Trump assembles task force to crack down on D.C. crime

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Anonymous wrote:And Ward 3 crime increased by something like 30 percent in 2023 as well. Happy with anything that overrides Frumin.

Have some of us forgotten about 2024? You know when crime went down?

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For ward 3, overall crime has continued to increase annually — meaning it has increased on top of that huge spike albeit at a slower rate. Certain categories (like carjacking) may have decreased, but ward 3 is one of the wards where overall crime continues to increase every year.

https://crimecards.dc.gov/all:crimes/all:weapons/1:year%20to%20date/in:Ward:3

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Anonymous wrote:It says right in that article that they want to SPEED UP the processing of concealed pistols in the District. Did you read it? Does that make you feel safer? Pay attention, people.

Yes, it would make me feel safer, 13 year old punks commit armed carjackings because the odds are greatly in their favor. Arm law abiding citizens and they think twice about taking a chance.

Should also strengthen stand your ground laws and handle the shooting of criminals the way they do in Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they also focus in the institutional corrupted DC Government lead by Bowser and her clique of cronies.

Bowser seems extremely competent and sane when you compare her to many members of the DC Council.

Maybe she looks competent compared to her council. Anyone, even Trump, looks like a genius compared to the DC council. However, under Bowser's leadership, DC became a capital crime, and corruption in the DC government returned with her big time. She wears kneepads when talking to developers who profit from vouchers. She destroyed several communities, populating them with people with mental health problems and criminal records.

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Anonymous wrote:*the district currently has its lowest violent crime rates in 30 years*
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/violent-crime-dc-hits-30-year-low
It’s not ‘for 3 days in Jan’ like an earlier commenter suggested. It’s all of 2024. The press release was simply released on Jan 3 with respect to 2024 data.
If you think Trump’s order is actually about reducing the *already dramatically lower crime rates*, like another pp I have a bridge to sell you.

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Crime is down across the district yet continues to increase in ward 3 and has been doing so steadily since the COVID years.

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Can he bring back suspensions and expulsions in DCPS? The kids get away with anything within school buildings then do anything on the streets.

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Anonymous wrote:Their intent is to punish DC because DC is heavily Democrat-voting and because they can. They are bullies pursuing political vendettas.

Who cares if they in fact stop the ATVs and carjackings? After some soul searching I don’t care 🤷‍♂️

But they won’t. They will crack down on immigrants, unlegalize marijuana and eliminate gun control. It’s all posturing for the folks at home who will just eat it up.

I do not care about the bolded. I’m a PP and a long time DC resident and I would welcome a sharp drop off in the number of Venezuelan moped drivers driving the wrong way down Connecticut and on sidewalks. Shrug

I might be sad for a moment about the hundreds of unpapered housecleaners and parking garage attendants living among us who crossed the border illegally, but they made a deal with the devil when they did it.

And although I voted to legalize marijuana way back when, I regret that. The city has become a disgusting public weed fest and so if that goes away, I can live with that — even as a casual partaker.

We clearly cannot have nice things. I am not the only tax paying long-term resident over the age of 26 who feels the way I do.

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they should include an investigation of bowser, and especially all the housing related corruption

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Anonymous wrote:President Trump is setting up a task force of federal officials directed to crack down on crime and "maximize immigration enforcement" in D.C.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/03/27/trump-dc-task-force-crime-immigration

You mean Gestapo

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Anonymous wrote:they should include an investigation of bowser, and especially all the housing related corruption

Oh shut up Trump and all his sychophants are Russian they should be in jail

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Anonymous wrote:I hope they also focus in the institutional corrupted DC Government lead by Bowser and her clique of cronies.

Bowser seems extremely competent and sane when you compare her to many members of the DC Council.

Maybe she looks competent compared to her council. Anyone, even Trump, looks like a genius compared to the DC council. However, under Bowser's leadership, DC became a capital crime, and corruption in the DC government returned with her big time. She wears kneepads when talking to developers who profit from vouchers. She destroyed several communities, populating them with people with mental health problems and criminal records.

Trump is handing us to Putin he’s a dictator he’s Hitler you fool

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Anonymous wrote:Focusing on fare evaders and immigrants rather than carjackers tells me they just want to stuff jails, not actually improve QOL.

This. If they actually wanted to make District residents safer, they'd be focusing on drug use (including fix the marijuana loophole and the attendant crime and lifestyle issues it creates), juvenile crime (and the related problems of truancy and parental abandonment), repeat offenders, community policing initiatives, and crimes against businesses that are pushing people to close or making it hard to be profitable.

They just want to deport people and harass young black people engaged in non-violent offenses. This will help exactly no one.

Yes, please address the marijuana issues. I, initially, supported this, but now I regret it.

You voted for it. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:It says right in that article that they want to SPEED UP the processing of concealed pistols in the District. Did you read it? Does that make you feel safer? Pay attention, people.

Doesn't faze me. When is the last time a permit holder committed a crime with a firearm? Crimes are committed by - surprise!, criminals, who don't bother with formalities like permits, and likely wouldn't receive them anyway due to prior criminal conduct.

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This is amusing to read. People look at the world through their deeply ingrained beliefs lenses and unable to see anything beyond. It's like people are watching different movies on one screen.

1) Trump will help crack down on crime and clean up the city, things cannot be possibly worse and leaving things the way they are is a no go, any change is hopeful.
2) Trump is only doing this with malicious purpose: to crack down on protestors,target vulnerable POCs and hard working migrants, and terrorize DC general population.

Each group is convinced the other group is high on all the legal DC weed.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear ones…crime has been decreasing significantly over the last 18 months. Literally violent crime is at a 30 year low according to the DOJ as of Jan 3 this year. What’s this ‘DC leaders couldn’t do it themselves’ nonsense?
Please enjoy a newspaper sometime.

You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Here are the facts:

* 2023 saw the highest number of homicides in DC since 1997.
* The DC Police is understaffed by at least 500 officers.
* The DC crime lab remains unaccredited.
* There were over 950 carjackings in 2023 - that's the equivalent of 2.6 carjackings per day! In 2024 there were still 496 carjackings and 70% of those were at gunpoint.

We still have a long way to go.

Wasn't there a year between 2023 and the current year? Hm.

Yes, that would be the year we saw 496 carjackings, more than one per day.

By your own post, that’s half as many as 2023. That’s a great trend, and in line with the steep decline in crime. Still room to improve but good news.