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https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

The year is only a little half over, yet crime stats are blowing 2022 out of the water. The number of robberies and carjackings is truly absurd.  I guess this is the progress the voters wanted and the outcome of restorative justice. DC, where you can do whatever you want and there are no consequences for anything. Congress needs to step in at this point, because it is clear the DC govt is incapable of fulfilling its basic requirement of govt, which is to ensure public safety and justice.

Queue the clowns - 'BuT It IsN't aS BaD AS 90s!!!!'

Lawdy how bad are these 2023 stats going to be by year's end?[/quote]

Those are comparisons of year-to-date 2022 vs. year-to-date 2023.[/quote]
and?

Violent crime is up by 34% YTD, property crime 28%, and all crime 29%. [/quote]

Burglary is down 7%, theft from auto is unchanged, assault with a dangerous weapon is 6%, and as much as you want to make this specifically about DC, it's not. The whole thing about national trends is that they are national.

Also apparently a national trend, among authoritarians, unfortunately: a desire to take self-representation, self-determination, and self-governance away from people who don't vote Republican.[/quote]

Why is crime so much lower in PG county, which has 50% more people than DC?[/quote]

[b]Because the poverty rate in Prince George's County is much lower. That seems obvious. [/b]

According to US Census data, the number of people in poverty in Prince George's County (11.5% of 967,194, or 111,227 people) is almost exactly the same as the number of people in poverty in DC (16.5% of 671,803, or 110,847 people).[/quote]
I just want to get this straight: you are arguing that a 5% difference in poverty rate is what's leading to 7x more murders, 2.5x more instances of sex abuse, and 6x more robberies? [/quote]

No, I am saying that DC and Prince George's County have exactly the same numbers of very poor people. People often have trouble understanding rates, which are fractions. Math can be hard.[/quote]
Is 11.5% really "much lower" than 16.5%? Why are the crime numbers (raw numbers, not crime rates) so much higher in DC than PG despite them having "exactly the same numbers of very poor people"?[/quote]

It's not like this poverty rate dramatically changed in the past 3 years.[/quote]

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