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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

For reference, the population of Montgomery County

1990 761,766
2000 873,341
2020 1,062,061[/quote]
30 is not good and clearly the wrong direction, but compare with DC (211 to date) or PG County (98 to date).

The council should heed the warning though and stop promoting policies that encourage crime in this county. [/quote]

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