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New York City:
Homicide per 100,000: 5.7

Cleveland:
Homicide per 100,000: 48.6

2021, CDC statistics; City of Cleveland Violene and Injury Data Report, 2017-2021

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 18, 2023

I get the pleasure of making Gym Jordan look like a chump.

A recent study found New York City to be the fifth safest big city in America, while Cleveland -- right next to Jim Jordan's district -- ranked as the seventh most dangerous city.

And yet Jordan is complaining about crimes in NYC. https://t.co/7yjpxlHYdO pic.twitter.com/Iivn1QZbXZ

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 17, 2023

But this is turning into an internet meme.

"In 2022, Bragg’s first year in office, there were 78 homicides in Manhattan, a borough of 1.6 million people. That was a drop of 15% from the year before. Palm Beach County, Florida, where Trump is one of about 1.5 million residents, had 96 killings."https://t.co/TRZMCvPAAo

— Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) April 17, 2023

It is good for mockery.

Jessica: If they cared about crime, they would show up in a city where crime is worse than here
Dana: This is first of many hearings.
Jessica: I'm sure they will be in Jim Jordan's hometown and Kevin McCarthy’s hometown next. pic.twitter.com/pdA7nkQb6G

— Acyn (@Acyn) April 17, 2023

And mockery has its place.

But the point of Jordan’s investigation is to interfere with Bragg’s prosecution. His argument here is that Bragg’s office can’t prosecute more than one criminal case at a time: like in a TV show.

It’s a child’s argument. Even Bragg is only speaking out because he has a civil suit to pursue. That’s more political than legal, but he has to defend his position, and the best defense is a good offense, especially if he can drag Jordan into court and out of Congress.

All Jordan has is a child’s whine, and a child’s argument. It would probably be better to treat it as such, instead of engaging in statistics wars. He’s a joke. He’s a chump all on his own. Treat him as one.

Not unlike Elmo:

I'm going to start something which is called TruthGPT, or an absolute truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said. 

He reasoned AI would see people as an interesting part of the universe and decide not to "annihilate humans." 

Big tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft have spent years working on AI systems -- previously known as machine learning or big data -- to help with translations, search and targeted advertising. 

Musk said he was once close friends with Google co-founder Larry Page, and the two would talk about AI safety deep into the night. 

"He really seemed to want digital super-intelligence, basically digital god, as soon as possible," Musk said of Page. 

"You can't just go barrelling forward and hope for the best."

Musk is a deep thinker the way Clarence Thomas is an ethical jurist. Or a deep thinker, for that matter.