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DC's murder rate is at 1960's level lows. The city has never been better considering violence is where it was when the Supremes and Temptations topped the charts. The homicide rate is falling every year and will continue to fall.
DC's murder rate is at 1960's level lows. The city has never been better considering violence is where it was when the Supremes and Temptations topped the charts. The homicide rate is falling every year and will continue to fall.
Let's not forget that DC's murder rate remains exceptionally high when compared to other large cities across the country. It's great to recognize the fact that our violent crime rate has plunged over the last 20 years, but it's also important to maintain perspective. It doesn't really serve anyone to pretend that 140 murders per year is somehow acceptable because the District used to eclipse 400.
Well Barry Farms relocation starts this year as well as some other area's. Every year the rate will fall as neighborhoods are revitalized.
Crime hasn't really fallen in Columbia Heights.....or U street.
and where do you think that crime being relocated to?
and isn't that new development by Suitland parkway supposed to house the folks the are being displaced?
I remember talking to someone at DCHA downtown about it and most of the people that are being displaced are going to remain in the district...
and lets say Barry Farms have beefs with certain hoods (which they do... a lot of..) whats gonna stop them from driving or catch a bus or train back to that hood in DC and light it up?
I think people are forgetting metro goes to Prince George's County.
Crime hasn't really fallen in Columbia Heights.....or U street.
That's not really true. Since 2005, violent crime in Columbia Heights has decreased approximately 25%. Property crime is up in Columbia Heights by nearly 50% from 2005--which is largely explainable by the fact that there are many, many more people in Columbia Heights than there used to be.
Around U Street, violent crime is down approximately 33% from 2005 levels, while property crime has actually decreased as well--which is particularly interesting, since there are more people out on U Street these days than there were six years ago.
So crime--particularly violent crime--has indeed fallen in both Columbia Heights and U Street. But we've witnessed for awhile now the decrease in crime across the District, so that's not really a poitn of contention anymore. What we have graduated to is the question of how much crime is acceptable? From the comments I've seen here and elsewhere, there seems to be a disturbing view expressed by some that the District has largely "cleaned up its act" and that crime isn't that much of a concern anymore. That view belies the fact that the District, while no longer the nation's murder capital, maintains one of the nation's higher crime rates. Complacency can lead to a reversal in the progress that the District has made. Which leads me to:
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I think people are forgetting metro goes to Prince George's County.
indeed they do. The area of PG County inside the Beltway is absorbing a lot of the crime problems that used to plague large amounts of the District. The killings and assaults may be taking place across the District's eastern and southern borders, but it doesn't mean that the underlying cauises and factors leading to those crimes are any different. We've simply managed to push the problem into another jurisdiction.
I wonder how many ppl live in NE and SE DC and how many ppl live inside the beltway of pg county...thats the hotzone right there and is probably the same murder rate as Baltimore considering all the lows in the city itself...Also last year DC had the 3rd highest murder rate for cities over 500,000 I believe ...so in perspective there's a long way to go
Columbia Heights and U street are robbery havens...
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...so in perspective there's a long way to go
