{"id":28,"date":"2025-08-20T11:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/just-how-safe-is-washington-dc\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:20:02","slug":"just-how-safe-is-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/just-how-safe-is-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Safe is Washington, D.C.?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinions differ<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D\u2013NY, claimed<\/a>, \u201cI walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning \u2026 And I feel perfectly safe.\u201d He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as \u201cfull of it,\u201d but, of course, Schumer doesn\u2019t go anywhere<\/a> without his security detail. In a similar vein, D.C. Councilmember Charles Allen called<\/a> the federalization of law enforcement \u201cunnecessary, unwarranted,\u201d and the D.C. Council emphasized that crime rates are at \u201cthe lowest rates we\u2019ve seen in 30 years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John Lott goes on to argue that "D.C.\u2019s murder rate ran 169 percent higher than Louisiana\u2019s, the deadliest state, and an astonishing 523 percent higher than that of the average state."<\/span><\/p>\n

Lott is one of those who invariably talks sense in stark contrast to our political enemies. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Dems are a contemptible bunch. I could easily list ten reasons. Two near the top are their breathtaking mendacity and their casual attitude toward criminality. And they lie about both.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Opinions differ.   On a podcast last week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D\u2013NY, claimed, \u201cI walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning \u2026 And I feel perfectly safe.\u201d He dismissed Republican concerns about safety as \u201cfull of it,\u201d but, of course, Schumer doesn\u2019t go anywhere without his security detail. In a similar vein, … Continue reading “Just How Safe is Washington, D.C.?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-current-affairs","category-political-ponerology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}