Metropolis Sues Superman For Reducing Crime | Babylon Bee - "City leaders were outraged that the Last Son of Krypton had the audacity to take it upon himself to stop criminals in the middle of committing their brazen acts of lawlessness and protect the innocent citizens who were put in harm's way. "This is literal fascism. Restoring law, order, and safety will never be acceptable here," said Metropolis Mayor Bradford Sackett. "The criminal element is a long-revered part of the fabric of our city's culture and tradition, and we will not stand for someone from another planet coming here and making Metropolis safer for everyone. We have filed a lawsuit to hold Superman accountable for the harm he's doing by saving law-abiding citizens from harm." While most citizens felt the lawsuit was an egregious example of lawfare, one prominent Metropolis resident voiced strong support for it. "It's about time Superman was treated like the public menace he is," said businessman Lex Luthor in an OpEd article for The Daily Planet. "Superman's crime-fighting disproportionately affects Metropolans of color. I've been trying to warn everyone for years, but now it seems like they're finally taking action. If there is any justice, this city will remain a safe place for criminals and miscreants to terrorize, rob, and murder with impunity." At publishing time, the Democrat mayor of Gotham City had opened up his city to serve as a sanctuary for all Metropolis criminals seeking a place of refuge."
Meme - Micah Erfan @micah_erfan: "Any updates on this @thehill?"
"The Hill: "Kamala's newest lie: Trump will send the army after you" (@TheHilOpinion)"
"Guess she was campaigning to criminals. That definitely tracks."
Left wingers identify as criminals
A DC Police Sergeant Exposed Her Superiors for Misclassifying Crimes To Make Stats Look Low. The City Just Quietly Settled Her Lawsuit. - "The District of Columbia has quietly settled a lawsuit from a sergeant who accused Metropolitan Police Department leaders of misclassifying offenses to deflate the district's crime statistics, court records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show. Police brass repeatedly told officers to downgrade theft cases, knife attacks, and violent assaults to lesser offenses, according to internal MPD emails, depositions, and phone call transcripts the Free Beacon reviewed. Former MPD sergeant Charlotte Djossou sued the department in 2020, alleging that police leadership punished her for speaking out against the scheme. Djossou, who joined the force after serving honorably in Iraq, accused MPD brass of attempting to "distort crime statistics" by "downgrading a number of felonies to misdemeanors, so that there will be 'fewer' felonies in the statistics." She also provided records showing that police leaders explicitly instructed their subordinates to underclassify certain instances of theft to keep them out of the crime stats the city reports to the public. The lawsuit, as well as the city's decision to settle, calls into question the prevailing narrative presented in mainstream media outlets as President Donald Trump carries out a D.C. crime crackdown. The New York Times, Washington Post, and Politico have all cited data from the Metropolitan Police Department to contend that D.C. crime is low and Trump's crackdown is unnecessary. That coverage did not mention whistleblowers like Djossou, nor did it disclose that a D.C. police commander is currently on leave after the city's police union accused him of manipulating crime stats. Though elements of Djossou's case have previously been reported, the settlement has not. Neither have several exhibits the legal proceedings brought to light, including a 2022 deposition of MPD commander Randy Griffin. At the time of the events in question, Griffin oversaw D.C's Fourth District in the northernmost part of the city. He confirmed in his deposition that he tasked a police captain, Franklin Porter, with finding "a solution for the theft problem, which was driving up the district's statistics" in April 2018. Porter's solution, devised alongside former MPD lieutenant Andrew Zabavsky, was to use the "Taking Property Without Right" (TPWOR) classification instead of "Shoplifting" or "Theft," Griffin confirmed in the deposition. Court records show that Zabavsky—currently serving a 48-month sentence for covering up an unrelated murder case—"acknowledged this was done because TPWOR reports are not tracked in the D.C. Crime Report." The plan later became the Fourth District's operating procedure. On March 12, 2019, MPD captain Sean Conboy sent an email to his officers in which he asked them to reclassify minor thefts as TPWOR offenses... The department also had a policy of downgrading violent crimes, according to the lawsuit, with the report noting that Starr informed investigators that "managers at the district routinely changed felony classifications to misdemeanors."