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I have seen no reporting on this incident in the WaPo.  Did I miss it?   I found out from our list serv and concerned neighbors talking to each other.  Like the attack on someone at the Starbucks outside on Ct and Livingston, with a fire extinguisher, without private communication, we’d never hear about any crimes in our neighborhood here.  Why?

[quote=Anonymous]We have to put our faith in the U.S. Attorney's office.  Crime is rampant because there are so few consequences right now.  Once we start prosecuting more crimes, the tide will start to turn.  It will also help police morale.  For years, they have been putting cases together only to see them go nowhere.[/quote]

The USAO with the no paper rate of 67%? The one that had to be called up to the Hill, scolded and directed to report out numbers so their abysmal performance can be tracked? Faith? Put the screws to Matt Graves and force him to rein in his ideological prosecutors as he did in pilot project in Chinatown would be more productive.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/05/chinatown-crime-dc-police/

While prosecution rates soared in Chinatown when prosecutorial discretion was removed by Graves, overall the prosecution rate dropped 4% that month, was that meant as a signal from career prosecutors? Note, in Chinatown pilot, same no certified lab, same MPD, all factors cited for non-prosecution were the same but no prosecutorial discretion. There was also this response to trying to bring more gun cases in most impacted areas, pulling them into fed court. Staff prosecutors refused. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

Most recent numbers were slightly better, hope the trend continues but the public pressure and Congressional oversight cannot let up.

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