Top 1% pay ~50% of California taxes
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Faking Crime Stats, DC, and the National Guard in Austin
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Rogan observes that crime 'going down' is a political fiction in cities like LA and San Francisco, where residents have stopped calling 911 because no one responds, driving official numbers down artificially. Andreessen then delivers the bigger story: Washington D.C. police were caught overtly fabricating crime statistics all the way up to senior officers, with multiple people fired and indicted. He draws a parallel to grade inflation — once you measure something, the incentive to game the metric becomes overwhelming. The DC mayor's response to Trump's National Guard deployment is particularly striking: she publicly thanked him, because crime dropped off essentially overnight in most neighborhoods. The press reported this as 'soldiers sitting around doing nothing' — Andreessen points out they were doing something, it's called deterrence.
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