Some Red State/Blue State Indicia

Crime almost certainly fell considerably in the United States in the first six months of 2025. The decline in crime that began in 2023 and picked up steam in 2024 has accelerated even faster so far in 2025. Both violent and property crime likely fell with large drops in both murder and motor vehicle theft leading the way.

The national decline in murder stands out due to extraordinary drops in many cities. New Orleans recorded fewer murders through June 2025 than any year since 1970 even in spite of the January 1st terrorist attack. New York City has only recorded fewer murders once through June since 1960 (136 in 2017). Philadelphia recorded the fewest murders since 1969, Los Angeles since 1966, Baltimore since 1965, Detroit since 1964, and San Francisco had the fewest ever recorded (monthly data available to 1960).

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Assessing Crime At Midyear

The trends aren't set in stone but they are clearly established.
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CENTREVILLE, Ala. — Inside a small Presbyterian church off the courthouse square, a few dozen people packed the pews on a hot summer evening, their faces a mix of sweat and tears. There were Baptists and Methodists and some who claimed no denomination at all, heads bowed and eyes closed in a rare show of interfaith unity amid criminal allegations considered so evil that some openly wondered if Satan himself had taken up residence here.


Days earlier, just across the street, Bibb County Sheriff Jody Wade said his office had uncovered an alleged child sex trafficking ring operating from a concrete bunker behind a home on the dusty outskirts of Brent, an adjacent town of about 3,000 people located an hour south of Birmingham. At least 10 children between the ages of 3 and 15 were allegedly victimized.

Over a period spanning at least three years, the children had been taken to the bunker, a structure on the edge of a wooded area that had been originally built as an underground storm shelter in a region known for destructive tornadoes.

But that refuge of safety was transformed into a den of horrors, according to Wade. The children were allegedly drugged and abused in an operation that included sex trafficking, torture and acts so cruel that Wade said they led to him to question humanity. Seven people were arrested and charged with a laundry list of crimes, including numerous charges of rape, sexual abuse, trafficking and kidnapping. The defendants include the parents of at least four victims.

Wade has repeatedly warned that the revelations are likely only “scratching the surface,” with additional victims and more arrests expected. “I know God’s forgiveness is boundless, but if there was a limit to it, I think we reached it,” he said, describing the situation as the worst case of child abuse he has seen in his career.

The announcement stunned the communities of Brent and Centreville. The sister cities are on the rural county backroads of central Alabama, a region where churches are almost as prolific as the kudzu vines swallowing much of the summer landscape. For some, the allegations of something so sinister happening in their own backyard has been a test of their deep faith, an acknowledgment of how small towns and rural communities have changed and how systems intended to protect vulnerable children often fail to do so.

 
REEDVILLE, Va. — Aboard a small motorboat, the trio of researchers navigated the waters of Chesapeake Bay. It was two hours into their trip, and there was no sign of what they’d come looking for.

They watched and waited, at one point plucking a plastic bottle from the water. The researchers, based out of Georgetown University, were accustomed to long stretches with nothing but birds and fishing boats as far as the eye could see.

Then at 9:43 a.m. on this recent Thursday, Verena Conkin, the leader of the team, saw a splash through her binoculars. Kelly Bates, another researcher, thrust the vessel forward. Five splashes of gray popped above the surface. Those same splashes kept coming in roughly 45-second intervals as the team’s boat, the Ahoya, kept pace.

The researchers had found their subjects: Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphins that call the waters around Chesapeake Bay home. Researchers estimate at least 500 to 600 of these dolphins have regularly visited the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay over the past decade, with one sighting dating back to the 19th century.

Scientists don’t have definitive answers as to why the dolphins, which can survive in both salt and brackish water, have lived, mated and even given birth in these waters. Researchers say that the number of newborns they have observed is significant because it suggests the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay could be an important habitat for them. Cleanup efforts in the past decade probably also contributed to making the waters more hospitable.



Dolphins are wonderful animals. They are very social and seem to like connecting with humans.
 
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Honestly I think this is reasonable governance in this case by the Texas Dems. If you know that the majority party is about to harm your constituents by changing their legislative district to effectively disenfranchise them, I think using any tool in your arsenal should be expected. Before anybody asks, I’d support CA Republicans making a similar stand if it were a way to delay such a step.
 
mqt said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1952115496540569887

Honestly I think this is reasonable governance in this case by the Texas Dems. If you know that the majority party is about to harm your constituents by changing their legislative district to effectively disenfranchise them, I think using any tool in your arsenal should be expected. Before anybody asks, I’d support CA Republicans making a similar stand if it were a way to delay such a step.
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I wish dems understood that their side was the one who started this war.

There really isn't much of a retaliation to be had here. So yes, hysterics is probably effective for their voters
 
sturg33 said:
I wish dems understood that their side was the one who started this war.

There really isn't much of a retaliation to be had here. So yes, hysterics is probably effective for their voters
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their side ?
hows bouts you reword that to say

"the side that wants to feed and provide health care to the citizenry had to flee the state to insure those with out a voice receive their fair share of protection "

I for ,sone do my part and vote for that in every election as opposed to you who votes to line the pockets of those that you blindly hope will give you the time of day
Get a grip, stay healthy and remember we are all one bad break from the brink
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Hysterics . You are calling care for others ( empathy ?) hysterics

Oh yeah, have never seen that receipt for $10,000
 
57Brave said:
their side ?
hows bouts you reword that to say

"the side that wants to feed and provide health care to the citizenry had to flee the state to insure those with out a voice receive their fair share of protection "

I for ,sone do my part and vote for that in every election as opposed to you who votes to line the pockets of those that you blindly hope will give you the time of day
Get a grip, stay healthy and remember we are all one bad break from the brink
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Hysterics . You are calling care for others ( empathy ?) hysterics

Oh yeah, have never seen that receipt for $10,000
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Do you believe gerrymandering districts is bad and anti democratic?
 
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