Six Months Into 2021 and DC Crime Data is Exactly What You Expect

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are feeling marginalized due to being effectively disenfranchised. Once statehood is realized (i.e., State if Washington, Douglass Commonwealth comes into being) a lot of these crimes will simply stop happening.

Statehood will be the biggest step forward since Home Rule, and will have many positive effects on other aspects of District life.

Hilarious!

John (to his co-conspirators): Heading out tonight to jack a car. Whose with me?

Jake: I'm in. I've got my piece.

Sam: Me, too.

Colin: Wait.... what is the status of the DC Statehood bill? If that has passed, I say we forget it.

LOVE THIS! TY for the smiles

[Anonymous]

Yes - the young criminal jacking your car, dealing crack, or holding you at gunpoint for your wallet is surely concerned first and foremost with DC statehood.


The only reason he/she turned to a life of crime was frustration from not being able to vote for their own senator in the last election (in which they certainly participated, without a doubt, as it is every criminal’s civic duty to vote).

[Anonymous]

It's as unlikely the young carjackers are concerned with statehood as that their names are Jake, John, Sam and Colin. Too funny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Homicides and Car Theft up 13% and 29% respectively, everything else is about the same as last year.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Big problem is that summer is just getting started.

It’s not just that crime is up. It’s that the criminals have become much more brazen. The theft of Mary Cheh’s car in broad daylight. The murder of the Uber eats driver. The shooting of the mom and child in Logan. The drive by shooting in Cleveland Park. Criminals know they have the upper hand after all the BLM/defund the police protests. We are not far off from being San Francisco where thief's just walk into stores and take what they want. Wake up people.

Don't vote for any poiltician going to defund the police. I don't care if there are 1-2 bad people, improve the working culture of LE but reducing it for everyone is a sure shot way of losing the election.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Homicides and Car Theft up 13% and 29% respectively, everything else is about the same as last year.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Big problem is that summer is just getting started.

It’s not just that crime is up. It’s that the criminals have become much more brazen. The theft of Mary Cheh’s car in broad daylight. The murder of the Uber eats driver. The shooting of the mom and child in Logan. The drive by shooting in Cleveland Park. Criminals know they have the upper hand after all the BLM/defund the police protests. We are not far off from being San Francisco where thief's just walk into stores and take what they want. Wake up people.

I am not a gun person, but I did feel safer living in a place that had looser gun laws than DC where the criminals at least had to wonder what they were walking in to.

Here the criminals carry and they know that regular taxpayers do not, so we're sitting ducks.

[Anonymous]

It's like you all ignore why people commit crime. Like there's some John Wayne fantasy about being a badass and defeating the bad guys.

Why do you think people in the Hamptons don't commit street crime? Martha's Vineyard? Because of police presence?? Strict law enforcement on them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Homicides and Car Theft up 13% and 29% respectively, everything else is about the same as last year.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Big problem is that summer is just getting started.

It’s not just that crime is up. It’s that the criminals have become much more brazen. The theft of Mary Cheh’s car in broad daylight. The murder of the Uber eats driver. The shooting of the mom and child in Logan. The drive by shooting in Cleveland Park. Criminals know they have the upper hand after all the BLM/defund the police protests. We are not far off from being San Francisco where thief's just walk into stores and take what they want. Wake up people.

I am not a gun person, but I did feel safer living in a place that had looser gun laws than DC where the criminals at least had to wonder what they were walking in to.

Here the criminals carry and they know that regular taxpayers do not, so we're sitting ducks.

I'd like to see the stats now since guns are legal. Maybe the criminals shouldn't be so confident

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's like you all ignore why people commit crime. Like there's some John Wayne fantasy about being a badass and defeating the bad guys.

Why do you think people in the Hamptons don't commit street crime? Martha's Vineyard? Because of police presence?? Strict law enforcement on them?

What if you move 10,000 young kids from 12-19 from DC to there? Will the crimes follow the people?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like you all ignore why people commit crime. Like there's some John Wayne fantasy about being a badass and defeating the bad guys.

Why do you think people in the Hamptons don't commit street crime? Martha's Vineyard? Because of police presence?? Strict law enforcement on them?

What if you move 10,000 young kids from 12-19 from DC to there? Will the crimes follow the people?

No. Some places have magic dirt that make their inhabitants behave and some have tragic dirt. It has nothing to do with the people living there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Car thefts you can disregard as that is property crime and not the city's concern (that is why you have car insurance).

Homicide should be coming down once we recover from the Trump hang over. The marginalized are already feeling far more empowered and those crimes are falling. Give the present administration six months.

LOL at the idea that homicide is caused by the "marginalized" feeling "disempowered" by Trump. Homicide is caused by lack of funding and support for the police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Car thefts you can disregard as that is property crime and not the city's concern (that is why you have car insurance).

Homicide should be coming down once we recover from the Trump hang over. The marginalized are already feeling far more empowered and those crimes are falling. Give the present administration six months.

LOL at the idea that homicide is caused by the "marginalized" feeling "disempowered" by Trump. Homicide is caused by lack of funding and support for the police.

Or you both could be wrong? Murderers are not somehow people that are hard done by, but also there is little to no correlation between police funding and murder or even violent crime rates. There is a much closer relationship to leaded gasoline exposure, but that is another story.

[Anonymous]

Imagine closing on a million dollar row house in Brightwood and a month or two later have a triple homicide drive by shooting happen at 7:30 PM at the neighborhood park.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/five-people-shot-in-northwest-washington-authorities-say/2021/09/04/7ff97f7e-0ddd-11ec-9781-07796ffb56fe_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's like you all ignore why people commit crime. Like there's some John Wayne fantasy about being a badass and defeating the bad guys.

Why do you think people in the Hamptons don't commit street crime? Martha's Vineyard? Because of police presence?? Strict law enforcement on them?

They don’t have to commit street crimes. They are much more savvy and smart. They commit white collar crimes, insider trading, and tax avoidance schemes and make much more money doing it. Meanwhile the poor trash in the hood join gangs, deal drugs and shoot each other. It’s all about culture and education. Be a smart criminal that does not get caught or be a dumb criminal that does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like you all ignore why people commit crime. Like there's some John Wayne fantasy about being a badass and defeating the bad guys.

Why do you think people in the Hamptons don't commit street crime? Martha's Vineyard? Because of police presence?? Strict law enforcement on them?

They don’t have to commit street crimes. They are much more savvy and smart. They commit white collar crimes, insider trading, and tax avoidance schemes and make much more money doing it. Meanwhile the poor trash in the hood join gangs, deal drugs and shoot each other. It’s all about culture and education. Be a smart criminal that does not get caught or be a dumb criminal that does.

This is how moral relativism drives excuse making. /\

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine closing on a million dollar row house in Brightwood and a month or two later have a triple homicide drive by shooting happen at 7:30 PM at the neighborhood park.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/five-people-shot-in-northwest-washington-authorities-say/2021/09/04/7ff97f7e-0ddd-11ec-9781-07796ffb56fe_story.html

Ridiculous but par or the course for that neighborhood sadly. When I typically pass through that neighborhood there is always a police cruiser parked on the sidewalk on 7th and Kennedy. Guess there presence doesn't matter.