Good Sunday morning. We’re going to find out tomorrow what happens when a sitting president tries to make good on his threats to effectively take over an American city. Trump has been ranting about rising crime in Washington DC and most of the media has missed the point — FBI data shows that crime was at historic lows in 2024.
Meantime, the right-wing media is using a brawl in Cincinnati on July 26 as evidence of this rising crime narrative. They’re taking it a step further and fear-mongering over black-on-white crime. But that doesn’t add up either. Video shows multiple Black men trying to help one of the white victims in the melee — even as he spews racial slurs.
I’ll have more on this in the coming days here and at Public Notice, but for now, you can chew on the breakdown of the Cincinnati madness above. You an throw a few bucks my way, too, if you want. I was up pretty late last night going through the recently-released annual crime report from the FBI — which many in the mainstream press have somehow ignored — and it reminded me of the old days of crime reporting that marked the beginning of my career.
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