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This is Sarah Stewart Holland.

And this is Beth Silvers.

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

Earlier this month, President Trump announced a federal takeover of Washington, D.C., due to a crime emergency.

The crime statistics tell a different story as cities across the country experience historic dropping crime rates, but a healthy majority of Americans still feel there is too much crime and broadly support how President

Trump is attempting to fix it. So we wanted to talk about all of that today before we turn as we

always do to what's on our mind outside of politics, which is the engagement of one, Taylor

Allison Swift, to Travis Michael Kelsey. Before we get started, it is a last call here for our summer substack sale.

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notes. Up next, let's talk about crime.

Music Beth, when you talk about crime, you inevitably have to talk about risk.

You have to talk about the perception of risk.

You have to talk about how fear can run roughshod over all of that. And nowhere is that more evident than with school shootings. Before we talk about D.C., we wanted to acknowledge that there was

a heartbreaking school shooting at a Minneapolis Catholic school yesterday that has left two children dead, as well as the

shooter and 20 people injured. This one hit really close to home for me, Beth, because it was

during prayer, the same as my school shooting back in 1997 that took place during the morning

prayer circle at my high school.

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