Is there any reason to think cops in places like Chicago or Baltimore are better than DC cops? Because the prosecution rates for local DA offices are about 2-3x better in literally any other jurisdiction than DC. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Stop defending criminal actors who are disproportionately causing harm to low-income disadvantaged communities.

Do you know how human nature works? If my job is to write policy proposals, and I get paid regardless of how many policy proposals I write, and my boss doesn’t even read most of my memos, guess what I will be writing far fewer policy memos than if my boss actually read them.

Shame that the first indictment wasn’t for election interference in Georgia…but I will enjoy the symbolism of him getting booked for SOMETHING at long last

Why would the police do anything when the USAO refuses to prosecute 70%~ of the time?

It's not the same, obviously, but it's not as far apart at least in terms of factual end point as you're making it out to be.

Two things can be true:

1. f*ck this racist dogwhistler;
2. DC schools are absolutely atrocious with some of the worst test scores in the nation, and maybe among all developed nations, and consistently fail to keep vulnerable children out of the school-to-prison pipeline (a term used by the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/juvenile-justice-school-prison-pipeline).

The rightfully indignant response to 1) should not lead to a "closing of ranks" to acknowledge 2).

Wot

The sports book at Grand Central has also made that stretch of 18th more sketchy. Talk about unintended consequences

Genuine question — do you really believe that the average net tax burden (or even net CoL) for a married family of five is equivalent in DC and Texas? Because this is Trump 2020 election levels of delusion jfc.

Yeah but I don’t think the snotty ones (statistically) are committing the same level of violent crimes…

Ya u rite

While I whole heartedly endorse the message underlying the OP, I will note that if it was made about the actions of teenagers in NE/SE rather than NW, it likely would have been a far more controversial statement (possibly locked/removed by mods) and have much more push back.

The Georgetown Law gym has a really good indoor basketball court. I THINK they allow you to join if you’re not a student (had intramural games there a few times).

I only cover the difference between the service fee and 20% tip FWIW (sometimes this is $0).

Tough last few weeks for Admo

Feel free to use a three-year rolling average for that period. You’ll find the same trend.

Again, if you take a rolling three-year average of murder rates for each year from 2013-2022, they consistently increase over the last decade, mirroring the decline in employed police officers. Are you able to understand what I’m saying?* We are talking numbers here so there’s not really room for interpretation.

*So the rolling murder rate in 2013 would be the average from 2011-2013, for 2014 it would be the average of 2012-2014, etc. This helps flatten the otherwise moderately noisy year-over-year data to generate longer term trend lines.

I’d check those numbers again buddy. And how many of those cities also had declining numbers of police officers?

Okay so is that “no basis”?

There were 103 murders in DC in 2013 and 221 in 2021. That’s over double in 9 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Washington,_D.C.

So I guess we accept you were wrong at this stage?

“Then 2015-2019, the number of murders stayed statistically static” — LOL, do a three year rolling average please. You’ll see exactly what I’m describing, murders go up while the number of cops go down.

Also I’m going to assume the “actually murders went down after the crack epidemic of the 90s subsided” argument is trolling so I won’t bother to address it (for your sake I hope you’re not actually making this argument).

On what basis are you claiming that the top 20 cities in the US by population had their murder rates increase by more than double from 2013-2022?

Great then you can clearly see that murders nearly double from 2013-2022 while the number of MPD officers declined by 20%~ during that same period.

So where’s the controversy here? The numbers speak for themselves.

On what basis do you say the rise was not more radical than any other city (and how do you separate that from other cities also losing officers during this period).

Are you really this dense? I never claimed that. I said that the relative INCREASE in the murder rate in DC from 2013-2022 outpaced other cities (while the number of police officers declined), not that the absolute number was the highest in the country at any point.

What does that list have to do with the increase in murder rate in DC from 2013-2022?