DC most murders now since 2002

[Anonymous]

Baltimore is now a more desirable city:

https://wjla.com/news/local/dc-crime-homicides-shooting-murder-kathy-henderson-anc-commissioner-district-city-mayor-muriel-bowser-metropolitan-police-department-national-guard

At this rate, the excusers won’t be able to use the argument anymore that “BuT But iT IsN’t As BAd aS ThE 90s!!”. DC is in full blown regression. The council and voters are entirely responsible for the mess they created. Watch as business starts closing or flees because visitors stop patronizing the city. The tax base crumbles and then property values will follow. DC is on a warpath to repeating the same mistakes Baltimore did a long time ago.

[Anonymous]

Year's not over yet and the number of daytime shootouts and armed robberies in formerly considered to be safe areas have been increasing.

Higher interest rates are a bit of a factor holding people in place. But won't hold forever.

People were near the shooting on Columbia Road Sunday afternoon with young kids, same was true for the triple shooting near RI metro last night after 6. People don't want their kids wading through blood on the evening commute.

[Anonymous]

Do you all go to some sort of night school to learn to speech in such dramatics?

wading through blood on the evening commute

[Anonymous]

How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

Voters need to stop giving the same party carte Blanche to do whatever they want. Elect in some republicans and/or independents. It’s just an echo chamber of Yes peop,e who get no pushback at all on their completely asinine policies. Gridlock needs to be introduced into the govt so they’ll need to compromise with more moderate, common sense approaches to policing, public safety and crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

We know the solution to reduce crime. It is now derogated as “mass incarceration” and policy makers in DC and many other jurisdictions view it as worse than tolerating the increased crime that necessarily results from “decarceration”. It’s not an unprincipled position, but it’s one that few would support if it were acknowledge forthrightly, so we get lies and gaslighting instead. But the government knows how to reduce crime; it just doesn’t want to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you all go to some sort of night school to learn to speech in such dramatics?

wading through blood on the evening commute

Attempted murder with more than 30 shots fired at 6PM on a commuter route is nbd to you. Got it.

One thing to note for the OP: the “it was worse in the 90s” crew got mocked and bullied into giving up that lie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you all go to some sort of night school to learn to speech in such dramatics?

wading through blood on the evening commute

Attempted murder with more than 30 shots fired at 6PM on a commuter route is nbd to you. Got it.

One thing to note for the OP: the “it was worse in the 90s” crew got mocked and bullied into giving up that lie.

Again, you seem to really excel in exaggeration and distortion. Nobody said that and you are a moron for not being able to talk without using such extremes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you all go to some sort of night school to learn to speech in such dramatics?

wading through blood on the evening commute

Attempted murder with more than 30 shots fired at 6PM on a commuter route is nbd to you. Got it.

One thing to note for the OP: the “it was worse in the 90s” crew got mocked and bullied into giving up that lie.

Again, you seem to really excel in exaggeration and distortion. Nobody said that and you are a moron for not being able to talk without using such extremes.

Keeping shrugging off 250 murders through 11 months.

[Anonymous]

Back in the 1990s DC and New Orleans (comparable populations) both struggled with high murder rates. Hopefully this year is an anomaly and we're not returning to that era..

[Anonymous]

Congratulations, DC! Elections have consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

More bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

Direct result of the two year fully shutdown govt during COVID. DC and CA were the last places to re-open.
Children/ Youth lost maturity, and science demonstrates their brains were dramatically affected.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

I believe in violence interrupters, they help preserve the community and the harms committed by the govt. People should not be punished on a draconian scale, because of governmental policies. Punish the government and not the people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

DC Crime Facts (https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/ and https://twitter.com/dccrimefacts) shares a lot of data that suggests lack of prosecution and enforcement of parole violations is a huge problem.