexico-rural-crime-drugs-emergency-a73991647b941d8496ca45a480ef4361
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p105#a250813p105

I remember being outside of the Red Mosque in New Delhi. Some dalit boys, the underclass, were selling postcards in the park. Two cops showed up with batons and beat them. They ran. They would return. Police brutality does not stop crime. It only pleases cruel people.

Conspiracy to Commit: Information Pollution, Artificial Intelligence, and Real-World Hate Crime
Alberto Aziani, Michael V. Lo Giudice, Ali Shadman Yazdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07884

Conspiracy to Commit: Information Pollution, Artificial Intelligence, and Real-World Hate Crime
Is demand for conspiracy theories online linked to real-world hate crimes? By analyzing online search trends for 36 racially and politically-charged conspiracy theories in Michigan (2015-2019), we employ a one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) to predict hate crime occurrences offline. A subset of theories including the Rothschilds family, Q-Anon, and The Great Replacement improves prediction accuracy, with effects emerging two to three weeks after fluctuations in searches. Howe…

Skateboarding is not a crime!
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/

DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’
DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.

Ash prowling in Downtown Ithaca -- I post my photos to NextDoor #cats

Maggie Haberman Says Pushing Back in Trump Risky for Dems: 'There Is a Crime Problem Everywhere' (Tommy Christopher/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/maggie-haberman-says-pushing-back-on-trump-risky-for-dems-there-is-a-crime-problem-everywhere/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p86#a250813p86

Reducing Cartel Violence: The Mexican Dilemma Between Social and Security Spending
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Dieter Grass, Stefan Wrzaczek, Gian Maria Campedelli, Gernot Tragler, Gustav Feichtinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06509

Reducing Cartel Violence: The Mexican Dilemma Between Social and Security Spending
Organised crime in Mexico threatens societal stability and public safety, driving pervasive violence and economic disruption. Despite security investments and social programs designed in part to reduce involvement in crime, cartel power and violence continue to persist. This study evaluates existing policies and introduces a novel framework using optimal control theory to analyse cartel dynamics. Specifically, by modelling resource allocation between security measures and social programs, we id…

To Determine if Changing to White Light Street Lamps Reduces Crime - A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis of Crime Occurrence during the Relighting of Leeds, a UK City: #LightPollution

National Guard troops spotted in Washington DC as Trump launches crackdown on street crime (Louis Casiano/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/national-guard-troops-spotted-washington-d-c-trump-launches-crackdown-street-crime
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p33#a250813p33

There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …

Trump says he's deporting 'worst of the worst.' Data tells a different story
President Donald Trump has pledged to target "the worst of the worst" as he moves to deport millions of people from the U.S. But government data contradicts this narrative. As of June 29, 71.7% of people detained by ICE had no criminal convictions, and only a small fraction were classified as high-level threats. Research has consistently shown that immigrants, including those who have entered the country illegally, are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born citizens and that immigratio…

Good ol' boy Greg Gutfeld, the guy who says crime would disappear if women vanished
Steve Martin, Martin Short Call Out Recent Jimmy Fallon Guest | HuffPost Entertainment
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/martin-short-steve-martin-fallon-segment_n_68c4446ae4b0b3dca95e95e2?origin=home-whats-happening-unit

potus wants the federal government to take control of 61.4 square miles (159.03 square kilometers) of DC.
The same federal government that failed to maintain control of a single car (~119 sq. feet/11 sq. meters) being operated by Big Balls, is going to take control of an entire city.
Sure Jan.
Bluster and military cosplay aren’t going to make us forget his name is all over the Epstein files.

Trump threatens federal takeover of Washington DC after attack on ex-DOGE worker
Two 15-year-olds have been arrested in Washington for an attempted carjacking and beating of Edward Coristine, a prominent member of the Department of Government Efficiency. The incident happened early Sunday in Logan Circle. Police say a group of teenagers tried to carjack Coristine and his significant other. Coristine was attacked until officers intervened. The attack has renewed calls from President Donald Trump for federal control over Washington, citing crime concerns. Trump threatened to …

The White House has seized on two unrelated incidents of street crime
as a pretext for a federal government power grab
at a time when violent crime has in fact dropped across the country.
The attempted carjacking of Edward “Big Balls” Coristine in Washington DC
and a street brawl in Cincinnati
are the latest cause célebrè on the American right,
which has long supported Donald Trump’s plans for military and law enforcement crackdowns in largely Democratic c…

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating.
Random street crimes are being used as pretexts for repression.

