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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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?? [/quote]
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.[/quote]
What are you talking about? [b]DC does NOT classify kit made firearms as "ghost guns." [/b]
DC REMOVED prohibition on kit made guns from defintion of ghost guns. Here is the amendment striking kit made guns from the ghost gun defintion DC
[quote]Section 501 (D.C. Official Code § 7-2505.01) is amended by striking the phrase "ghost gun, unfinished frame or receiver, or ammunition" and inserting the phrase "ghost gun, or ammunition" in its place.[/quote]
[quote](b-1[b]) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, a person may lawfully:
(1) Self-manufacture a pistol;[/b] and
(2) Possess and own a pistol that the person self-manufactured pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection and registered pursuant to § 7-2502.02.[/quote]
https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-2505.04

You can make your own gun in DC, including from a kit  it is perfectly legal. It is a crime not to register it. Just the same as it is a crime to not register a factory made gun. In DC a "ghost gun" is one of the following two, and only following two:
1) a gun made virtually entirely out of plastic that can defeat metal detectors
2) a gun where serial number has been filed off
Kit made guns are NOT ghost guns under DC law.

Also if guns are the issue why are stabbings and stabbing murder both up as well? We have a very small number of repeat criminals who are reposinsbile for virtually all DC violent crime. That is the DATA.  When more are on the streets there is more crime. It is not a random sample of people committing crime in DC, it is a very specific group of 1,000 to 500 people. When most of them are in jail, crime goes way down, when most are out, like now, crime goes way up.
In 2012 we had half the murder rate today. Why? Because today we have half as many criminals incarcerated.

[quote]Better than red states anyway
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ariannajohnson/2...e-crimes-measure-up/[/quote]
As a die hard Democrat I can tell you that way of looking at it is is just not sober It is BLUE jurisdictions where upwards of 80% of violent crime occurs. States do not control staffing level of police. Nor do they control prosecution policy. Municipalities  and counties do. There are about 20,000 municipalities in the US and 3,000 counties. Every single one of the top 40 homicide cities in the US is Blue and Blue run. And the same with counties. In fact Red counties and cities in the US average lower homicide rates than the EU has.[/quote]

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