Big ups to Bill O’Reilly for giving me the heads up that lesbian gangs are terrorizing America, raping young girls, indoctrinating children in the homosexual lifestyle, and beating the crap out of unsuspecting males. Since O’Reilly’s shocking June 21 report, I haven’t dared venture outside alone. I fear for my parents in Philadelphia where O’Reilly reports that “a lesbian gang called DTO, Dykes Taking Over, are allegedly terrorizing people as well."

Here’s O’Reilly, in the words of Radley Balko, “proving once again that when you're a conservative talk show host, the plural of anecdote is panic!”

In the weeks since O’Reilly and Fox News crime analyst Rod Wheeler alerted us to the “pink pistol-packing” gangbangers, the Southern Poverty Law Center has done a little follow-up. Turns out Wheeler’s claim that there are “well over 150” lesbian gangs in the D.C. area alone doesn’t really stand up:
 

These claims are, as Wheeler suggested, "very, very interesting." They're also very, very flimsy. Gaithersburg, Md., Detective Patrick Word, president of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network, an intelligence-sharing organization of 400 criminal justice professionals in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, said there is no evidence whatsoever of a lesbian gang epidemic in his region. "Our membership reports only one lesbian gang," Word told the Intelligence Report.

Sgt. Brett Parson, a member and former commander of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, also questioned Wheeler's numbers. "We have 150 to 175 total gangs in the D.C. area, and out of those only nine where the predominance of members are female," he said. "You simply can't make the jump that they are lesbians. I think it is fair to talk about violence and female gangs. But to sensationalize or marginalize a community by making a statement like that seems irresponsible."

Irresponsible is how they like their journalism over at Fox News.