Carjackings down 23 percent YTD in DC, down 50 percent in Ward 3 and 82 percent in Ward 2

[Anonymous]

It felt like I wasn't hearing about carjackings as much as last year, so I went to look up the statistics. They are indeed down.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/carjacking

[Anonymous]

When you stop doing anything to those people your stats tend to go down.

[Anonymous]

Wow, guess y'all will be better than Baltimore this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, guess y'all will be better than Baltimore this year.

It’s early. Give us time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you stop doing anything to those people your stats tend to go down.

Huh?

[Anonymous]

People are driving and parking a lot more defensively these days.

[Anonymous]

It was a historic pace last year that we’d never maintain. They’re still insanely high compared to pre-2020.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t the port of Baltimore closed right now? Nowhere to take them.

[Anonymous]

Must be the liberal policies that have reduced crime so much! I mean if they were to blane for the increase then why wouldn’t they be the reason for a decrease? Go ahead and do your rhetorical dance so that you can find a way to blame “defund the police” or other political reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a historic pace last year that we’d never maintain. They’re still insanely high compared to pre-2020.

yeah still double the average, but the right direction.

My guess is that they fixed the Kia issue and maybe busted some of the ringleaders who were selling the cars.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Must be the liberal policies that have reduced crime so much! I mean if they were to blane for the increase then why wouldn’t they be the reason for a decrease? Go ahead and do your rhetorical dance so that you can find a way to blame “defund the police” or other political reasons.

Where have you been the last year? The decrease is because the public outcry consigned “defund the police” to the historical dustbin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a historic pace last year that we’d never maintain. They’re still insanely high compared to pre-2020.

yeah still double the average, but the right direction.

My guess is that they fixed the Kia issue and maybe busted some of the ringleaders who were selling the cars.

Maybe the dumb kids got another year older and another year wiser and found less terrible things to do for fun.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It was a historic pace last year that we’d never maintain. They’re still insanely high compared to pre-2020.

yeah still double the average, but the right direction.

My guess is that they fixed the Kia issue and maybe busted some of the ringleaders who were selling the cars.

Maybe the dumb kids got another year older and another year wiser and found less terrible things to do for fun.

Spend any time online and “freecar” is still a thing.

[Anonymous]

Obviously all the carjackers were 24 year olds last year but their brains fully developed this year and they gave up crime. Charles Allen was right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Must be the liberal policies that have reduced crime so much! I mean if they were to blane for the increase then why wouldn’t they be the reason for a decrease? Go ahead and do your rhetorical dance so that you can find a way to blame “defund the police” or other political reasons.

Where have you been the last year? The decrease is because the public outcry consigned “defund the police” to the historical dustbin.

So then the problem is solved and we don’t have to swing the pendulum back towards increasing penalties, right? What specific legislation is responsible for this shift?