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[quote=Anonymous]Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.

In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders.

This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256.

All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board.

The capital has already far eclipsed the staggering number of carjackings that took place there last year.

Worse yet, only 80 arrests have been made in connection with 2023’s 606 carjackings so far.

Prospects are so bleak that Trayon White Sr., a Democratic city councilman who originally voted to lower the criminal penalties for a number of serious infractions — including carjacking and armed carjacking — is now calling for the National Guard’s intervention in the carnage.

Imagine telling someone in June 2020, amidst the gnashing of teeth that accompanied Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for the National Guard’s use then, that a little over three years later, Democrats would be pining for the same.
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