“If you can’t prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend that they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human
mind, hardly anybody will notice the difference.” Darrell Huff,
Writer, “How to Lie with Statistics”
August 20, 2025, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
If it’s not you, it doesn’t hurt as much. In fact, it doesn’t hurt at all.
Like when you’re a statistic.
If you are someone who lives in an apartment building taken over by Tren de Aragua gang members in Aurora, Colorado.
Or if you are lumped into statistics showing crime “went down” in Washington, D.C.
Who to trust?
Well, not ABC’s Martha Raddatz -- she’s a Left-leaning journalist. Or the mayor of Aurora, and he's a Republican.
In October 2024, Raddatz interviewed soon-to-be Vice President Vance. This was after Trump held a rally and said migrant gangs were taking over Aurora.
Raddatz angrily disagreed.
“The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,” she insisted. And the mayor of Aurora concurred.
Even after there was a video showing armed men breaking down a door in the Aurora Whispering Pines apartment complex.
And after a Denver law firm’s investigation disclosed that gang members had a “stranglehold” on the Whispering Pines complex, and were engaged in extortion, child prostitution and all sorts of other crimes.
“The city and state have not been ‘taken over’ or ‘invaded’ or ‘occupied’ by migrant gangs,” Mayor Coffman said dismissively after Trump’s rally.
“The incidents that have occurred in Aurora, a city of 400,000 people, have been limited to a handful of specific apartment complexes.”
“Handful,” he said.
And, just like that, the “handful” of people who lived in those apartments were marginalized.
“Martha, do you hear yourself?” Vance asked Raddatz during the interview.
“Only ‘a handful of apartment complexes’ in America were taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris’ open borders?”
Yeah. That’s what I was thinking.
This is emblematic of the curious tolerance Leftists and the media have with violence. And their resistance to bringing it to an end.
Bringing it to an end is what President Trump is doing in D.C., while D.C. Mayor Bower's response was to urge residents to “show the entire nation what it looks like to fight for American democracy,” whatever that means.
What we do know is in May, two employees of the Israeli Embassy in D.C, an engaged couple. were gunned down and killed.
In June, a 21-year-old intern, Eric Tarinian-Jachym, was shot and killed on his way to McDonalds in D.C.
And in August, 19-year-old former DOGE employee Edward Coristine, was viciously attacked by eight thugs.
But Bowser continued to quote statistics to claim crime is down in her city.
Down. But down from what? It's crazy.
In New York City, Debrina Kawam was burned alive on a New York city subway by a Guatemalan illegal immigrant.
On the same day, Gov. Hochul posted on X claiming subway crime had decreased as result of measures she took in March, which included increasing mental health services.
It’s simoly an unfortunate trend, and it starts in innocuous ways.
A current furniture store ad shows a child happily writing with a marking pen all over a new white couch.
The mom, smiling indulgently, removes the slipcover and pops it into the washer, the voice over joyfully stating, she will roll with it.
The message is brought home at the end of the ad when the parents jump up and down, with the child, on the beautiful new couch.
That doesn’t work.
What does work is what New York Mayor Giuliani did in the 1990s: Broken Windows.
Nip crime in the bud before it escalates into something more dangerous.
Start with something as small as a “broken window.”
Because indulging the small stuff, starts with writing on a couch with parental approval, to uncontrolled carjacking by teenagers, a crime which is rampant in D.C. today.
None of this is okay, no matter what statistics show.
Hold the line, Ameria.
Stay strong, Patriots.