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New York Post
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Post
Former Capitol Police Chief backs federal takeover of DC police after spike in youth gang crime
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund warned Breitbart News Daily that Washington DC's homicide rate is 'five to six times that of any other major city in the United States.' President Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to deploy approximately 800 National Guard troops and assume oversight of the Metropolitan Police Department to tackle rising crime in Washington, DC. Advertisement The announcement caused shockwaves across the media, with some critics arguing that increased concern about crime is based on a faulty perception of America's cities. Meanwhile, others, like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, hinted that there may be some truth to Trump saying there is a crisis. Sund praised Trump in particular for being a 'very, very detail-oriented person,' to the point he notices potential issues with the capital during rides in the motorcade. 'In case people don't know that, it is not uncommon for him to be driving in a motorcade and realize, hey, street lights are out, or look at that or look at that graffiti and make a notification on it. That is how detail-oriented this President is. So for him to see some of the crime that's happening and some of the assaults that are occurring — and Navy Yard is just six blocks south of the Capitol, a short distance from the White House. It's a big area,' Sund said. 'To see these gangs of youth kind of taking it over, it doesn't surprise me that they're now going to pull these federal resources together and form… [a] task force,' Sund said of Trump's new initiative. Advertisement 3 National Guard members stationed near the entrance to Union Station in Washington, DC, on Aug. 14, 2025. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite But what has been stopped before can be stopped again, and Sund argued that Trump's methods have indeed been tested in recent history. 'We did this in the early '90s, when I was with DC police, we were able to drive down homicide rates. When Chief Lanier was chief, think about 2010 to 2014, we had a homicide rate that was maybe right around 100, 170 a year,' he said. 'Now 2023, you got 274 homicides. So you had a significant increase.' The rise in crime in America's capital city is something noticed by commentators across the political spectrum, but many Democrats continue to downplay it, claiming it is actually at a 30-year low. Advertisement 3 FBI agents patrolling Washington, DC, on Aug. 13, 2025. Photo by'So when people talk about, 'Oh, there's a big drop,' there's a drop from 2023 to 2024, but it's still significant — double what we had in around 2010,' Sund pointed out, noting the nuance that there 'used to be a time the crime really stayed in certain neighborhoods.' Other former members of law enforcement have sounded the alarm as well. 'You have less chance of being victimized, but if you are victimized, you have more of a chance of dying,' John Jay adjunct lecturer Jillian Snider, a retired New York Police Department officer, told Fox News Digital Tuesday of violent crime trends in the nation's capital. Advertisement 3 National Guard soldiers seen near the Capitol building on Aug. 14, 2025. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Snider was referring to a report published by the Council on Criminal Justice in July, which studied violent crime data of 17 large US cities between 2018 and 2024, specifically diving into the lethality of violent crimes in those cities. It found Washington, DC, had the highest lethality level out of the group — which included cities such as Baltimore and Chicago — at a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared with 2018. Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this report.
