DC has about the same number of murders this year as BALTIMORE

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 161 killings so far this year, which is up 28 percent from last year. Baltimore has 164 murders this year, which is down substantially from last year.

You know things are bad when you're not just compared to Baltimore, but when your crime stats make Baltimore look not so bad.

PG County had 18 murders this year.

WOW. Is that for real? PG county is way bigger than DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Did they ever catch the guys who murdered the Afghan translator refugee who was driving for Lyft?

I think they have video of the perpetrators laughing after the murder walking down the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Truly amazing how people elect stupid into office and get stupid in return. Then they ask why murders, robberies, and car jackings are out of control.

You people voted like idiots and gave carte blanche to the party in control. Reap what you've sown.

Exactly. I wish I could feel sorry for them. Grew up in DC, and I no longer step foot into the hellhole. Democrats are hopeless, and hopelessly ignorant for doing what they’ve done... to themselves.

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I agree, and im a democrat.

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Anonymous wrote:Crimes in D.C. are increasingly committed by teenagers, and the city refuses to discipline them. The mayor tried, and people like Janeese Lewis George refused saying it would be "incredibly traumatizing" if teenagers accused of murder were detained by the police.

Stop electing these crazy people.

+1000. The root of DCs current crime problem lies with young people. Karl Racine’s OAG prosecutors stopped holding young violent offenders truly accountable, leading to the teens running the streets feeling they were invincible. Brian Schwalb has not shown any willingness to reverse that trend so here we are. An entire generation of young people that don’t believe the law applies to them because they know they will not be held truly accountable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crimes in D.C. are increasingly committed by teenagers, and the city refuses to discipline them. The mayor tried, and people like Janeese Lewis George refused saying it would be "incredibly traumatizing" if teenagers accused of murder were detained by the police.

Stop electing these crazy people.

Alternatives need to RUN, Allen was unopposed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 161 killings so far this year, which is up 28 percent from last year. Baltimore has 164 murders this year, which is down substantially from last year.

You know things are bad when you're not just compared to Baltimore, but when your crime stats make Baltimore look not so bad.

PG County had 18 murders this year.

WOW. Is that for real? PG county is way bigger than DC.

Yup, 18 murders for Current Year (CY) 2023.

https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/4497/Annual-Offenses-by-Division-DCR

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 161 killings so far this year, which is up 28 percent from last year. Baltimore has 164 murders this year, which is down substantially from last year.

You know things are bad when you're not just compared to Baltimore, but when your crime stats make Baltimore look not so bad.

PG County had 18 murders this year.

WOW. Is that for real? PG county is way bigger than DC.

Yup, 18 murders for Current Year (CY) 2023.

https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/4497/Annual-Offenses-by-Division-DCR

A lot of DC’s shootings involve people from PG. So they are coming here to get wild, then they go back home. That trend has existed for a long time, but it has turbocharged again with the rise in crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have 161 killings so far this year, which is up 28 percent from last year. Baltimore has 164 murders this year, which is down substantially from last year.

You know things are bad when you're not just compared to Baltimore, but when your crime stats make Baltimore look not so bad.

PG County had 18 murders this year.

WOW. Is that for real? PG county is way bigger than DC.

Yup, 18 murders for Current Year (CY) 2023.

https://www.princegeorgescountymd.gov/4497/Annual-Offenses-by-Division-DCR

A lot of DC’s shootings involve people from PG. So they are coming here to get wild, then they go back home. That trend has existed for a long time, but it has turbocharged again with the rise in crime.

Oh please. Tons of crime in MoCo and PG is also committed by DC residents who flee back over the border because the know police will often give up if they go over the border. It suppresses crime stats in DC when their people steal everyone's car in MoCo.

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I agree that the refusal to bring tough penalties against juvenile violent offenders is a huge problem. The number of kids in DC with long rap sheets but who have never experienced more than a slap on the wrist is alarming.

I think the increasing homeless population is also a major issue. Mental illness is very common in this population and especially when you have long term encampments, violence and other crime is inevitable.

There is a link between these two issues. In both cases, activists in DC oppose the more obvious solutions (stiffer penalties agains juvenile crime, breaking up homeless encampments) as cruel and have a laundry list of reasons why, some of which have some truth (recidivism rates among incarcerated teens are high, shelters often don’t meet needs of residents and can be violent places) and others that are more specious.

But the one question most activists can’t answer? What do we do instead?

So we do nothing. And this is the result. “Nothing” should not be an option.

[Anonymous]

I think the partisan rhetoric is obscuring the actual issue here.

There are Republican-controlled cities that are doing well with crime, and those that are doing poorly. There are Democratic-controlled cities that are doing well with crime and those that are doing poorly.

In each case, the roots of the poor performance may be political (unfettered access to weapons on one hand, absolute lack of consequences for offenders on the other) but what matters is the results.

In this case, we are talking about the District of Columbia, which is doing *very very poorly.*

For those of us that live and work in DC, it doesn't really matter whether the Mayor and City Council's objection to enforcing the law is ideological. It matters that it is impacting the safety of the citizens.

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This isn't getting anywhere near the attention it deserves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

This isn't getting anywhere near the attention it deserves.

Yup. Prosecutorial discretion at USAO was driving the increase in crime. WTF is happening in that office? This has been a long term trend and now the chickens have really come home to roost in the past 18 months.

Also I want to point out this quote from the WaPo article:

Pinto recently sponsored emergency legislation, overwhelmingly passed by the council, that makes it easier for judges to detain people charged with violent offenses before trial and broadens the types of crimes for which juveniles would face a presumption of pretrial detention.

On Thursday, Smith, D.C.’s police chief, credited that new law with authorities detaining 21 of 43 juveniles arrested across the city in a recent week on charges of carjacking and robberies. Had it not been for the new law, Smith told residents, “those young people would have been on the street.”

Sounds like the new law is already taking a bite out of youth crime with immediate impacts.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, and im a democrat.

Shhh… the idiots on this forum will insist that we are not democrats or that we are “trumpers” for not kowtowing to their hilariously dumb policies. I have just accepted that my lifelong Democrat voting ass is a “trumper” in DCUM land despite having never voted for trump because I have been called that too many times to count.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree, and im a democrat.

Shhh… the idiots on this forum will insist that we are not democrats or that we are “trumpers” for not kowtowing to their hilariously dumb policies. I have just accepted that my lifelong Democrat voting ass is a “trumper” in DCUM land despite having never voted for trump because I have been called that too many times to count.

You MAGA!