Chilling details, the man shot near the convention center, in critical condition, was waiting in a car to pick his wife up from work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/30/carjacking-dc-man-killed/

Describing the first shooting scene, near Mount Vernon Square, a woman who walked by moments after the attack, still in daylight, said she saw the victim, in a dress shirt and sweater, sprawled on the pavement with one foot still in the passenger’s side of a car. His right hand was twitching as blood pooled around his head.

The witness, Yolanda Douglas, 39, said a woman ran out of a K Street office building, screaming, “Oh, my God, that’s my husband.” Douglas said the woman ran toward her husband and grabbed his hand. “What happened?” she asked, but he did not respond.

DC has done something successful because carjackings dropped in January.

This number suggests that what Baltimore is doing would save lives here too

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some reality checks from the Mayor's breakfast with the Council

Ok this is really interesting.

Why isn’t there a 5-alarm fire to get the DC crime lab credentialed?

It is in process, PP. Google should bring up recent articles re: status. This also goes to the "they didn't fingerprint my car" issue. Some types of evidence have been outsourced, esp re: gun crime, while there has not been a way to process the property crime evidence for some time, so those prosecutions have dropped.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe 2 carjacking victims were shot in DC yesterday. 1 in NoMA died.

https://www.aol.com/news/deadly-carjacking-near-luxury-dc-031437847.html

Reports are both carjacking victims were murdered. One at 5:30 by the convention center and one in NoMa.

Nowhere is safe and the violence is significantly worse and more random than the 90s.

Police say one person was responsible for both, and that person is now dead after cops shot him in New Carrolton (after the suspect fired upon police officers in multiple jurisdictions):

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/shooting-involving-officer-investigation-new-carrollton-police-prince-georges-county/65-a464980d-6771-47e8-acdb-417770e01e2a

What a psychopath? Good police work

Frumin's remarks at the Council/Bowser breakfast are just underwhelming and an embarrassment, and in that milieu that is a low bar.

Anonymous wrote:The murderer’s mistake was leaving the DC city limits.

Yep. Pg cops actually do their jobs because they haven’t been hamstrung.

Anonymous wrote:Some reality checks from the Mayor's breakfast with the Council

Ok this is really interesting.

Why isn’t there a 5-alarm fire to get the DC crime lab credentialed?

Anonymous wrote:If he was shot in DC, those cops would be suspended and looking at prison

Don't worry, the Feds will be looking into any potential civil rights violations. And there's always a civil suit.

Some reality checks from the Mayor's breakfast with the Council

The murderer’s mistake was leaving the DC city limits.

If he was shot in DC, those cops would be suspended and looking at prison

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe 2 carjacking victims were shot in DC yesterday. 1 in NoMA died.

https://www.aol.com/news/deadly-carjacking-near-luxury-dc-031437847.html

Reports are both carjacking victims were murdered. One at 5:30 by the convention center and one in NoMa.

Nowhere is safe and the violence is significantly worse and more random than the 90s.

Police say one person was responsible for both, and that person is now dead after cops shot him in New Carrolton (after the suspect fired upon police officers in multiple jurisdictions):

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/shooting-involving-officer-investigation-new-carrollton-police-prince-georges-county/65-a464980d-6771-47e8-acdb-417770e01e2a

This was a pretty damning statement just this morning

"Our prosecution rates remain among the lowest in the country"

The Council is clear re: their goals and ideology, over and over. They paused this briefly due to media attention but will ram it through in due time, despite the objections of other members of the Sentencing Commission, the lack of any representatives advocation for victims and the lack of any relevant expertise. There is already a decarceral representative from the same NGO, The Sentencing Project, but hey.

https://wtop.com/dc/2024/01/stop-this-revolving-door-us-attorney-pushes-back-on-dc-councils-sentencing-commission-nominee/

DC Justice Lab is a huge driver of the status quo, the ED took credit for writing 4 different bills for the Council. Not lobbied on, wrote. Including the crime bill struck down by Congress/Biden a year ago. Just like it's a small number of people committing most violent crime, same is true of a small number of activists (funded by dark undisclosed $) who seem to control the Council, literally writing their legislation. As cities on the West Coast have stepped back from some of these ideologies and policies, they have doubled down in DC, as we have seen with the recent Sentencing Commission nominee. The icons of NGOs likely represent a small number of people across all of them, but they have a very disproportionate impact on our safety.