"If you want to reduce #crime,⚡these are proven solutions:

-Higher min wage
-Gtd min income
-Univ Pre-K
-Univ HC
-Aff hsg
-Job opps/training
-Access to Q ED

It isn't that solving our nation's problems is difficult or unaffordable. We're simply choosing not to."
-J Sears

"#DC Mayor Bowser says⬆️in fed officers has sig reduced crimes like carjacking, but it's🚨broken police-comm RS.

Masked #ICE agents in the comm hasn't worked, hasn't been an efficient use of those resources."
-K Cheney
#USPol

"If you want to reduce #crime,⚡these are proven solutions:

-Higher min wage
-Gtd min income
-Univ Pre-K
-Univ HC
-Aff hsg
-Job opps/training
-Access to Q ED

It isn't that solving our nation's problems is difficult or unaffordable. We're simply choosing not to."
-J Sears

"#DC Mayor Bowser says⬆️in fed officers has sig reduced crimes like carjacking, but it's🚨broken police-comm RS.

Masked #ICE agents in the comm hasn't worked, hasn't been an efficient use of those resources."
-K Cheney
#USPol

Two children ages 8 and 10 are dead and 17 people are injured after a mass shooting at a Minneapolis school.

NBC News has a live blog with the latest: https://flip.it/j3TXlz

#Minneapolis#News#Shooting#Crime#Guns

Pretty sure Karl means that lying about crime is a big problem for Fox News.

Karl Rove warns crime is a 'big problem' for Democrats
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5471776-democrats-crime-label-issue/

#Crime#KarlRove#FoxNews#RepublicansLie#USPol

A litany of speakers in #Chicago cited drops–some of them considerable–in violent #crime & property crimes in the city. They also highlighted the hundreds of millions of dollars in #Trump admin cuts in federal support for #law enforcement, #housing & other programs that Johnson called “proven solutions to crime & violence reduction.”

“We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” the mayor said.

Pritzker:

“thirteen of the top twenty cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago.

Eight of the top ten states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois.”

Pritzker:

“thirteen of the top twenty cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of these cities is Chicago.

Eight of the top ten states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states is Illinois.”

The highest crime rates in DC aren’t being committed on the streets. They’re being committed by Trump and the Republican regime at the Capitol.

No amount of National Guardsmen will stop the Republican corruption.

#MAGA #republicans #corruption #washington #trump #crime #washingtondc

The highest crime rates in DC aren’t being committed on the streets. They’re being committed by Trump and the Republican regime at the Capitol.

No amount of National Guardsmen will stop the Republican corruption.

#MAGA #republicans #corruption #washington #trump #crime #washingtondc

Smith attributes much of the drops in violent #crime to a focus in #Chicago on the #systemic drivers of #violence, rather than the #militaristic approach #Trump has touted in #WashingtonDC. She encouraged more federal investment in researching these types of #ViolencePrevention strategies.

“Kind of out of necessity Chicago has become a hub for innovation in gun violence prevention,” she said.

#law#US #military#NationalGuard#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#TrumpCoup2

#law#US#Trump #military#NationalGuard#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2

Violent #crime in #Chicago dropped significantly in the first half of the year, representing the steepest decline in over a decade, according to city data. Shootings are down 37%, & homicides have dropped by 32%, while total violence crime dropped by over 22%.

#law#US#Trump #military#NationalGuard#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2

He has drawn controversial comparisons between the city & war zones like Afghanistan, & in 2017, vowed to “send in the feds” in response to #gun violence—a move that came even as the city was experiencing a broader trend of declining violent #crime.

#law#US #military#MilitaryState #authoritarianism #autocracy #tyranny#Gestapo #coup#TrumpCoup2
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-8-25-2025#00000198-e235-d5ab-a1bd-e2ff139b0000