Fox News
3 days ago
- Politics
- Fox News
Former Capitol Police Chief says crime by ‘gangs of youth' in DC has spiked, escaped ‘certain neighborhoods'
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund warned Breitbart News Daily that Washington D.C.'s homicide rate is "five to six times that of any other major city in the United States." President Donald Trump announced Monday that he plans to deploy approximately 800 National Guard troops and assume oversight of the Metropolitan Police Department to tackle rising crime in Washington, D.C. The announcement caused shockwaves across the media, with some critics arguing that increased concern about crime is based on a faulty perception of America's cities. Meanwhile, others, like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, hinted that there may be some truth to Trump saying there is a crisis. Sund praised Trump in particular for being a "very, very detail-oriented person," to the point he notices potential issues with the capital during rides in the motorcade. "In case people don't know that, it is not uncommon for him to be driving in a motorcade and realize, hey, street lights are out, or look at that or look at that graffiti and make a notification on it. That is how detail-oriented this President is. So for him to see some of the crime that's happening and some of the assaults that are occurring — and Navy Yard is just six blocks south of the Capitol, a short distance from the White House. It's a big area," Sund DEMOCRATS RIPPED ON SOCIAL MEDIA OVER 'BONKERS' REACTIONS TO TRUMP'S DC CRIME PLAN: 'MASSIVE LIAR' "To see these gangs of youth kind of taking it over, it doesn't surprise me that they're now going to pull these federal resources together and form… [a] task force," Sund said of Trump's new initiative. But what has been stopped before can be stopped again, and Sund argued that Trump's methods have indeed been tested in recent history. "We did this in the early '90s, when I was with D.C. police, we were able to drive down homicide rates. When Chief Lanier was chief, think about 2010 to 2014, we had a homicide rate that was maybe right around 100, 170 a year," he said. "Now 2023, you got 274 homicides. So you had a significant increase." The rise in crime in America's capital city is something noticed by commentators across the political spectrum, but many Democrats continue to downplay it, claiming it is actually at a 30-year low. "So when people talk about, 'Oh, there's a big drop,' there's a drop from 2023 to 2024, but it's still significant — double what we had in around 2010," Sund pointed out, noting the nuance that there "used to be a time the crime really stayed in certain neighborhoods." Other former members of law enforcement have sounded the alarm as well. "You have less chance of being victimized, but if you are victimized, you have more of a chance of dying," John Jay adjunct lecturer Jillian Snider, a retired New York Police Department officer, told Fox News Digital Tuesday of violent crime trends in the nation's capital. Snider was referring to a report published by the Council on Criminal Justice in July, which studied violent crime data of 17 large U.S. cities between 2018 and 2024, specifically diving into the lethality of violent crimes in those cities. It found Washington, D.C., had the highest lethality level out of the group — which included cities such as Baltimore and Chicago — at a 38% increase in lethality in 2024 compared with 2018.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Will Channel One and those who rely on it keep food on the table?
Mar. 23—Dear Answer Man: Since DOGE efforts are putting some Channel One funding in jeopardy, has the community stepped up with donations to fill the gap? Also, I know retail prices vs. what Channel One pays are different, but if food prices — eggs, meat, etc. — do come down, will that help? — Concerned for the Hungry. Dear Concerned, By "DOGE" you, of course, refer to the Department of Government Efficiency. Channel One can continue its mission if a couple of things happen. One would be for the federal government to reinstate the Local Food Purchase Assistance program, which funds the purchase of food from local farmers. On that front, there's good news. Jessica Sund, director of development and communications for Channel One Regional Food Bank, said, "The LFPA funding has been released for the year, and we will be able to spend the rest of the grant." The second option would be for the state of Minnesota to fund a similar program to help keep local food on Channel One's shelves. That was a discussion held this week in St. Paul. While that all sounds like good news, it doesn't mean Channel One is out of the woods when it comes to conquering hunger in the region. Regional food shelf visits — Channel One provides the food to food shelves in 16 counties across southern Minnesota and southwestern Wisconsin — are up 32% from 2023. That means more people are relying on Channel One to keep hunger at bay. A big problem over the last few years has been inflation's impact on food prices. Sund noted that some staples — eggs, meat and cooking oils, for example — are all items that are facing higher prices both at local grocery stores and to purchase for Channel One, so if those prices come down, it'll be a big help. How can we keep shelves at Channel One and its affiliated food pantries stocked? The community as a whole can donate monetarily to Channel One, which is a major source of revenue for the nonprofit. You can donate via the organization's website, Sund said, "The community has definitely chipped in to help us ensure we are able to meet the rising need and inflation. I am always so appreciative and inspired by how our community supports each other." While more money is always a plus, Sund noted that falling food prices could also benefit Channel One, helping stretch its food-buying dollars. "If prices come down that will not only help Channel One, but it will help those who are turning to us for help," she noted. Send questions to Answer Man at answerman@ .
