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VIDEOYeah, when you try to prove that crime in Washington, D.C. is low by focusing solely on a gentrified neighborhood in Northwest D.C. as this snarky Lib did, it means she is such an expert on generating FAKE NEWS that she should get a job as a reporter at the NBC News4 station in Washington, D.C.. Watch what happened just days after NBC News4 reported the FAKE NEWS about supposedly plunging crime stats in DC. Karma is a bitch but it also can be HILARIOUS as when News4 reporter Ted Oberg got the smug smacked off his face by an...

The nation's capital ended the year with a massive spike in homicides. No, D.C., nor any other major city, is seeing crime levels return to that of the 1990s. Nevertheless, it's a somber statistic for a city whose police force is at its lowest levels in ten years. In all, the city witnessed 162 homicides within its limits, a 54 percent increase (via FoxDC): On the final day of the year, we asked a community leader, a police officer and the mayor about what is causing all of this violence. Paul Trantham, an ANC commissioner in Ward 8, represents one of the...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two congressional aides abducted from their Capitol Hill apartment foiled a robbery attempt early Wednesday by offering to retrieve money from a House office, where police made an arrest and took custody of a second gunman waiting outside in a car.</p>