DC crime stats - holy Toledo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.

In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders.

This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256.

All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board.

The capital has already far eclipsed the staggering number of carjackings that took place there last year.

Worse yet, only 80 arrests have been made in connection with 2023’s 606 carjackings so far.

Prospects are so bleak that Trayon White Sr., a Democratic city councilman who originally voted to lower the criminal penalties for a number of serious infractions — including carjacking and armed carjacking — is now calling for the National Guard’s intervention in the carnage.

Imagine telling someone in June 2020, amidst the gnashing of teeth that accompanied Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for the National Guard’s use then, that a little over three years later, Democrats would be pining for the same.

Ironic, isn't it. And, I believe at least one NYTimes editor was forced to resign and one was reassigned after the publication of the OpEd.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/nyt-opinion-bennet-resigns-cotton-op-ed-306317

The New York Times announced on Sunday that its editorial page editor had resigned after backlash from the public and the company’s own employees over a Republican senator’s op-ed that called for using military force against recent rioters.

In a statement,The Times said that James Bennet had resigned and that Katie Kingsbury would serve as the acting editorial page editor through the November election. The deputy editorial page editor, Jim Dao, is being reassigned to the newsroom and is stepping off the masthead.

[Anonymous]

Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.

We cannot get to the long term solutions without the short term solution.
And, if you look at cities like SF and LA and NYC and see all the money they have spent on "homelessness" to no avail, you will see that their "solutions" are not working. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.

DC has some of the most generous social services in the country. They haven’t worked this far so something needs to change.

[Anonymous]

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Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.


DC has some of the most generous social services in the country. They haven’t worked this far so something needs to change.

They have not worked for decades because while there are lots of carrots, there are very few sticks. If people lost their public subsidies if their 13 yo engaged in multiple violent crimes (like a 3 strikes law), there would be an uptick in parental oversight. In addition, no politician is willing to criticize the personal choices and lack of responsible parenting that is a significant causation factor. Everything is "society's" fault. I can believe in systemic societal causes AND expect personal responsibility. The two are not mutually exclusive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone. In 2022, Ward 3 had a Dem primary candidate, Eric Goulet, who had a much tougher stance on crime than Frumin. Goulet was pilloried by the progressives as being "Republican-lite" and a racist. Ward 1 had a Dem primary candidate---Salah Czapary---who was a former cop who said publicly and often what then-Chief Robert Contee has also said often, i.e., the 700 or so violent gun-wielding adult and juvenile criminals in the District are well known to police, and they should be locked up appropriately (so for juveniles that means juvie, not adult jail). Brianne Nadeau's progressive henchpeople discovered that Czapary had a campaign staffer whose father---not him---had worked for Trump, and they papered Ward 1 with signs alleging that the gay son of immigrants was a secret Trumper. We would be much better off vis a vis the Council and crime if Czapary and Goulet would have won their respective primaries. They would be backing the Mayor on doing more to fight crime, not voting for Charles Allen's crazy crap policies, and also pressuring Schwalb and the Feds to actually prosecute criminals. The police would not be as demoralized as they now are---which is the other troubling aspect to all of this, Voting matters and we, the citizens of Wards 1 and 3, royally screwed up our chances to improve things when we had the opportunity.

THANK YOU. Every candidate who saw the writing on the wall re: crime was attacked as a pseudo-Trumper. And now you’re all freaking out about the increase in crime. I really hope people don’t forget this the next time around.

Its almost like linking local and national politics is counter-productive.

Radical proposal, ban both the Republican and Democratic parties from holding office in DC. Let local parties run the city without national baggage/tailwinds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.

"The five states that spent the most per pupil in FY 2020 were New York ($25,520), the District of Columbia ($22,856), which comprises a single urban district, Connecticut ($21,346), Vermont ($20,838), and New Jersey ($20,670)"

source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/per-pupil-spending.html#:~:text=The%20five%20states%20that%20spent,and%20New%20Jersey%20(%2420%2C670).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone. In 2022, Ward 3 had a Dem primary candidate, Eric Goulet, who had a much tougher stance on crime than Frumin. Goulet was pilloried by the progressives as being "Republican-lite" and a racist. Ward 1 had a Dem primary candidate---Salah Czapary---who was a former cop who said publicly and often what then-Chief Robert Contee has also said often, i.e., the 700 or so violent gun-wielding adult and juvenile criminals in the District are well known to police, and they should be locked up appropriately (so for juveniles that means juvie, not adult jail). Brianne Nadeau's progressive henchpeople discovered that Czapary had a campaign staffer whose father---not him---had worked for Trump, and they papered Ward 1 with signs alleging that the gay son of immigrants was a secret Trumper. We would be much better off vis a vis the Council and crime if Czapary and Goulet would have won their respective primaries. They would be backing the Mayor on doing more to fight crime, not voting for Charles Allen's crazy crap policies, and also pressuring Schwalb and the Feds to actually prosecute criminals. The police would not be as demoralized as they now are---which is the other troubling aspect to all of this, Voting matters and we, the citizens of Wards 1 and 3, royally screwed up our chances to improve things when we had the opportunity.

THANK YOU. Every candidate who saw the writing on the wall re: crime was attacked as a pseudo-Trumper. And now you’re all freaking out about the increase in crime. I really hope people don’t forget this the next time around.

Its almost like linking local and national politics is counter-productive.

Radical proposal, ban both the Republican and Democratic parties from holding office in DC. Let local parties run the city without national baggage/tailwinds.

I can't imagine what kind of crazy would come out of local DC parties.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.

"The five states that spent the most per pupil in FY 2020 were New York ($25,520), the District of Columbia ($22,856), which comprises a single urban district, Connecticut ($21,346), Vermont ($20,838), and New Jersey ($20,670)"

source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/per-pupil-spending.html#:~:text=The%20five%20states%20that%20spent,and%20New%20Jersey%20(%2420%2C670).

Just goes to show that money does not buy you a great education.

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Exxon at Connecticut & Nebraska robbed by 2 older teens tonight, at gunpoint, before 9pm. Clerk was pistol whipped and customer was also robbed.

Crickets from CM Frumin, again.

The Mayor. It's the Mayor that runs the police force and every public safety agency in the District. If you are upset about somebody not doing enough, you should be upset about the city's Chief Executive.

The mayor is very concerned about crime and wants to take a much harder stance on detaining, arresting and prosecuting. its the council that controls the crime bill (public embarrasement), council makes the final budget decisions-like funding more police officers etc... this is all on the ocuncil

And the defunding decisions, led by Allen in 2020, will take time to dig out from.

Indeed.

[Anonymous]

how about we start admitting a certain segment of the population is just riddled with criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how about we start admitting a certain segment of the population is just riddled with criminals.

Y'all get more emboldened on this site everyday

[Anonymous]

We have about the same number of murders this year as Baltimore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Another problem is no one wants to fund both the long term and short term solutions. Of course we need prosecution in the short term. And in the long term we need affordable housing and better schools and job training and job growth.


DC has some of the most generous social services in the country. They haven’t worked this far so something needs to change.

They have not worked for decades because while there are lots of carrots, there are very few sticks. If people lost their public subsidies if their 13 yo engaged in multiple violent crimes (like a 3 strikes law), there would be an uptick in parental oversight. In addition, no politician is willing to criticize the personal choices and lack of responsible parenting that is a significant causation factor. Everything is "society's" fault. I can believe in systemic societal causes AND expect personal responsibility. The two are not mutually exclusive.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:how about we start admitting a certain segment of the population is just riddled with criminals.

"Liberals"?