Number of D.C. children shot and killed this year is up 133 percent so far this year

[Anonymous]

14 children killed so far this year. That's on top of 76 non-fatal shootings of juveniles. We're now way above prepandemic levels.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

We know tomorrow is election day, OP.

[Anonymous]

Paging Karl Racine....paging Charles Allen...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paging Karl Racine....paging Charles Allen...

Glad you recognize MPD doesn't help in preventing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Paging Karl Racine....paging Charles Allen...

Glad you recognize MPD doesn't help in preventing this.

Seems like this is mostly on our city council. They're the ones who make it so difficult to prosecute anyone.

[Anonymous]

This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc. But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way. There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Paging Karl Racine....paging Charles Allen...

They. Don’t. Care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

Stop electing left wing nut jobs who don't care *at all* about crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

Stop electing left wing nut jobs who don't care *at all* about crime.

Go back to Alabama

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc. But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way. There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.

Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc. But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way. There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.

Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar.

That would be like have 20 police officers in the entire city paid at minimum wage with 1980s equipment and saying "see? We've tried policing, and golly, it's just not effective!"

We're just barely starting with violence interrupters in a limited manner and they do not appear to be funded anywhere near where DC police officers are funded even though they go into much more dangerous situations unprotected.

[Anonymous]

Louisiana came in first as the most dangerous state in the nation with a violent crime rate of 564 per 100,000 people and had 738 murders in 2021. At the bottom of the list was Kansas with a violent crime rate of 345.8 per 100,000 people and 141 murders last year.Oct 18, 2022

Alabama has the second-highest murder rate of 12.9 murders per 100,000 residents. This is also more than twice the rate nationwide. In Alabama, Birmingham has the most gun violence and, therefore, the highest murder rate of 37.1. Fairfield, Anniston, Pritchard, and Troy are other cities with the highest murder rates in Alabama.

Mississippi has the third-highest murder rate in the United States. Mississippi’s murder rate is 12.7 murders per 100,000 residents. According to the latest FBI data, Jackson had the most murders in 2018 of 78, which is a murder rate of 47 murders per 100,000 residents. Brookhaven has the highest murder rate in the state of 57.7 murders per 100,000 people.

Missouri has the fourth-highest murder rate of 11.3 murders per 100,000 residents. Murders in Missouri are disproportionately concentrated in metropolitan areas – about 90% of murders committed in 2017 in Missouri were committed in metropolitan areas. St. Louis and Kansas City are two of the most dangerous cities in the United States. In 2017, St. Louis had 205 murders and Kansas City had 150.

Alaska has the fifth-highest murder rate in the U.S. with a rate of 10.6 murders per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate of any state of 829 incidents per 100,000 residents. The most dangerous city in Alaska is Anchorage, where the violent crime rate is 1,203 per 100,000 residents and 27 people were murdered in 2017.

Mississippi has the third-highest murder rate in the United States. Mississippi’s murder rate is 12.7 murders per 100,000 residents. According to the latest FBI data, Jackson had the most murders in 2018 of 78, which is a murder rate of 47 murders per 100,000 residents. Brookhaven has the highest murder rate in the state of 57.7 murders per 100,000 people.

Missouri has the fourth-highest murder rate of 11.3 murders per 100,000 residents. Murders in Missouri are disproportionately concentrated in metropolitan areas – about 90% of murders committed in 2017 in Missouri were committed in metropolitan areas. St. Louis and Kansas City are two of the most dangerous cities in the United States. In 2017, St. Louis had 205 murders and Kansas City had 150.

Alaska has the fifth-highest murder rate in the U.S. with a rate of 10.6 murders per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate of any state of 829 incidents per 100,000 residents. The most dangerous city in Alaska is Anchorage, where the violent crime rate is 1,203 per 100,000 residents and 27 people were murdered in 2017.

Mississippi has the third-highest murder rate in the United States. Mississippi’s murder rate is 12.7 murders per 100,000 residents. According to the latest FBI data, Jackson had the most murders in 2018 of 78, which is a murder rate of 47 murders per 100,000 residents. Brookhaven has the highest murder rate in the state of 57.7 murders per 100,000 people.

Missouri has the fourth-highest murder rate of 11.3 murders per 100,000 residents. Murders in Missouri are disproportionately concentrated in metropolitan areas – about 90% of murders committed in 2017 in Missouri were committed in metropolitan areas. St. Louis and Kansas City are two of the most dangerous cities in the United States. In 2017, St. Louis had 205 murders and Kansas City had 150.

Alaska has the fifth-highest murder rate in the U.S. with a rate of 10.6 murders per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate of any state of 829 incidents per 100,000 residents. The most dangerous city in Alaska is Anchorage, where the violent crime rate is 1,203 per 100,000 residents and 27 people were murdered in 2017.

Mississippi has the third-highest murder rate in the United States. Mississippi’s murder rate is 12.7 murders per 100,000 residents. According to the latest FBI data, Jackson had the most murders in 2018 of 78, which is a murder rate of 47 murders per 100,000 residents. Brookhaven has the highest murder rate in the state of 57.7 murders per 100,000 people.

Missouri has the fourth-highest murder rate of 11.3 murders per 100,000 residents. Murders in Missouri are disproportionately concentrated in metropolitan areas – about 90% of murders committed in 2017 in Missouri were committed in metropolitan areas. St. Louis and Kansas City are two of the most dangerous cities in the United States. In 2017, St. Louis had 205 murders and Kansas City had 150.

Alaska has the fifth-highest murder rate in the U.S. with a rate of 10.6 murders per 100,000 residents. Alaska has the highest violent crime rate of any state of 829 incidents per 100,000 residents. The most dangerous city in Alaska is Anchorage, where the violent crime rate is 1,203 per 100,000 residents and 27 people were murdered in 2017.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc. But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way. There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.

Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar.

That would be like have 20 police officers in the entire city paid at minimum wage with 1980s equipment and saying "see? We've tried policing, and golly, it's just not effective!"

We're just barely starting with violence interrupters in a limited manner and they do not appear to be funded anywhere near where DC police officers are funded even though they go into much more dangerous situations unprotected.

They aren’t going into dangerous situations in the way police officers are, nor should they be funded in the way police departments are. When someone gets held up at gun point they aren’t calling a violence interruptor, FFS. But keep thinking demonizing the police and wanting violence interruptors used in their place is the answer to crime, and don’t be shocked when the Republican party makes huge gains tomorrow in part because people are over the progressive approach to crime.