Federalizing DC: How Fake Crime Stats Create Real Crime w/John Lott
The Carl Jackson Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this episode of The Carl Jackson Show, we delve into the controversial topic of federalizing the DC police force. Join Carl Jackson and guest John Lott as they discuss the implications of this move, the manipulation of crime statistics, and the broader impact on national safety. With crime rates soaring and public trust waning, is federal intervention the solution? Tune in to explore the complexities and potential outcomes of this significant policy shift. #Federalization #DCPolice #CrimeStats
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| 0:00.0 | All right, welcome back to the Carl Jackson show your daily dose of objective truth and a world of confusion and lies. |
| 0:11.4 | Guys, here's my opinion. |
| 0:12.6 | Fake crime stats create more crime. |
| 0:14.9 | If you don't arrest and prosecute criminals, you're going to get more crime. |
| 0:19.4 | The left and the D.C. media are lying about the crime stats in DC. |
| 0:23.5 | We'll talk about that with my guest coming up. And actually, let's go to him now. I'm speaking of none, no one other than John, a lot. More guns, less crime. You know the book. Crimeresearch.org. |
| 0:40.1 | John, welcome to the program program i appreciate you coming on oh it's that's great to talk to you carl thank you for having me on okay so john |
| 0:46.2 | i got to tell you right off the bat initially when i heard about trump federalizing dc i got a little |
| 0:51.6 | nervous i looked at the weaponization of the DOJ under the Democrats, |
| 0:56.2 | quite frankly. And then I was like, do we want to do that? And then I'm like, okay, yeah, it actually |
| 1:01.5 | makes sense. This is something that was done way back in the day. Obviously, D.C. is a district. |
| 1:09.1 | They don't have a governor. They have a mayor. |
| 1:11.7 | Crime is out of control. |
| 1:14.0 | And the stats are a little iffy. |
| 1:16.9 | Let me get your take. |
| 1:19.1 | Our initial take. |
| 1:19.8 | I mean, this is nothing new in the sense that up until the 70s, as you say, the district |
| 1:26.7 | Columbia was a federal district. |
| 1:29.2 | Congress ran it. |
| 1:31.3 | It actually was run pretty well at the time there. |
| 1:36.1 | And, you know, it hasn't really had too much of a problem until the last 15 years or so. |
| 1:42.3 | But, you know, many people are pointing to the drop in crime that's occurred recently. |
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