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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s bizarre that people can’t acknowledge that having a worse murder than rate than Baltimore in 2023 wouldn’t affect home sales. Of course it is. Take your heads out of the sand.[/quote]
DC crime was really bad in 2023, but we can acknowledge that without misrepresenting the statistics. The number of murders in DC for 2023 was higher than in Baltimore, but the per capita homicide rate was lower. DC is bad, but still not Baltimore-level bad.[/quote]

Point taken. The numbers in DC are more in total, but less per capita. But not by much. Also, Baltimore’s murder rate has been trending down over the past several years, while DC’s has almost tripled over the past 10 years.

DC Murders - 103 in 2013, 160 in 2018, 274 in 2023

Baltimore Murders - 233 in 2013, 309 in 2018, 262 in 2023

DC has had an outrageous jump in crime over the past 5 and 10 years. And unlike Baltimore DC has an extremely expensive housing market. At a certain point the market is going to reflect the crime rate, just like it did in the early 1990s when you could buy a row home in Columbia Heights for $75,000.[/quote]

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