Tag: Crime

MoveOn: Anyone Refusing to Constrain Trump’s War and His War Crime Threats Is Complicit

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MoveOn: Anyone Refusing to Constrain Trump’s War and His War Crime Threats Is Complicit WASHINGTON– In response to President Trump’s illegal and escalatory threats against Iran, MoveOn Civic Action spokesperson Joel Payne released the following statement: “Simply by threatening to target civilians and civilian infrastructure, Donald Trump is committing war crimes. Trump started this war on Iran unilaterally, and he wants us to foot the bill. He is wasting a billion dollars a day on his war, while destroying our health care and causing gas prices for American families to…

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House Republicans Back President Trump’s Crackdown on DC Crime

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It’s no secret that violent crime is spiraling out of control in our cities.  Some would have you believe that rampant crime is just a fact of life when you live in a big city, but that’s not true. Rampant crime is a consequence of failed policy and moral leadership. For the last 20 years, the city of Washington, D.C., has had an average of three homicides a week. In 2024, 29,348 crimes were reported in Washington, including 3,469 violent offenses, 2,113 robberies, and 5,139 vehicle thefts. In 2025, there…

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D.C.’s Crime Problem Is a Democracy Problem

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Matthew Graves is not shy about promoting his success in prosecuting those who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. By his count, Graves, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has charged more than 1,358 individuals, spread across nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for assaulting police, destroying federal property, and other crimes. He issues a press release for most cases, and he held a rare news conference this past January to tout his achievements. But Graves’s record of bringing violent criminals to justice on the…

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Capital Crime Wave Prompts DC Mayor’s Major Reversal on Police Restraints

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Amid escalating crime in the nation’s capital, President Joe Biden went to bat for a “police reform” law passed by the D.C. Council by vetoing a bipartisan congressional measure that would have overturned it. Now, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants to roll back the same law that Biden protected.  The House Oversight and Accountability Committee, whose oversight includes the District of Columbia, held two hearings earlier this year on the D.C. crime problem.  “Unfortunately, President Biden refused to stand by the Metropolitan Police Department and allowed the D.C. Council’s anti-police…

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What’s Really Going On With the Crime Rate?

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Turn on a television in any state with a competitive Senate or gubernatorial race, and you’ll see that the criminal-justice reform agenda is under constant attack. Republicans are pinning higher crime rates on Democrats who have expressed sympathy for almost any aspect of the movement to confront racial inequities in the criminal-justice system. In New York, a conservative super PAC opposing Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul is slamming her for defending “the state’s disastrous cashless bail experiment” and refusing to “remove liberal prosecutors, like [Manhattan’s] Alvin Bragg, who too often downgrade…

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Biden slams Republicans, firearms industry for crime wave as he calls for gun-control measures

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NEW YORK — President Biden blamed lax gun ownership laws Thursday for the crime wave hitting New York City and other communities, insisting that Second Amendment rights were never meant to be absolute but saying nothing about the progressive crime policies of new District Attorney Alvin Bragg that many here blame for the surge of violence in the city. In a meeting with New York Mayor Eric Adams and other Democratic officials, Mr. Biden criticized the “resistance” to gun control measures by Republicans in Congress, state legislatures, gun manufacturers and…

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