Posted on 07/21/2006 5:09:15 PM PDT by blam
US capital introduces curfew after crime wave
Fri Jul 21, 4:47 PM ET
AFP/File Photo: Washington Mayor Anthony Williams, seen here in February 2006, announced that the US capital will...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US capital will introduce a 10:00 pm curfew for teenagers and deploy more police officers following a crime wave that saw 15 murders at the start of the month, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams said.
Washington DC's crime wave included the murder of a young British national, who was slashed to death in the throat on July 9 in the upscale tourist district of Georgetown.
The US capital plans to deploy an additional 300 police offers, install monitoring cameras and introduce an evening curfew on teenagers under 17, the city said.
It will also launch a "violent crime task force" staffed by local police officers, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
"The city is much safer than 10 years ago but we can do better," Williams said, adding that the crime rate in the capital was lower last year than at any point since the late 1960s.
Take a clue from low crime cities. Get rid of the firearms ban.
One is forced to wonder on whose side they would be.
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They could start by not crucifying their own precint captains for giving un-p.c. advice to the public...
But I guess they gotta keep their priorities straight.
But these are just cultural differences...
sounds like a quagmire to me.
Need to set a time table to withdrawl from Washington.
We can;t win the war is lost. Overextended.
Were these murders gang related?
it's a civil war
I think the U.S. should withdraw from D.C. We can "redeploy" to Virginia. :-)
JEDI
That's not the issue for the majority of crimes in DC.
http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1244,q,543077,mpdcNav_GID,1533,mpdcNav,|31538|.asp
I took that right off the District of Columbias Metro Police page.
Those are the 10 most wanted there for homicide.
I'll be darn. Eight of eleven have Spanish/Hispanic names. I never would have guessed that.
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I took that right off the District of Columbias Metro Police page.
Those are the 10 most wanted there for homicide. ]]
Hey, thats discrimination. Where are the white people?
I wonder how many are MS13.
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