... Djossou reported one case in which a "female was cut (deep open flesh cut) on the side of her face with an unknown object, from her forehead to the bottom of her chin." While the responding officer had called in the crime as "Assault with a Dangerous Weapon" (ADW), the captain allegedly classified the offense as a "Sick person to the hospital." Djossou called Conboy, the captain who ordered officers to use the TPWOR strategy, about another case on Oct. 24, 2019. In this instance, an on-duty watch officer had downgraded an ADW to a "misdemeanor Simple Assault." "I feel like they're downgrading classifications," said Djossou, according to an MPD transcript of the call. "[The assailant] strangled [the victim], he ended up throwing her over the couch. She had scratches on her neck, her shirt was ripped, and then he threw a knife in her direction close to her head, she moved out of the way." Conboy played down the crime, the transcript reads, saying it only "tangentially involved a knife" because the "knife never made contact with the complainant." Djossou responded that the knife only missed the victim because she "moved out of the way," to which Conboy asked whether Djossou would classify a thrown shoe as an ADW and said he did not "see any issues with the current classification."... The MPD is one of many police departments to be accused of misclassifying crimes in recent years. The Los Angeles Police Department in 2015 admitted to categorizing approximately 14,000 assaults as minor offenses between 2005 and 2012, decreasing the city's crime rate by 7 percent. The New York City Police Department acknowledged in 2012 that at least one precinct had systematically underreported crime and hundreds of retired officers said they knew of at least three instances in which the department had done so. In April 2024, the New Orleans Police Department announced that it had underreported more than 400 rape cases and blamed technical issues in its record system. In many cities, misrepresentation of statistics leads residents to believe decreases in crime occurred where none existed in reality. Columbus, Ohio, reported a drop in violent crime in 2013 and 2014, but in 2024, citizens learned that violent offenses had actually increased during that time."
So much for that "conspiracy theory"
My brush with death in DC - The Spectator World - "The two Metropolitan Police Department officers my 911 call summoned didn’t show up until a half-hour later, even though the nearest station was only a two-minute walk away. Gesturing toward my broken windshield, I asked them for confirmation of what I already knew had happened. Yes, my car had probably been shot with me in it, they agreed before informing me that all they could do was record the incident. If I wanted, they said, I could ask nearby apartment buildings and businesses for security footage and report back to them. And then they were off; my ears were still ringing. That was only the most notable of my many experiences with the post-Covid crime wave that made DC such an unsettling place to live during my two years in the district. There was also the time a man on a motorcycle swerved onto the sidewalk to stare me down as my fiancée hid behind me; the time her cousin was mugged; and the time my friend from college was killed in a hit-and-run. On our way home from the grocery store one afternoon, we observed a high school boy beating up a girl roughly his age as their presumed classmates looked on. I called the police and began loudly describing the situation as I approached the culprit and victim, causing all involved to flee. I sat outside for over an hour waiting for the cops to show. They never did... Trump’s critics have portrayed his decision to take action in DC as a thinly-justified power grab. After only a little reflection, though, it’s hard to believe it took this long for a president to do something, anything, about its embarrassing state. “But the murder and violent crime rates are down!” wailed America’s shameless progressive establishment on Monday. Yes, from the historic highs they reached in 2023. It’s only August and the district – which has a population of only a little over 700,000 – has already seen 189 carjackings, 99 homicides, and 2,909 motor vehicle thefts this year. Last year, it had one of the highest murder rates of any major American city. Early Monday evening, just a few hours after Trump’s press conference, a man was shot and killed around the affluent Logan Circle neighborhood. During a visit back to the city last year, I walked to our favorite sushi restaurant near my fiancée’s old apartment to make it for happy hour. On the way back, I found a street I had used only an hour earlier had been shut down after a gunfight. Try – if you’re brave enough – walking around DC for a few hours and then uttering the words “this a safe, clean and pleasant place to live” without laughing or crying. You’d be lucky if you made it without coming across a crime scene – or becoming a crime statistic.. Should Trump have activated the National Guard? Could he have possibly used a lighter touch? Such questions pale in importance compared to this one: did something need to be done in the federal district to carry out government’s most basic mandate, the protection of its citizens? The President answered, “Yes” yesterday. God bless him for it."
