DC crime stats - holy Toledo

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Anonymous wrote:What I find the most interesting about the link is that DC had an overall reduction in crime from 2021 to 2022. So what the hell is going on with 2023? Blaming the pandemic doesn't make sense. The policies aren't different than they were in 2021-2022. What gives??

I think it's availability of guns to teens and young adults. DC seems to be flooded right now with ghost guns made from kits.

You can’t buy those kits in DC. Somebody is buying them by the hundreds elsewhere and dropping them off in DC. Also, Bowser and her ilk ran off all the crime fighters and those not afraid to say if something doesn’t work off the force. Now the department is run by a bunch of kids asses with no street experience. Top brass are those with specialize and administrative experience. They know nothing about policing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I find the most interesting about the link is that DC had an overall reduction in crime from 2021 to 2022. So what the hell is going on with 2023? Blaming the pandemic doesn't make sense. The policies aren't different than they were in 2021-2022. What gives??

There is a culture of violence and lawlessness that multiplied once people realized there are zero consequences.

Also DC gun laws ensure that only criminals have guns, so average citizens are sitting ducks and the criminals know it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What I find the most interesting about the link is that DC had an overall reduction in crime from 2021 to 2022. So what the hell is going on with 2023? Blaming the pandemic doesn't make sense. The policies aren't different than they were in 2021-2022. What gives??

There is a culture of violence and lawlessness that multiplied once people realized there are zero consequences.

Also DC gun laws ensure that only criminals have guns, so average citizens are sitting ducks and the criminals know it.

This is what I was thinking, but I'm confused about how it happened in just one year. It almost seems sudden. And the gun laws have been like that for ages, so it's unclear why that would just make a difference now.

[Anonymous]

The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

Absolutely. Fake/expired tags drive so much of the crime in this city. Go on a robbery spree in a car with fake paper tags, ditch the tags, repeat. You’ll never get caught, it’s too hard to trade. I am 100% for this bill. Get all of these cars off the streets.

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PG County is NOT double the size of DC.

PG population 955k
DC population 712k

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Anonymous wrote:Whoa! These numbers are WAY above PG County!

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

For 2023:

Homicides in DC is 130
Homicides in PG is 18

Sex Abuse in DC is 85
Sex Abuse in PG is 34

Robbery in DC is 1,699
Robbery in PG is 280

No wonder people from PG commit crimes elsewhere. They know they will get caught in PG!

b/c pg is black? don't drag us into your troubles, dc.

Be careful! Your home prices and property taxes are going to skyrocket once word gets out about PG's good governance.

Our property taxes are high enough in PG! Stay away!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PG County is NOT double the size of DC.

PG population 955k
DC population 712k

DP. According 2022 Census estimates, the actual numbers are:

DC population = 671,803
PG population = 946,971

PG is 41% larger in population than DC. So, PG is 41% larger than DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

Wait, she didn’t identify funding to cover the expected additional towing and impound costs that her legislation is creating? Seriously?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

Y'all haven't been enforcing tickets or parking since 2019. Bet there are a few thousand unused boots in some warehouse there in DC, start immobilizing cars with fake tags.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

Y'all haven't been enforcing tickets or parking since 2019. Bet there are a few thousand unused boots in some warehouse there in DC, start immobilizing cars with fake tags.

both the booting and rat catching departments have like 3 employees each. it's a scandal given the scope of the problem.

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