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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ Pretty bad response from Cheh when the data is clear that car jackings and homicides are up significantly. Not a good look to excuse crime. [/quote]

I remember reading once that to understand where crime really is in a city, look at the homicide rate. That cannot be hidden. But any other crime can be categorized into something less scary or even a non-crime (a robbery is suddenly a "lost item")-- or just never reported.

I don't believe, and I don't think anyone else does, that crime is down in DC. I think people are giving up reporting it or the data is being heavily massaged. For me personally, we have had so many packages stolen in the last 2 years that we just don't report them anymore. What's the point? Package theft is basically de-criminalized in DC. We also had someone steal car parts from us (which rendered the car unusable for a month) and, to this date, we have had no response to inquiries at the station about the case. We had video footage of the crime being committed and offered it, and it was declined.

It's just really concerning to me. There's just a sense general lawlessness that I have never experienced in DC. It's half that it seems like the cops don't want to do their jobs and half that people are starting to view crime as some type of force of nature-- nothing to be done about it, just try to not let it happen to you. And if something does happen to you, it must be your fault or you really should think more about the person who committed the crime.[/quote]

+1.  Didn’t you guys watch The Wire?  It’s way too easy to play games with the stats.  And the general reality is that once a metric of any sort is defined and tracked, it will be gamed by those who are being evaluated under it.   The default hypothesis should be that other crimes are up just as much as homicide and that there are data integrity issues in what is being reported.  [/quote]

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