Source: Washington Monthly
by Bill Scher
”Facts don’t care about your feelings’ is a maxim popularized by the conservative commentator Ben Shapiro. As I don’t expect rigorous fact-checking from Shapiro and his far-right content factory Daily Wire, I was not shocked to hear a Daily Wire podcaster Michael Knowles defend Donald Trump’s militaristic federal takeover of the Washington, D.C. police as being ‘in response to skyrocketing crime,’ despite the fact that the rate of violent crime in D.C in 2024 is down by more than a third since 2023, and more than half since 2010. … even if we are to consider ‘feelings,’ what is the evidence that there is a panic about crime — either in Washington or across the country — that would support Trump deploying the National Guard and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take over local policing?” (08/13/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/08/13/facts-about-crime-dont-care-about-trumps-feelings/