A profile of Flock Safety, which operates 80K AI surveillance cameras across the US and hit a $7.5B valuation in March 2025, as it expands into US-made drones (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America
With more than 80,000 AI-powered cameras across the U.S., Flock Safety has become one of cops’ go-to surveillance tools. Now CEO Garrett Langley has both police tech giant Axon and Chinese drone maker DJI in his sights on the way to his goal: Preventing all crime in the U.S.

The fight to make D.C. safe and beautiful (Jeanine Pirro/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/12/jeanine-pirro-juvenile-adult-crime/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p148#a250812p148

"it feels silly to take what federal officers are doing in the city even a little bit seriously, because the fantasy of D.C. as some crime-addled hellhole is a deliberate invention. "
I Walked Through Trump’s D.C. Hellscape. It’s Now Clear What Exactly the Feds Are Doing Here.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/08/trumps-washington-dc-takeover-heres-what-the-feds-are-really-doing.htm

White House official confirms that the federal takeover of DC police department is expected to be in effect for 30 days
but added that this would be ‘subject to change’

Trump vows to ‘clean up’ DC crime
-- despite sharp drop in violence

Let's conclude the "checks&balances" of US democracy are truly gone, nobody can or will stop Trump in militarizing Washington DC. The rest of the world is watching the fascist dictator Trump in action.
Apparently city government is no longer relevant or in charge...Democrats in Congress don't lift a finger, they should walk out and obstruct everything in government they can....
#trump

'Buy a Pair': Sen. Kennedy Calls on Schumer, Jeffries to Man Up Against 'Tofu Mob' in Must-Watch Moment (Sister Toldjah/RedState)
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2025/08/14/sen-john-kennedy-rips-into-hakeem-jeffries-and-chuck-schumer-on-dc-crime-issue-n2192799
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p86#a250814p86

Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.
The FBI has begun dispatching about 120 of its agents in overnight shifts to help prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter,

Trump, who plans a news conference at the White House on Monday on this topic,
compared the forthcoming action against D.C. crime to his administration’s aggressive crackdown against illegal immigration at the southern border…

FBI dispatching agents to D.C. streets as Trump weighs calling National Guard
The unusual move comes as President Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.

During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed off a few charts that seemed to have some big mistakes. CEO Sam Altman called one a “screwup.”

@40zetrel@mastodon.social it is not a crime to be in the United States without documentation; it is a civil violation.
Thank you in advance for checking your facts before speaking (or voting) in any place at any time with bad info in the future.
Please consider it your patriotic duty!
I’m sure you wouldn’t want to damage the United States by spreading bad info, again.
🫡🇺🇸

Albany mayor: being undocumented in the U.S. is not a crime
Albany Mayor Kathy M. Sheehan said in a national television interview that it’s not a crime for immigrants to live in th

🐓 Online cockfighting thrives in Philippines despite ban and murders
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/philippines-online-cockfighting-gambling/
🆓

Online cockfighting thrives in Philippines despite ban and murders
Authorities estimate cockfight bettors are fueling an industry that generates millions of dollars in revenue each week.

EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country?
TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less.
The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime.
The radicals on the left are the problem.
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
EARHARDT: We have radicals on the right as well. How do we fix this country? TRUMP: I'll tell you something that's gonna get me in trouble but I couldn't care less. The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don't want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem.

Trump's D.C. crime claims don't match the data (Anna Spiegel/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/11/trump-dc-crime-rate-fact-check
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p109#a250811p109

Dangerous City du Jour - Whims of the Mad Despot: Four red states are worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/trump-chicago-crime-red-states-violent

Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here’s what the data shows. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-crime-data-federal-takeover/

⭐ Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/organized-crime-gold-trade-are-increasingly-connected-report-shows/

Organized crime & gold trade are increasingly connected, report shows
Latin American cartels once were masters of the drug trade, but spikes in prices led them into controlling a new venture.

