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Posted on 02/20/2012 12:09:15 PM PST by ColdOne
Violent crime so far this year in the District has spiked sharply — a 40 percent increase that includes twice as many robberies at gunpoint than at this time last year.
Across the city, all police districts are reporting increases in violent crime, and all but one have had double-digit percentage increases, according to internal Metropolitan Police Department documents. The documents contained preliminary crime data for the city as of Thursday.
The crime rate is increasing this year after a downward trend — the number of reported homicides last year dropped to the lowest level in a half-century.
Homicides were the only category of violent crime to decline in the first six weeks this year. As of Thursday, the city had recorded 10 homicides compared with 11 at a similar point last year.
Overall, though, incidents of violent crime — homicides, sexual assaults, robberies and assaults with deadly weapons — are rising at an alarming pace.
The biggest increase was in the 1st District, which includes Capitol Hill, where violent crime jumped by 69 percent, with 110 incidents reported compared with 65 at this point last year. The highest increase was in the 7th District, east of the Anacostia River, where 181 were reported, up 43 percent from the 127 incidents recorded at this point in 2011.
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Take away people’s hope and jobs(change, as in cash) and what do you expect.
Of course this will be spun to mean we need more gun control.
Well, there is a spike in violent crime on capitol hill...
Title modified for accuracy.
I believe that crime is up even more among the city council.
One of the joys of my occasional rides on the Metro is picking up the Washington Examiner and reading about all the crime in DC and PG County, MD.
muggings of taxpayers up 6,432%......
My 32 year old disabled son (cerebral palsy) works for USGS in DC and commutes daily by mass transit from his apartment in Arlington - his balance is poor, along with his hearing and my greatest fear is a pack of hyenas mugging him for his phone or something.
“Empowerment in the age of 0bama”
Variations of the word ‘surge’ have been very overused the last few years.
But I thought eliminating guns in the hands of private citizens got rid of crime?
Not gonna happen.
When most of their constituents are criminals, their dependents, or their sympathizers, the powers-what-is are going to make it as hard as possible for potential victims to protect themselves.
At some point the masses will awake and will descend on the swamp with any and all manner of weapons.
Enough is enough!
At some point the masses will awake and will descend on the swamp with any and all manner of weapons.
Enough is enough!
My state has the highest rate of gun ownership east of the Mississippi (Go Mountaineers!)
D.C. has the lowest.
Guess which one has more murders per capita?
Give you a hint...there haven’t been 10 murders in my home county in the past 10 years...
HOW CAN THIS BE?
Not enough Democrat voters?
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