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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notice the DC crime stats as reported by the city do not include a ton of different violent crime offenses that are considered as violent crime by other jurisdictions. For example, they do not report ASSAULTS. They only report assaults with dangerous weapons. There are thousands upon thousands of assaults in DC that the figures do not include. Maybe they've gone up, maybe they've gone down. We'll never know because they don't report it. Also, it severely distorts the picture of overall violent crime rates compared to neighboring jurisdictions (like Fairfax County) where they DO include these crimes in their statistics. I was told by my friend in DC whose car was hit and run by a drunk driver that the police would not investigate it even though he had a plate number. They said he could file a report but it would be of no use because they would not follow up with him or pursue it. DC police are starved of resources and the city is a cesspool of crime[/quote]

How do you know there are thousands of assaults that MPD takes reports on but doesn't report stats for?[/quote]

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