Posted on 07/14/2006 6:19:53 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
The surge in killings started just after midnight July 1 and has barely let up.
A former church usher was gunned down in a courtyard where flowers bloomed. A 24-year-old woman who lost a close friend to gun violence two years ago was herself shot by a neighbor. Two boyhood friends, who were shot at the same time, died days apart. Their cases received little attention compared with the slayings of a convenience store owner, a community activist and an aspiring British politician. But they created the same kind of anguish for the people they knew.
Many of the month's victims, including John Jackson, 26, were shot numerous times.
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Of course, the answer is stricter gun control laws! That will take a bite outta crime!
I was hoping for a law that makes it a felony to ball your hand into a fist.
now THAT will finally prevent the criminals from taking advantage.
I love what Eleanor Holmes Norton said. Paraphrasing of course - The thugs need to know the National MAll is off limits. As if it OK/accepted to commit murders,rape, shoot, stab people in DC as long as it's NOT on the Mall. She can't say they have zero tolerance towards crime, otherwise she would ostracize her voting base.
To all D.C cops you have my sympathy fighting this system.
Frankly, I'm surprised the WaPo would even cover this in any detail. Isn't that racist?
I went on the Weekly Standard cruise and got a staffer all hot and bothered because I criticized DC's crime problem. Maybe she gets the point now. To me it's a national disgrace.
While I don't like Ramsey, and there could be better, the staffing changes he's made over the years have been pretty good. Don't forget, we used to have a guy named Fulwood, and he was actively bad. The street maintenance bothers me, but it's not nearly as bad as New Jersey.
The city is booming, in spite of it's troubles. Now we'll see what happens in the next election. The new mayor will either be financially competent, sharp, and utterly lacking in leadership skills, or the precise opposite, and young besides. It's going to be a long four years.
The schools are the way they are because of many things, but mostly because there really is no political will to fix them. The very well to do have private schools, and 1/4 (I think) of the total school attendance is charter schools. Parents getting their kids into charter schools are the kind that can make a difference, and they aren't spending time on the public schools.
"Gentrification" is proceeding so fast it will make your head swim. And just like development moving into mountain lion territory, it takes time for the mountain lions to learn that the world has changed. The ones that don't get dead. But they do make it less safe for a while.
Thank the Lord for Prince Georges County!
We need to pull all security forces out of DC and let the politicians fend for themselves. It's a quagmire!
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