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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Violent crime, in particular, is out of control.  This article was a couple of days ago, and there has since been another murder in Silver Spring.

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2021/12/montgomery-co-sees-rise-in-violent-crime-confronted-by-fewer-police-officers/ [/quote]
It’s interesting that the article did not give the total number of homicides. I think a couple years ago it was 17 for a county with a million people. A 20% increase would change the total number from 17 to 21. I’m not trying to downplay the increase in crime because it’s a concern, but context can be very important, particularly when the baseline is so low. And there’s a reason why the article provides these numbers as a percentage increase providing the numbers or benchmarking in a per capita basis. So I’m not too worried about homicides. Property crime is a whole other matter. [/quote]

It was 30 homicides through november 30 this year.    the most the county ever had was 34 in 1994.    which was all discussed at the briefing on Monday.  It's on youtube.[/quote]

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