The Best of Reason: What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?

Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.

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The Best of Reason: What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?

This week's featured article is "What Caused the D.C. Crime Wave?" by Joe Bishop-Henchman.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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[Rick James]

Don't blame criminal justice reform or a lack of social spending for D.C.'s crime spike. Blame government mismanagement.

Criminal justice reform and social spending ARE government mismanagement.

[Rick James]

Steve Sailer shows CDC data and correlates a HUGE jump in murders in the black population that shows up exactly with George Floyd. Exactly.

[Rick James]

What's silly about this, "Hey man, it's like bad government and stuff" narrative is bad government has been with us forever. But something happened that caused a very sudden spike, and that something correlates extremely tightly with a specific set of events that occurred in 2020.

So the question to ask is, "What did our already bad government start doing that caused a sudden, sharp and noticeable spike in crime and murders?"

[Michael Ejercito]

So the question to ask is, “What did our already bad government start doing that caused a sudden, sharp and noticeable spike in crime and murders?”
What I do know is that it was done by the same side that pushes for stricter gun control laws.

[Rick James]

Leftists: Real Marxism has never been tried.
Reason: Real criminal justice reform has never been tried.

[sarcasmic]

Blame government mismanagement.

D.C. is run by Democrats. That means Reason is blaming Democrats.

Nope! This article goes against the narrative! It does not exist!

[Don't look at me!]

Poor sarc.

[JesseAz (5-30 Banana Republic Day)]

Poor retarded sarc.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Best of huh.

[MasterThief]

As soon as you see it you know it'll be a rehash of one of the most poorly reasoned articles from the past week

[Rick James]

Everyone! Stop! Whatever news you’re reading… STOP!

It’s not your imagination: People are getting COVID again

ATLANTA — The summer of 2024 is already bringing soaring temperatures to much of the country along with something else that has become almost a given: a seasonal COVID-19 wave.

Cases are growing or likely growing in 39 states including Georgia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signaling that a summer bump is underway. The CDC no longer tracks COVID case numbers but estimates the trend of the virus spread based on emergency room visits.

Levels of virus found in wastewater samples, often an early signal of rising COVID cases, have also been rising in Georgia according to CDC surveillance. But it’s not clear if that means cases will continue to surge.

And while the rise is not too surprising with people traveling and gathering indoors where it’s cooler, health experts and doctors expect this season’s illnesses to be milder than some past versions of the virus. But the latest iterations of the ever-evolving coronavirus seem to be more contagious.

Pretty soon, COVID will be so weak that it’ll essentially have symptoms similar to that of a hangnail, but yet it’ll be far more contagious than EVAR!

[mad.casual]

Levels of virus found in wastewater samples, often an early signal of rising COVID cases

I take this sign as a trailing indicator that too few baseball bats and hanging ropes were employed in response to the rampant COVIDiocy infection at the CDC and major media outlets.

John Snow, 1854: You've got infected wastewater leaking into this specific drinking water source. To prevent further infection, shut off the water source until you can clean it up.
CDC, 2024: So, what you're saying is, we can use wastewater to predict how many people will get infected!?!
Media, 2024: CDC testing of road wetness indicates possibility of rain.

Pretty soon, COVID will be so weak that it’ll essentially have symptoms similar to that of a hangnail, but yet it’ll be far more contagious than EVAR!

It already takes me longer to get over a hangnail than COVID and, again, long, long before COVID or even zika, the CDC was saying stupid shit like there are some estimated 300K over 400K unreported cases of Lyme Disease contracted by people who may or may not have been bitten by a tick.