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Some facts about DC & Homicides

You'd think something this bad just *had* to be the work of a seriously demented Islamic fundamentalists. Indeed, no one can say that it's not. I don't disagree with posts here suggesting that it well could be.

However, you all may wish to know that DC has its own tradition of serial killers. Seriously pathological young kids. Kids so cruel that the older felons don't want to commit crimes anymore because there's no way they want to serve time with this new young crowd of criminals in this city.

We're talking about people that rape their competing drug dealer's girlfriends. We're talking about kids who are "enforcers" and off people without blinking. And we're talking about a police department that feel-good Chief Ramsey won't discipline and make people actually do their job. If the DC police spent half as much time policing as they do cooking the books on crime statistics, my city would be so much safer.

But in my recollection, there's never been a random serial killer in DC for the last 15 years. There's been serial rapists (many --Ray Smith, Donald Hatch, etc. etc.). But never a killer who repeated so often who didn't have an economic motive. It would be unheard of as far back as my criminal justice memory goes (1987). There was, way back when in the 70s, the Pagan motorcyle gang, which kill a black man based on race: those guys were *planning* to kill more people, but they got stopped and arrested. (There is a Pagan motorcycle gang still about somewhere near Laurel, MD, and they all are still a bunch of racists.)

So, while I don't underestimate crime in DC, or its brutality, I dunno about a DC person. To go all the way out of their hood and kill elsewhere? It's just not like the type of evil criminals we have in DC.

If the "white" victims were ethnically and visibly Spanish, I'd say the choices are terrorist or racist. All speculation, to be sure.

It seems to me this is now a 'you can't catch me' game.

Wednesday night was a trial run--a see-how-it-feels exercise. Thursday morning was the main event. The one shooting Thursday night and this afternoon's were done just to mess with the cops.

I expect another cluster this weekend or early next week in a different locale, perhaps in rural Maryland.

I hope they're caught (and killed) before the next shooting.