Telegraph
23-03-2025
- General
- Telegraph
The West has blinded itself to the suffering of Middle Eastern Christians
During the second half of 1915, in a giant outpouring of empathy and generosity, many thousands of Americans, organised by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, donated millions of dollars to aid the survivors of the Muslim Turkish genocide against Asia Minor's Armenian communities. By the mid-1920s, more than £1.5 billion in today's values had been raised to help the surviving Armenians and those still alive after the Turks went on to destroy the other Christian communities of Asia Minor, the Greeks and the Assyrians. Hundreds of American volunteers travelled to the Middle East and the Balkans to distribute food and set up orphanages, vocational schools and hospitals for the remnants of the once thriving Christian communities. How times change. The slaughter, between 1955 and 2005, of up to two million black African Christians and animists in southern Sudan by Sudan's Muslim Arab government – bent on Islamising and Arabising the territory's non-Muslims – generated little interest or coverage in the Western world. Slightly more attention, though no mass outpouring of aid or empathy in the Christian West, accompanied the slaughter of thousands of non-Muslims in northern Iraq during the 2010s by Islamic State, most of the victims Yazidi 'infidels' as well as not a few Christian Arabs. Perhaps the starkest indication of the disappearance of the Middle East's Christians is the demographic evolution of Bethlehem, the city in Palestine (or the West Bank) where Jesus was born. The British Mandate census of 1922 registered 5,800 Christians and 818 Muslims (and two Jews) in the town. In 1948 Bethlehem was still 85 per cent Christian. In 2016 only 16 per cent of the town's residents were Christians, the rest Muslims. The town's Christian population is today probably smaller still, given continued Christian emigration (and higher Muslim birth rates). The steep decline in Christian numbers in the Middle East began with the Ottoman imperial and republican Turkish anti-Christian genocide, though what was to come was already augured in the large-scale massacres of Christians in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860 by their Muslim and Druze neighbours and Ottoman troops. Before 1894, the year the Ottoman government-ordered anti-Armenian massacres began, Christians represented 20-25 per cent of Turkey's population. Today they represent less than 2 per cent. The depletion in Christian numbers and the steady ejection of Christians from the Middle East was driven by the emergence of the anti-Western Arab nationalist movements and their conjunction with Islamic revivalism. Islamist nationalists viewed the Christian imperial powers, mainly Britain and France, as mortal enemies and regarded the local Christian Arab communities as their potential or actual allies. In British Mandate Palestine, for example, the Palestinian 'Arab Revolt' of 1936-1939 against British rule and the Zionist enterprise was accompanied by the slogan 'First Saturday (Sabbath), then Sunday,' meaning first we will smash the Jews, then the Christians. Many Muslims suspected their Christian neighbours of harbouring pro-British sympathies. Later in Palestinian history, individual Christian Arabs, as if to compensate or allay suspicions, were prominent in the vanguard of nationalist militancy. In the 1960s and 1970s, the terrorist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a world innovator in airplane hijackings, was led by two Christian Arabs, George Habash and Wadie Haddad. Such terrorist organisations were lauded by Leftists and even 'liberals' in the West, who viewed them as ideological brothers in the struggle against Western imperialism and colonialism – and, more generally, regarded the Arabs as perpetual victims of the West. This mindset translated into indifference to the suffering of Christian Arabs. These Leftists and 'liberals' looked at Christian Arabs with suspicion, viewing them as projections of the Christian West and its values and possible abettors of Western political and military power. Perhaps the root of the widespread Western indifference to the suffering and fate of Christians in the Middle East lies beyond the restrictive purview of religion or its absence. Perhaps ideas and ideologies, of any sort, no longer play a significant role in the lives of most people in the West. Perhaps in the Age of Ideology, when socialism and communism flourished, the reality of an encompassing collective present and the prospect of a collective future, and a sense of class or