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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Violent crime on H Street is up 89 percent in the past year, per the Post's story today. Robberies up more than 100 percent. [/quote]

DP but I was curious so I found the story. It's here if anyone wants to read it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/29/bowser-nightlife-brian-robinson-shot/

I live near H Street and I wish there were more answers in there. Though one thing I thought of while reading the story was the shooting at the Whole Foods on H Street a few years ago. That also happened in the middle of the day and we happened to be at the coffee shop next door when it happened. It was very, very scary (basically an active shooter situation where we saw people fleeing the shooter but didn't know where to go). But it also turned out to be not part of some kind of pattern or shift in the neighborhood. It was a random and terrible incident, but it has not lead to more incidents of daytime violence.

That was pre-pandemic. I think it also turned out the shooter in that situation was mentally unstable (and they caught him quickly -- if I remember correctly, he took a ride share vehicle from near the crime and they were able to track him easily). This shooting, and the other crime/violence on H, feels different. It's random that Robinson was a Commanders player who was targeted, but the carjacking was not random but part of a pattern trending up. The fact that it happened during the day is also not random -- there have been more outbursts of daytime violence.

I think we need to look at fundamentals and attack this from all sides. We need fewer guns in circulation -- lets increase buyback programs as well as police stings of gun sources. We need to address the fact that so many of the criminals are minors -- we need more programming for kids in the city AND we need to examine punishments for minors and young adults and ask ourselves if they are serving as a sufficient deterrent (they aren't). We need not just more police presence but we need more community involvement. We need cops who know people's names, we need the people who live and work along H street to know their names.

Anyway, that article doesn't have any answers and I don't have many more, but it's clear what we are doing isn't working.[/quote]

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