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Homicide rate continued to drop a little bit in DC for 2010, despite the recession! In 2010 there were 132 slayings compared to 144 in 2009. How low can it go if gentrification continues?
Birdsing - I am just looking at the year end finals!!! It is way too early to draw any conclusions about 2011. Secondly, I never said that DC had a low homicide rate. It still is relatively high...it is just that it is getting better!
Birdsing - I am just looking at the year end finals!!! It is way too early to draw any conclusions about 2011. Secondly, I never said that DC had a low homicide rate. It still is relatively high...it is just that it is getting better!
It's up from last year and we haven't even gotten to summer time. I think after we get past summer time we will really know where DC stands.
This isn't really news. The homicide rate has been declining in DC--as it has nationally--since the mid-90s. DC remains among the top cities in the country for violent crime, though. I'll be much happier when the city no longer makes those "most dangerous" lists...
The crime statistics for DC are meaningless for comparison purposes. The trend is very heartening.
I'm not sure I'd call them "meaningless". It certainly doesn't mean the city is uniformly dangerous, or that crime is pervasive in all corners of the city. But the same could be said for most cities with higher-than-average violent crime rates. The question then becomes why DC persists in having a violent crime and homicide rate well above that of most other cities?
I agree that the plummeting crime rate is heartening. I would simply caution against focusing solely on the fact that the crime rate is falling at the expense of asking why it still remains so high.
I don't know. Is the crime really going down or just being relocated to PG county?
Are you kidding me PG county is as hot as a fire cracker right now.
Murders are are up substantially.
Robberies, carjackings, burglaries, shootings plague that county everyday.
Its like a criminal haven and crimes are easier to commit in PG county as well.
They have a police force that is smaller than DC's, but covers close to 500 sq. miles and 850K+ people with a lot of highways, big roads, and woods.
Areas like Langley Park, Riverdale, Glassmanor, Hillcrest Heights, Suitland, Seat Pleasant, Capitol Heights, Landover, parts of Hyattsville, and a few others are only getting worse. Police say they are adding more officers to some of these areas but thats not gonna do anything. The crime will just either move somewhere else like its been doing or the gangbangers and thugs do whatever they want even with more police presence.
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