Homicides and robberies are up 29 and 67 per cent from the same time period last year, with murders approaching levels not seen in two decades - while other big cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Baltimore are seeing declines.
Neighboring Baltimore could end the year with under 300 killings for the first time since the riots over Freddie Gray's death in police custody in 2015.
"locals driving small distances"????
ReplyDeleteWhaaaaaa, the people voting to 'save the planet' are killing the planet (and themselves by voting for democrats).
Well, you knew crime was going to go up after DC was ordered to become "Shall-Issue" on their CCW permits. (eyeroll, but see if this isn't blamed.)
ReplyDeleteNeighboring Baltimore could end the year with under 300 killings for the first time since the riots over Freddie Gray's death in police custody in 2015.
ReplyDeleteThat's due to the herd thinning itself out.
Plus the fact that people have learned and simply don't go out at night if they can help it.
DeleteThey have figured out that the streets aren't safe after about 6 PM so they simply stay home.
Seriously. I know folks along the Mag Mile in Chicago who simply don't leave their million dollar condos after dark for fear of being robbed or worse.
But it is what they voted for, so they are getting it.....Good and Hard too.
Oh, they mean street crime. High crimes and misdemeanors have always been popular inside the Beltway.
ReplyDeleteThe simple way to reduce 'homicide' totals is to redefine the meaning of 'homicide' to mean only White-on-non-White murders. Black-on-black is simply a cultural thang. You would not understand.
ReplyDeleteMy family goes back 7 generations in DC. Stories I heard in my youth go back to the late 19th Century. Actual documents go back to when it was simply the Federal Territory. The crack wars in the late 1970s and early '80s had a higher per capita murder rate but even then there wasn't the randomness of today.
ReplyDeleteI guess this is what the centurions felt as they watch the Roman Empire dissolve. Only we're doing it faster.