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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Murder is at a 20 year high. There have been 155 murders so far this year with a 33% clearance rate by MPD. And yet the main concern of a very comfortable group of folks is traffic enforcement?

Let’s get some murder enforcement first.[/quote]

Traffic enforcement may go hand in hand with crime reduction to help slow down criminals and get some off the street anyways. Boot those cars with $6k in tickets and get reciprocity with MD and VA so that those states can boot cars there for infractions in DC.

These aren't completely separate issues. If you live in a high crime area, then you also know that criminals drive 100mph after a shooting to get away without a speedbump or bumpout in sight to slow them down. Traffic safety measures in my own neighborhood such as speed bumps and cameras have actually helped slow down criminals as we used to be a "getaway" road that folks would peal down our roads after a crime. We have experienced many of those on our own street, some police chases with cars that resulted in crashes in my neighborhood leading to damaged cars when the criminals inevitably crashed. We had a couple awful ones where they crashed into people's cars on our street, totaling some (but hey! no one died, right!). If you don't live in a high crime area, you don't understand this, but in farther areas of the city where crime is more common, you cannot completely separate homicides/crime with road safety measures.
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