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DC Homicide Total

Posted By Tom Bridge On November 27, 2007 @ 12:40 pm In All Politics is Local, Crime & Punishment, The District, WTF?! | Comments Disabled

170 murdered in DC. In less than 11 months.

While not a record total for DC, it is more than we had all of last year ^[1]. So far, All-Hands weekends haven’t worked ^[2], and apparently gunshot tracking isn’t all that useful either. What solution is there for DC’s police group? How do you better prevent murder? Is it an outreach problem, or is it a police-presence problem? Socio-economic?

We’re still nowhere near the 2005/2004 totals which are just short of 200, so it’s possible last year was just a statistical aberration. Of course, no one really wants to think about that, do they?

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[1] more than we had all of last year: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/26/AR2007112602080.html

[2] All-Hands weekends haven’t worked: http://dc.metblogs.com/archives/2007/11/so_how_about_th.phtml

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