DC crime stats - holy Toledo
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Anonymous
Why not, if DC a isn’t willing to pay for the upgrades needed. This came out at a chine town crime town hall where an exec with monument base at said Chinatown is unsafe and they don’t want to be in a location people don’t want to come visit. |
Anonymous
| I think there was a stat published a few years ago that by the time a dc resident is arrested for murder, they have already been arrested (on average) 11 times. So there is some merit to pre trial lock up, and tougher sentencing for more minor crimes. |
Anonymous
She is quite literally the only grownup in the room saddled with a Council that controls all this. You can thank the city Council for dumping thousands of hardened felons on the streets and hobbling the police. Where did the Mayor "abdicate" doing what she is able to do? Do you expect her to announce martial law? |
Anonymous
The DC Council votes on the budget. The DC council has routinely reduced policing numbers that the Mayor has asked for |
Anonymous
WRONG. In about 50% of US counties, violent crime and murder is not up. In fact if you go on ten year trend, which is more accurate given the outlier event of Covid, DC violent crime is 230% of what it was 10 years ago, whereas average for US cities is up only 42%. DC is a city experience a particularly large increase in violent crime -- a violent crime wave. |
Anonymous
Maybe not when your kids were there. But DCPS in the past five years is completely off the rails with the grievance agenda. Just take a look at the suggested summer reading lists. They are poisoning these kids and we a witnessing the consequences. |
Anonymous
+1 And the reason for promoting the grievance agenda and dividing kids by race and background, as DCPS and teachers unions now cravenly do, is to distract from the fact that DCPS kids performance in math, English and science has plummeted relative to national average, even controlled for income, race etc. It is the same as the real reason for the "gap" being the fundamental metric DCPS uses as well as, it is to distract from the failures of DCPS. |
Anonymous
To appease elements of the WTU, the Mayor kept DCPS schools shuttered for about a school year longer than was necessary (per the science). I've yet to come across someone who can argue with a straight face that this was not at least partly responsible for the spike in youth crime. |
Anonymous
Yes. The council is making good on its unanimous promise to BLM to “defund the police.” The result is the massive uptick in violent street crime - which should come as a surprise to no one. |
Anonymous
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And what happens when they leave and we are in the same position as before? This so stupid. How about the council, the mayor, and prosecutors actually do their jobs?? Enact policies that prevent repeat offenders from being back on the streets immediately, and prosecute crime. It isn't rocket science, ffs. |
Anonymous
Could a contributing factor also be fewer alternative school seats (Wash Met closure) plus the closure of several charter middle/high schools in high poverty areas? Those schools may not have been meeting the mark academically but the families advocating for them to stay open cited the importance of those schools for keeping their students out of trouble. |
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