DC homicide rate going up - still flabby and sick though

[unit321]

D.C. Police are investigating more cases of violent crime across the District.
In Southeast Washington on Friday night, a man was shot dead. Then in Northeast early Saturday morning, a bullet grazed a woman’s head in another shooting. She is expected to survive.
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According to MPD, there have been 79 homicides in the District so far this year, compared to 66 this time last year. That is a nearly 20% increase.

With latest violence, D.C. homicide rate up nearly 20 percent | News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WJLA News


...The number of homicides in Washington peaked in 1991 at 479,[2] and the city eventually became known as the "murder capital" of the United States.[3]...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.

 

[Canada Goose]

Crime went up in NY as well....

Remind me of what someone said a while back that gentrification would make crime worse as things would be more "cramped" in the gentrified areas for the natives...

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Economy hasn't recovered for black males. Gotta sell drugs to eat. Other people want to sell drugs in the same territory and are willing to shoot you for it.

 

[Kyle Barker]

This is the story in a lot of major cities right now. Homicide rate is going up everywhere.