Crime beat: Dems’ Foolish DC-Policing Fury

“Democrats in Washington, D.C., are furious — not because violent crime was spiraling out of control, but because President Donald Trump did something to stop it,” marvels the Federalist’s Brianna Lyman. A Washington Post poll shows roughly 80% of residents oppose Trump sending in the National Guard, but more than 70% of those polled are Democrats, “whose reflex answer to anything involving Trump is always ‘wrong.’” Yet: “For the first time in years, D.C. just went seven straight days without a single homicide,” along with an 83% drop in carjackings, a 46% decline in robberies and overall 22% fall in crime. So much for the 65% of district residents a poll found “confidently declared that the deployment will not reduce violent crime in the city.”

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