Violent crime in DC lowest in 30 years - watch it soar under Trump

[Anonymous]

Violent crime in DC is now lowest in 30 years.
Will be happy to be very wrong but I suspect that his highly divisive politics and dumb economic policies will lead to a new surge in crime …


“A year-end analysis of violent crime in the District shows the rate of violent incidents is at a 30-year low. According to a presentation from the U.S. Attorney's Office, violent crime overall has dropped 35% over last year, from 5,215 incidents in 2023 to 3,388 so far in 2024. Homicide is down 30%”
https://wtop.com/crime/2024/12/violent-crime-in-dc-is-lowest-level-in-30-years/

[Anonymous]

There are 185 homicides so far, which is only best since 2019.

Who creates this nonsense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Violent crime in DC is now lowest in 30 years.
Will be happy to be very wrong but I suspect that his highly divisive politics and dumb economic policies will lead to a new surge in crime …


“A year-end analysis of violent crime in the District shows the rate of violent incidents is at a 30-year low. According to a presentation from the U.S. Attorney's Office, violent crime overall has dropped 35% over last year, from 5,215 incidents in 2023 to 3,388 so far in 2024. Homicide is down 30%”
https://wtop.com/crime/2024/12/violent-crime-in-dc-is-lowest-level-in-30-years/

Yes, 3/4 of DC is mostly safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are 185 homicides so far, which is only best since 2019.

Who creates this nonsense?

Sorry reading comprehension is not your forte:

Link was provided in OP.

“These statistics, which will be finalized after the year is over, have been compiled on the Metropolitan Police website.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are 185 homicides so far, which is only best since 2019.

Who creates this nonsense?

Sorry reading comprehension is not your forte:

Link was provided in OP.

“These statistics, which will be finalized after the year is over, have been compiled on the Metropolitan Police website.”

What do you think you are correcting? Click on the links and you can get to the actual numbers and PP was right.

[Anonymous]

185 murders. Up from 105 in 2014.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are 185 homicides so far, which is only best since 2019.

Who creates this nonsense?

Sorry reading comprehension is not your forte:

Link was provided in OP.

“These statistics, which will be finalized after the year is over, have been compiled on the Metropolitan Police website.”

What do you think you are correcting? Click on the links and you can get to the actual numbers and PP was right.

About what? The Q that he or she asked was “who created this nonsense” - that was evident in the article cited.

[Anonymous]

^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

[Anonymous]

LOL - 62 square miles.

What a record to worship!

[Anonymous]

It's kind of dumb to lump all of DC together. It would be akin to saying that North Arlington is unsafe because of murders in Alexandria. The stats show that upper NW is as safe as the safest suburbs in this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's kind of dumb to lump all of DC together. It would be akin to saying that North Arlington is unsafe because of murders in Alexandria. The stats show that upper NW is as safe as the safest suburbs in this area.

North Arlington and Alexandria are different jurisdictions. DC is one jurisdiction.

You are correct about the relative safety of NWDC. NWDC is also much whiter than surrounding suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Keep believing the lies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.

Nono don’t think everyone knows that. Please cite your source.

Everyone I know considers rape, car jacking and armed robberies to represent violent crime: the only thing u replicable about rape stats is that they are heavily under reported .

[Anonymous]

These statistics are dubious due to underreporting of violent crime and a completely incompetent prosecutors office. IMO, the only reliable indicator of violent crime is the murder rate. Being murdered is a more objective indicator of crime that is less subject to manipulation and underreporting.