re: #113 Timothy Watson

This is totally the reason.

Back in the ’90s and ’00s, there was a lot of street crime (muggings, assaults, etc.) in Washington, D.C. The local media couldn’t be bothered to report on it.

But then a couple local reporters got mugged and it’s was a story for weeks about the ‘raging street crime epidemic’ and how traumatizing it was to be a victim, etc., etc.

Kind of like the R’s in Congress suddenly cared about gun violence after they got shot at.