Secret Service agents protecting President Joe Biden’s granddaughter have opened fire after three people tried to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle in Washington.
“The cradle of our democracy” refers to Washington DC in particular which is directly governed by the House/Senate. It also consistently ranks as one of the top cities in crime in the US by almost any metric (although ranking crime by city gets murky). Additionally it is notoriously poorly governed and has some really strange local laws that are almost entirely nationally political in origin. It also doesn’t really help that the people living in D.C. get a diminished political voice by default.
I don’t know if there’s really grander conclusions to make other than having people govern a city that have no vested interest in the locals, with their actual constituents possibly 1000s of miles away, is a terrible idea. As for what it says about our government as a whole, I really think it’s a better case for MORE democracy for the locals in D.C. rather than an indictment of the idea…
It doesn’t have to be zero crime, but Washington DC is a crime-ridden hell hole. Just for starters, the 2021 homicide rate was 32.78 per 100k people. Paris was 1.1, London was 1.1, New York was around 5, Los Angeles around 10.
It is uniquely awful, both within the US and elsewhere.
This happened in Georgetown, where the most likely crime you’d ever experience is how much the shops charge for a mediocre cupcake or expecting reservations to actually matter at Founding Farmers. It’s a city like any other and, depending on the year, usually averages a bit lower in crime rates.
DC is alright I really wouldn’t call it a hell hole. but I don’t use superlatives to describe some regular type of shit. car hoppers are a normal thing in pretty much any city.
I refuse to accept this and carjacking as “regular type of shit.” Hell, I refuse to accept littering as “regular type of shit.” Soon we’ll be like Juarez or Rio but with more guns.
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Name a country without crime. Go on. Democratic or otherwise. News flash: by your definition the world is a crime-ridden hellhole.
“The cradle of our democracy” refers to Washington DC in particular which is directly governed by the House/Senate. It also consistently ranks as one of the top cities in crime in the US by almost any metric (although ranking crime by city gets murky). Additionally it is notoriously poorly governed and has some really strange local laws that are almost entirely nationally political in origin. It also doesn’t really help that the people living in D.C. get a diminished political voice by default.
I don’t know if there’s really grander conclusions to make other than having people govern a city that have no vested interest in the locals, with their actual constituents possibly 1000s of miles away, is a terrible idea. As for what it says about our government as a whole, I really think it’s a better case for MORE democracy for the locals in D.C. rather than an indictment of the idea…
To read about D.C. and how it is governed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Basic crime stats for D.C.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.
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It doesn’t have to be zero crime, but Washington DC is a crime-ridden hell hole. Just for starters, the 2021 homicide rate was 32.78 per 100k people. Paris was 1.1, London was 1.1, New York was around 5, Los Angeles around 10.
It is uniquely awful, both within the US and elsewhere.
Isn’t it though?
Crime is a human condition of civilization it would seem. Just how much there is and the economic level of those committing it changes.
North Korea? You don’t even have to commit a crime and you go to a forced labor prison.
This happened in Georgetown, where the most likely crime you’d ever experience is how much the shops charge for a mediocre cupcake or expecting reservations to actually matter at Founding Farmers. It’s a city like any other and, depending on the year, usually averages a bit lower in crime rates.
DC is alright I really wouldn’t call it a hell hole. but I don’t use superlatives to describe some regular type of shit. car hoppers are a normal thing in pretty much any city.
I refuse to accept this and carjacking as “regular type of shit.” Hell, I refuse to accept littering as “regular type of shit.” Soon we’ll be like Juarez or Rio but with more guns.
it’s just population density, not politics or guns. try london or paris, for example? you need to be smart about where and how you park in a city.
Take a chill pill, Rorschach
Things are getting better, not worse
Technically Philadelphia would be the cradle of US democracy.
Guarantee you this dude is a rural PNW prepper lol
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This is not relevant to my comment.
You wanna confirm for me tho?
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