Trump’s DC takeover has exposed the derangement of his pro-crime critics - "Shots rang out again in Washington DC on Monday night, claiming the US capital’s 100th murder victim of 2025. Granted, that figure is slightly lower than the 112 Washingtonians estimated to have been slain in the city by about this time last year, but it is still high enough to blight it with one of America’s worst murder rates. In 2023, it was placed ahead of Bogota and other third-world capitals that DC liberals would likely consider dangerous hardship posts and altogether avoid. But critics of Donald Trump’s decision to take over Washington’s police force and deploy federal agents and 800 National Guardsmen to the city certainly do not share the president’s view that they “will be so happy” now that someone is finally taking the problem seriously. Instead, they are succumbing to bouts of Trump Derangement Syndrome that are seriously challenging both logic and ideological consistency at what could be an important juncture in the restoration of responsible American law enforcement. “Get lost”, posted Democratic House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, who falsely claimed Trump has “no basis” to take over DC law enforcement. Washington mayor Muriel Bowser described Trump’s move, which she nevertheless acknowledged is legal under Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973, as “unsettling and unprecedented”... Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District of Columbia’s elected delegate to Congress, called Trump’s decision “an historic assault on DC home rule” and a “counterproductive, escalatory seizure of DC’s resources to use for purposes” that she claimed without evidence are “not supported by DC residents”. Ian Bremmer, an international relations analyst, took to X to float a conspiracy theory that Trump is “gradually normalising use of the National Guard in liberal cities,” in a manner that “paves the way for using the National Guard at a more strategically important time, say, during elections”. On and on the complaints have gone – with others suggesting that the president acted only because he knows he’s losing (despite Trump’s and his party’s relatively high poll ratings). Social media footage of a sparsely attended protest in downtown Washington organised by a group called “Refuse Fascism!” showed a small number of activists carrying signs declaring that “Trump Must Go Now”. Trump’s opponents in the liberal media have taken particular comfort from recent statistical declines in some violent crime rates – imagining them to be the definitive proof that the president is motivated not by tackling criminality or cleaning up Washington DC, but by some sinister desire to augment his own power. The general editorialising ignores, however, that Washington’s baseline of violent crimes is still intolerably high, that such crimes are regularly committed by teenagers who face relatively light sanctions even for murder, that DC laws and prosecutorial practice can be highly permissive toward criminals, that patterns of crime now affect the entire city rather than isolated areas, and that non-violent crimes – such as car theft – have not appreciably declined. Nor do they acknowledge what Trump has repeatedly identified as his larger goal, to turn America’s capital into a showplace. The combined effect of the Left’s hysteria at the president has to put them, once again, on the side of violent criminals, left arguing that either there is no serious crime problem in Washington DC (despite all the evidence to the contrary) or that there is a problem but that nothing much should be done about it. From the reactions of the leaders of America’s fading progressive movement, one could easily deduce that they do not wish for the capital to be a showplace, or for Americans anywhere to feel confidence, pride, or patriotism in their national capital. After all, if their compatriots did feel that way, what use would they have for Democrats?"
Leading Report on X - "BREAKING: LA Mayor Karen Bass disapproves of President Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., saying it mainly impacts “black and brown youth.”"
Isn't it racist to say that black and brown people are affected by a crackdown on crime?
Meme - "The Democrats are freaking out because Trump's law enforcement in DC will save more black lives than BLM ever did."
Rapid Response 47 on X - "🚨 MUST WATCH: "DRAMATIC REDUCTIONS IN CRIME" in D.C. "For the first time in a long time, D.C. has gone 7 days without a homicide — and that's not all... Carjackings are down 83%. Robberies are down 46%. Car thefts, down 21% — and overall violent crime is down 22%"
Bowser says federal police surge has reduced crime in DC, but ‘north star’ is protecting city’s autonomy - "The surge in federal law enforcement in Washington, DC, has “enhanced” the capacity of local police officers and led to fewer crimes, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser said... polling has shown that DC residents feel less safe after the federal takeover. A Washington Post-Scar School poll released last week found that 79% of DC residents opposed Trump’s actions, with 65% saying that they don’t think the moves will reduce the amount of violent crime in the city."
Truthiness is more important than truth
Trump deploying National Guard to DC was the right call - "The White House’s fact sheet mentioned the recent high-profile fatal shootings of two Israeli Embassy staffers and a congressional intern, as well as a brutal assault on an administration staffer. But it could have cited many other heinous crimes, including attacks on members of Congress. The DC government has shown itself to be inept at addressing the situation or even acknowledging that there is a situation that needs to be addressed. In fact, it played a significant role in creating the current crime crisis. Its efforts to defund the Metropolitan Police Department have led to major staffing problems, with roughly 800 vacancies that have proved difficult to fill. In many respects, Trump’s federal “surge” is just making up for that deficiency and allowing armed police officers to spend more time in areas where the crime problem is particularly bad while federal officers assist them. Critics claim that Trump lacks the authority to do this. But Washington is a federal enclave that gives the president and Congress plenary authority to act... Critics also claim that crime in Washington is at a 30-year low. Saying the crime situation here is the best it has been in 30 years is akin to saying my golf game is the best it has been in 30 years ‒ even if it's true, it's still deplorable. A DC police commander has been placed on leave and is under investigation in the manipulation of crime data to make it seem as though violent crime is dropping more precipitously than is actually the case. But the problem may be more widespread than just one rogue officer. Gregg Pemberton, the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police, said the claim that violent crime has dropped dramatically in the District of Columbia is “preposterous.” Pemberton added: “When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” such as reporting a shooting or stabbing as an assault and a carjacking as a theft... DC still ranked near the top in terms of per capita homicide and violent crime rates for a major city. Moreover, from 2009 to 2019, there were an average of 142 homicides per year (with a low of 88 in 2012 and a high of 166 in 2019) in Washington. That’s lower than the total in 2024. And the odds of a victim dying while being assaulted or robbed in the city has risen 341% since 2012."
