Anonymous wrote:Violent crime in DC is now lowest in 30 years.
Will be happy to be very wrong but I suspect that his highly divisive politics and dumb economic policies will lead to a new surge in crime …


“A year-end analysis of violent crime in the District shows the rate of violent incidents is at a 30-year low. According to a presentation from the U.S. Attorney's Office, violent crime overall has dropped 35% over last year, from 5,215 incidents in 2023 to 3,388 so far in 2024. Homicide is down 30%”
https://wtop.com/crime/2024/12/violent-crime-in-dc-is-lowest-level-in-30-years/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

I have a question. If you are behind a car with questionable tags - clearly expired, probably printed at home, for a different model of car - are you allowed to pull them over? I believe many posters think MPD doesn’t want to do their job, but I suspect policy or guidance discourages it. It seems to me many other crimes are facilitated by fraudulent tags.

It requires special training to identify expired or invalid tags. Do you have it?

https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/dc-could-soon-start-towing-cars-with-fake-expired-tags/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

How do we get rid of Bowser? She sux.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

How do we get rid of Bowser? She sux.

Anonymous wrote:Y'all so badly want DC to be the murder capital so you can justify your racism against black people

Sometimes I'm so ashamed to be white

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.

Nono don’t think everyone knows that. Please cite your source.

Everyone I know considers rape, car jacking and armed robberies to represent violent crime: the only thing u replicable about rape stats is that they are heavily under reported .

It is great that you think carjacking is serious. Show me where in the reported violent crime stats this “lowest in 30 years” story is based on do they report carjacking?
https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime

Carjacking is armed robbery. It’s very serious. This is the dumbest comment I’ve seen on the internet ever. You deserve to live like this, carjacking apologist.

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^^^

Homicide rates are not the only stats used for determining violent crime rates.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are used to calculate violent crime rates in the District of Columbia:
Violent crime: Includes murder, rape and sexual assault, robbery, and assault
Crime rate: Calculated as the number of crimes per 100,000 people

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) uses the DC Code Offense definitions to calculate violent crime rates in Washington, D.C. The MPD's crime data is available through a variety of sources, including:

DC Crime Cards
An online mapping application that provides up-to-date information on violent crime, including homicides, arrests, and firearm recoveries; and

Open Data DC catalog
Provides other crime data, including robbery and carjacking trends, marijuana arrests, and more

Crime rates are calculated by dividing the number of crimes by the population and multiplying by 100,000. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) are the most common data source for crime statistics, listing the number of crimes reported to the police and the number of arrests made.

Other data sources for measuring crime include: victimization survey data and self-reported data

Everyone knows that homicide is the only police stat that is trustworthy. David Simon even did a whole season of The Wire about it.

DC already jukes the stats on “violent crime” in quite obvious ways, for example, only reporting stats for ADW but not for simple and aggravated assault, which is data they are presumably providing to the FBI.

Nono don’t think everyone knows that. Please cite your source.

Everyone I know considers rape, car jacking and armed robberies to represent violent crime: the only thing u replicable about rape stats is that they are heavily under reported .

It is great that you think carjacking is serious. Show me where in the reported violent crime stats this “lowest in 30 years” story is based on do they report carjacking?
https://mpdc.dc.gov/dailycrime

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not even Fox News itself is questioning the data or the crime drop. It’s real.

Fox News doesn’t have my sources. It’s all bogus.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC Police officer here.

The bosses are manipulating the stats.

Any questions?

I have a question. If you are behind a car with questionable tags - clearly expired, probably printed at home, for a different model of car - are you allowed to pull them over? I believe many posters think MPD doesn’t want to do their job, but I suspect policy or guidance discourages it. It seems to me many other crimes are facilitated by fraudulent tags.

I could. But Id rather not risk my pension for it.

The policy of beheading us for split second desisons leads to us not taking risks, like proactive traffic stops.