national or racial brotherhood, were common coin. But in today's West these are relics of a long-gone past. And, of course, domestic political and economic calculations also come to bear when considering voicing a protest or calling for political or military intervention to save Christians in the Arab lands. Anger in your own country or neighbourhood may well lead to violence. The economic clout of Arab countries, significant in our age of oil and petrodollars, must also be taken into consideration when contemplating acts that may be painted as anti-Muslim or anti-Arab. So Western Christians keep their peace in the face of oppression or even genocide in the Middle East – unless, of course, the victims happen to be Arabs, in which case the Western Christian conscience is quickly stirred to righteous protest and rhetoric, and even action.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Another cold front coming to Florida but what about snow, freezing temps? What to expect
Another storm is moving across the United States, but Florida residents won't see the Arctic blast that brought record snowfall and frigid temperatures to the Sunshine State last week. The storm that brought some welcome rain to California is forecast to bring rain, snow and ice along a 2,600 swath from Long Beach, California, to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, according to AccuWeather. ➤ Weather alerts via text: Sign up to get updates about current storms and weather events by location Florida residents won't have to worry about snow, or even freezing temperatures from what's expected to be a weak cold front here, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management. A weak cold front is forecast to push through the Interstate 4 corridor and South Florida through Thursday. The lack of moisture will limit showers, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Expect mostly sunny and dry conditions across the state through Thursday. "Pleasant and calm conditions can be expected throughout the state, and temperatures will return much more near normal to slightly above normal for this time of year." Scattered showers and thunderstorms associated with a cold front are forecast to move into the Panhandle Friday morning and early afternoon, then move east across the Big Bend and into the Suwannee Valley. A few strong thunderstorms along the Panhandle and Big Bend are possible and may bring lightning, gusty winds of 40 to 50 mph, and heavy downpours. The cold front will continue to weaken overnight Friday and into Saturday as it moves through Northeast Florida and toward the I-4 corridor. By Saturday morning, there is a slight chance for isolated showers across the I-4 corridor and Central Florida, with a possibility of a stray shower or two across South Florida, according to the Florida Division of Emergency Management. Florida temperatures into the weekend call for: Thursday: High 67. Low 64 Friday: High 70. Low 51 Saturday: High 66. Low 50 Sunday: High 68. Low 52 Thursday: High 74. Low 56 Friday: High 74. Low 60 Saturday: High 73. Low 49 Sunday: High 75. Low 50 Thursday: High 70. Low 56 Friday: High 80. Low 58 Saturday: High 71. Low 53 Sunday: High 73. Low 53 Thursday: High 70. Low 57 Friday: High 75. Low 60 Saturday: High 69. Low 59 Sunday: High 72. Low 59 Thursday: High 74. Low 61 Friday: High 78. Low 60 Saturday: High 77. Low 64 Sunday: High 77. Low 63 Thursday: High 75. Low 61 Friday: High 79. Low 60 Saturday: High 78. Low 65 Sunday: High 78. Low 64 Thursday: High 75. Low 65 Friday: High 78. Low 63 Saturday: High 78. Low 67 Sunday: High 78. Low 67 Thursday: High: 75. Low 70 Friday: High: 76. Low 66 Saturday: High: 78. Low 70 Sunday: High: 77. Low 70 Thursday: High: 75. Low 70 Friday: High: 76. Low 69 Saturday: High: 79. Low 70 Sunday: High: 78. Low 71 Thursday: High: 77. Low 82 Friday: High: 75. Low 62 Saturday: High: 75. Low 64 Sunday: High: 76. Low 63 Thursday: High: 82. Low 61 Friday: High: 80. Low 63 Saturday: High: 79. Low 64 Sunday: High: 82. Low 63 Thursday: High: 75. Low 61 Friday: High: 72. Low 64 Saturday: High: 72. Low 62 Sunday: High: 74. Low 62 Thursday: High: 78. Low 59 Friday: High: 81. Low 63 Saturday: High: 75. Low 62 Sunday: High: 78. Low 61 Thursday: High: 79. Low 59 Friday: High: 82. Low 63 Saturday: High: 75. Low 62 Sunday: High: 79. Low 61 We will continue to update our weather coverage as conditions warrant. Download your local site's app to ensure you're always connected to the news. And look for our special subscription offers here. This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Winter storm moving across US. See Florida forecast, weak cold front