To the extent that he is leading the country at all, potus is leading the country from an alternate reality.
“Despite Trump’s claims, there is no epidemic of homelessness or violent crime in the capital.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

Sure, police make domestic violence just to make Trump look bad:
“They said, ‘Crime’s down 87 percent.’
I said, no, no, no
—it’s more than 87 percent, virtually nothing.
And much lesser things,
things that take place in the home they call crime.
You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something.
If a man has a little fight with the wife,
they say this was a crime.
See?
So now I can’t claim 100 percent but we are.
…

Turns Out JD Vance Doesn’t Know What a War Crime Is - EUROPE SAYS
I am beginning to believe we are not being led by the Very Best People. From Politico:

Federal agents in Trump's crime crackdown set up checkpoint in popular D.C. nightlife area (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/national-guard-troops-washington-dc-trump-police-checkpoint-protesters-rcna224842
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p37#a250814p37

Violent crimes dropped 4.5 percent in 2024, FBI says – despite Trump’s claims of out-of-control crime | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/trump-fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2802577.html

Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety
— it’s about the Epstein files.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3lw4zwcbrmk2i

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety — it’s about the Epstein files.

DC police support Trump's federal takeover -- are Dems and the media clueless on crime? (Robby Soave/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5450183-trump-federal-takeover-dc-police/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p68#a250813p68

People he pardoned keep crimin'
As Trump claims to clean up crime, his past pardons haunt him
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/8/2342382/-As-Trump-claims-to-clean-up-crime-his-past-pardons-haunt-him

Trump says crime in D.C. is out of control. Here's what the data shows. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-crime-data-federal-takeover/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p74#a250811p74

Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, may deploy National Guard (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/11/trump-national-guard-dc-crime-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p31#a250811p31

I think the attack on Large Testicles was a false flag.
Trump threatens to ‘federalize DC’ but violent crime dropped 35 percent there in 2024, police say | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/trump-fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2802577.html

Trump nominates chief economist at rightwing Heritage Foundation
to lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
The nomination comes after Trump fired the BLS commissioner
Erika McEntarfer earlier this month
after the release of a weak jobs report.
Antoni has previously voiced concerns about revisions to the jobs data at BLS.
“There are better ways to collect, process, and disseminate data
– that is the task for the next BLS commissioner,
and only consiste…

US Capitol Police arrest 60 people after veterans demonstration (Annabella Rosciglione/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3441993/us-capitol-police-protest-arrests-60-people-veterans-demonstration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p1#a250614p1

Trump complained that domestic violence was being counted in the crime statistics,
which he claimed meant that the influence of his policy was not being seen as significant enough.
“They said, ‘Crime’s down 87%,’” the president claimed, not explaining who “they” were.
“I said, no, no, no. It’s more than 87%, virtually nothing.
And much lesser things, things that take place in the home they call crime.
You know, they’ll do anything they can to find something.

Does President Trump Want to Be Mayor, Too? (Jess Bidgood/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-mayor-washington-dc-crime.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p6#a250812p6

Trump's moves toward taking over Washington are unprecedented. Here's what the law says (Lindsay Whitehurst/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-crime-national-guard-police-13ba96454031352665e59ee67f678482
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p122#a250811p122

Trump orders federal law enforcement to patrol DC after Stephen Miller claims crime in capital ‘more violent than Baghdad’ | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-federal-law-enforcement-dc-crime-b2804113.html

MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau cheers on Trump for lying about crime statistics for blatantly political purposes:
"He's saying it is and that's all that matters."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/lan…

Lance Wallnau Cheers On Trump For Lying About Crime Statistics For Political Gain
MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau cheers on Trump for lying about crime statistics for blatantly political purposes: "He's saying it is and that's all that matters."

