Most_kinds_of_Dirt t1_j2cerlq wrote
Reply to comment by violet-shift in ABC News: "Washington, DC, records back-to-back years with 200 murders for 1st time in nearly 20 years" by Swampoodle1984
>Despite politicized claims that this rise was the result of criminal justice reform in liberal-leaning jurisdictions, murders rose roughly equally in cities run by Republicans and cities run by Democrats. So-called “red” states actually saw some of the highest murder rates of all. This data makes it difficult to pin recent trends on local policy shifts and reveals the basic inaccuracy of attempts to politicize a problem as complex as crime.
It's also important to note that this increase was for homicides, not overall crime. Overall crime has continued to decrease both nationally and in DC.
DC crime stats:
| Category | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | 2022 YTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 108 | 135 | 226 | 201 |
| Sex Abuse | 174 | 346 | 176 | 158 |
| Assault w/ a dangerous weapon | 2,520 | 2,278 | 1,675 | 1,383 |
| Robbery | 4,207 | 3,000 | 2,040 | 2,064 |
| Violent Crime (total) | 7,009 | 5,759 | 4,117 | 3,806 |
| Burglary | 3,948 | 2,122 | 1,172 | 1,042 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3,820 | 2,700 | 3,515 | 3,730 |
| Theft from Auto | 7,839 | 12,175 | 8,690 | 7,779 |
| Theft (Other) | 10,206 | 14,574 | 10,915 | 10,777 |
| Arson | 39 | 6 | 4 | 4 |
| Property Crime (total) | 25,852 | 31,577 | 24,296 | 23,332 |
| All Crime (total) | 32,861 | 37,336 | 28,413 | 27,138 |
Effective_Golf_3311 t1_j2e76to wrote
I love this use of the murder rate. My ~100k pop city jumped nearly 400% during 2020 and 2021 due to some drug beefs gone bad but now it’s gone from 4 murders to one in 2022.
But that stat allows us to pretend that jurisdictions like mine were the problem. Meanwhile we can fill mass graves with the hundreds upon hundreds of bodies of young black men murdered in our major cities — red or blue — and we lack a desire to do anything about it so we’re just gonna blame the orange man.
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