Washington DC sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment - "The suit, filed by DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb on Thursday, says that the deployment of troops is undermining the city's autonomy and hurting the local economy... "Deploying the National Guard to engage in law enforcement is not only unnecessary and unwanted, but it is also dangerous and harmful to the District and its residents""
Law enforcement is dangerous. Criminals are peaceful
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "The National Guard cannot refuse a legal order from the President or Governor in control of them at that time… If the Governor of your state calls up the National Guard, they are required by law to respond. You’re asking the military to refuse civilian authority… that is INFINITELY more dangerous from the perspective of potential authoritarianism threatening democratic rule."
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "You don't see how silly you look when you compare picking up trash to the mass extermination of the Jewish diaspora? It make your whole skree look silly and out of touch. We have 0 people in extermination camps or in concentration camps. Zero ... It is just a weird argument. Their job is to follow legal orders. You are complaining that they are following legal orders. If people stopped following legal orders, society would fall apart overnight. It is how a society works that we all follow the rules. It actually disproves your theory. Nobody is refusing because the orders are legal. If asked to do something illegal, the large majority of guardsmen would refuse. The issue is they are not being asked to do anything illegal. In LA, I would have been pumped to go protect the ICE agents, as any insurgency should be crushed before it spreads. Had people not attacked federal agents, the guard wouldn't have had a reason to be called up to defend the agents. You are blaming the wrong people."
"I mean, fuck ICE too lol. But my CMV wasn't ever about the legality or lack thereof. It was about how people like YOU are making people like me far more concerned about how much shit you are willing to let people do in the name of following orders, and your arguments are just reinforcing that."
"People like you are the reason we have to deploy the guard to keep order. As long as it is legal, I will support the guard. As long as ICE is enforcing the laws that Congress wrote, I will support ICE. It is why we have a functioning society."
"People like me? I'm a law abiding citizen with a clean record. People like me are good citizens. I'd argue being a good citizen involves questioning things, not just accepting every law and action. But where you and I apparently differ is that for me, legality and morality are 2 very different things. You seem to think as long as it's legal, fuck morality. And that is... a choice."
Left wing logic: you should disobey a legal order if it threatens the left wing agenda
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "It sounds like you are refusing to accept reality for ideological purposes. Increasing the presence of of law enforcement will undoubtedly decrease crime. This is already working to a great degree in DC, where the mayor has agreed to work with the administration: https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-news/dc-national-guard-has-order-extended-through-remainder-of-2025-officials/ No one should be good with death and mayhem because it fits your ideological worldview."
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "Leftist leaders have had ample time to reduce poverty in their cities. The people there are slaves to the hand-outs and it's only made the problem worse. The real reason that people are pissed about Trump's actions is that THEY'RE WORKING. It turns out that the solution to deal with violent criminals is, in fact, FORCE! Trump is proving this with real action and real numbers, and that's why leftist apologists are scrambling."
CMV: The people defending National Guardsman for "obeying orders" are unintentionally proving WHY so many people are worried right now. : r/changemyview - "'Increasing the presence of of law enforcement will undoubtedly decrease crime.'
In the short term, yes. But that's a band-aid solution. It's not sustainable. The long-term solution to lowering crime is reducing poverty. But we both know this administration isn't looking long-term solutions. This is a power grab and a warning to Democratic strongholds."
"Short-term crime reduction is always preferable to short-term death and destruction."
Meme - r/libsofreddlit: "OMG look Trump is Turning DC into a Police State with Military Occupation!
Nevermind - This is what Democrats did for months during Bidens installation. Tall fences, barricades and a military occupation. Anyone speaking against was sent to concentration and re-education camps."