"Remember this the next time his administration claims that Kilmar Garcia is a wife-beater."
Trump Complains "Lesser Things" Like Domestic Abuse Shouldn't Be A Crime Because It Ruins His DC Numbers - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/trump-complains-lesser-things-like-domestic-abuse-shouldnt-be-a-crime-because-it-ruins-his-dc-numbers/

FBI moves to dispatch 120 agents to D.C. streets as Trump vows crackdown on crime (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/dc-crime-trump-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p53#a250810p53

A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/09/the-military-wasnt-built-to-fight-crime/6…

The Military Wasn’t Built to Fight Crime
A missile strike in the Caribbean and National Guard deployments are pushing the armed forces beyond their traditional mission.

U.S. Military Preparing to Activate National Guard in D.C. (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-dc-national-guard-crime-homelessness-89219282
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p41#a250811p41

Active shooter reported at Emory University with students told to ‘RUN HIDE FIGHT’: Live updates | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/atlanta-shooting-emory-college-university-updates-b2804642.html

Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones
At a news conference discussing the expansion of an existing crime suppression program in California,
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) went after P Donald Trump for the
“blatant hypocrisy” of surging National Guard troops and federal law enforcement agents to Democratic-led cities
when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.

Newsom called his expansion of a program tha…

Newsom: Crime is a larger problem in GOP-led areas than Democratic-led ones
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Trump’s law enforcement surge to Democratic-led cities is “blatant hypocrisy,” when, he says, there are higher crime rates in some Republican-run places.

Adjusting the timing of food assistance payments could affect crime rates
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-adjusting-food-payments-affect-crime.html

Charlie Kirk shooting: Trump blames 'radical left', but does not mention attacks on Democrats as search for suspect continues - follow live (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/10/donald-trump-jeffrey-epstein-tariffs-immigration-crime-us-politics-live-news-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p166#a250910p166

Trump Says Having 'a Little Fight With the Wife' Should Not Count as a Crime (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/trump-domestic-violence-crime-statistics.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p135#a250908p135

Trump has cut funding to combat crime in the District more than any other city in the US;
and DC already has more police per person and spends more on policing than any other major US city.
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/working-to-distract-from-epstein

Working To Distract From Epstein, Rising Prices, His Traitorous Fealty To Putin, Trump Starts Terrorizing Another American City
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How Trump's Crime Crackdown Muted Other Parts of D.C. Life (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/upshot/washington-dc-federal-crackdown-data.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lE8.TO0g.FZ0g6v_OfSOV&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250911/p168#a250911p168

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

Trump says he'll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-memphis-national-guard-federal-intervention-73a7747f02bdf111574cbe9cc59201dd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250912/p38#a250912p38

Trump’s administration simply will not stop setting up snitch lines,
urging federal staff to rat on each other for the crime of being anti-Trump
or in favor of the virtues of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
https://www.rollingstone.com/pol…

Trump’s Government Is a Den of Snitches, ‘Freaks,’ and Paranoid Tyrants
The Department of Health and Human Services is the latest agency to ask government employees to snitch about diversity practices.

Trump's Washington police takeover echoes history of racist narratives about urban crime (Matt Brown/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b
http://www.memeorandum.com/250812/p14#a250812p14

The Trump administration’s "crackdown on crime" in Washington has been propelled, in part, by an aggressive clampdown on guns,
with city and federal officials confiscating around 150 weapons since the president declared a crime emergency in the capital nearly three weeks ago.
“I’m pleased to report another 105 arrests have been made and 12 illegal guns taken off the streets of Washington, DC,”
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on social media on Thursday.
It …

Crime Crackdown in D.C. Shows Trump Administration’s Uneasy Relationship With Guns
If President Trump’s actions were intended to drive a law-and-order wedge between Democratic big-city leaders and their constituents, it has also exposed a division in his own coalition.

US brings hate crime charges against suspect in killing of Israeli embassy staffers (Andrew Goudsward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-brings-hate-crime-charges-against-suspect-killing-israeli-embassy-staffers-2025-08-06/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250806/p134#a250806p134

Crime down in every category in 2024, FBI report says (Anna Schecter/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-crime-report-2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p103#a250805p103

Crime is down. But Trump's authoritarian power grabs are escalating. (Justin Glawe/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-takeover
http://www.memeorandum.com/250811/p32#a250811p32