Trump’s war on DC crime: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC, to curb crime.
President Trump is an absolute genius (“Historic rescue for DC,” Aug. 12).
Since the left needs to be towards something he does, the insane Democrats now discover themselves on the facet of the carjackers, gangbangers and road thugs in Washington, DC.
Word on the road is that Michelle and Barack Obama are very involved about Trump’s actions as they observe the shenanigans from their lily-white neighborhood on Nantucket.
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
The president has had enough of lawbreakers within the capital.
It’s time to take back control of town from criminals who terrorize its residents.
Trump has created a template for combating crime.
New York and Chicago ought to take discover, together with a few different cities who let lawbreakers rule the streets with hard-working people dwelling in worry of being victims of violent crime.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
I like these “Free DC” protests in Washington, organized by teams that obtain darkish money from the Soros “philanthropies” and different left-leaning teams that resent the United States and wish to see it destroyed.
Today’s protesters are nothing however helpful idiots.
It’s the one approach to describe people who protest towards controlling crime.
Mindy Rader
New City
I applaud President Trump’s measures to crack down on crime in Washington, DC, however this show of drive will solely be quickly efficient if recidivism isn’t addressed.
You can arrest each single unhealthy man in DC, but when the courts flip them free, you’ll be proper back the place you began.
It looks as if a fairly easy resolution to incarcerate the people who repeatedly commit crimes, however lax legal guidelines and liberal judges work towards this common-sense notion.
This stupidity just isn’t distinctive to DC, and till judicial reform is adopted in crime-plagued cities, we are going to proceed the inane cycle of placing incorrigible people via a damaged system time and again again.
Thomas Urban
Wantagh
Trump’s soiled restaurant analogy is a sound one.
If Washington’s streets and public locations are unkempt and unsafe, who will wish to go there?
There are unparalleled architectural and historic websites, museums and world-class eating places.
Until people can return in peace to go to and luxuriate in them, the duty won’t be full.
Ira Cohen
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
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As long as there are liberal judges, prosecutors, politicians and voters who don’t imagine in accountability, penalties and punishment for criminals, crime will flourish.
The final injustice is defending criminals on the expense of victims.
Liberals who intention to defund and handcuff the police bear monumental duty for crime and anarchy in our cities.
President Trump is doing what liberals are unwilling to do: defending the people of Washington, DC.
Joe Zeloof
Hamilton, NJ
Finally, we’ve got a president who received’t be oblivious to the final breakdown of law and order in our large cities.
His takeover of the DC police division and activation of the National Guard to back it up are constructive steps towards restoring security to the District of Columbia.
It received’t be long earlier than the clueless loonies hoot and holler about this motion.
When they do, we need to recollect this: Whatever Trump does, no matter he says, the hapless left will all the time, with out exception, react in a detrimental fashion with out offering an ounce of a treatment.
Frank Olivieri
North Ft. Myers, Fla.
When President Trump gleefully advised the nation that DC police officers and National Guard troopers will now be allowed to “do whatever the hell they want,” did he imply that he’s authorizing them to stand within the center of Pennsylvania Avenue and shoot anyone?
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
Too unhealthy Trump can’t “free” different crime-ridden cities like Chicago, San Francisco and New York.
The Democrats are hallucinating as ordinary.
They assume all is effectively when it’s not.
Brenda Hodgkiss
Atlantic Highlands, NJ
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