"Crime Emergency" in DC...

[bogie]

Interesting thing is that the overall crime rate isn't up... It's just more visible, since this time, we've had a rash of white folks targeted, instead of black-on-black crime, which seems to largely get ignored by the nice folks in Georgetown...

 

[Kawasabi]

I love Florida!!!!

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida's crime rate dropped for the 14th straight year in 2005 to its lowest mark since 1971 because of tougher laws, increased financial support from the Legislature and law-abiding citizens with guns, Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday.

 

[Erebus]

What he said - What he meant

be our eyes and ears

We need bait

be vigilant

You're on your own/CYOA

reallocate our resources

Shuffle people around and hope for the best

 

[SSN Vet]

when this happens overseas we call it.......

a FAILED STATE !!

 

[pcf]

People getting attacked at/around the national mall is nothing new. 13 murders so far this month, is unfortunately the average pace for DC.

Since David Rosenbaum was murdered earlier this year a lot of people in the press have figured out that the protective silk wrapping provided by being one of the elite, was more like the Emporer's New Clothes.

 

[Oldtimer]

Yeah, the D.C. Park Police are truly professional! Just ask Vincent Foster!

HMM! Has anyone ever heard about how LESS gun control actually tends to LOWER the violent crime rate? Sort of like lowering the taxes to stimulate the economy!

There happens to be a LOT of unarmed, prospective VICTIMS in DC! Maybe the ARMED bad guys, who don't abide by the laws, know that they're in a "target rich environment"!

 

[MikeK]

Maybe this has something to do with it?

From Courtland Malloy's 7/12 column in the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071101391.html


According to D.C. police, 420 juveniles taken into custody on armed-robbery charges in the city this year had been arrested before. Including the robbery case, 144 of them have been arrested twice; 102, three times; 74, four times; 44, five times; 29, six times; 10, seven times; five, eight times; five, nine times; three, 10 times; one, 11 times; one, 12 times; and two, 14 times.

"You do a robbery and get caught for the fifth time, and they send you to Oak Hill," Ramsey said, referring to the city's juvenile detention facility in Laurel, "and you stay for three months.

(Emphasis added)

"Then you get released to a group home, and nobody tells us that you've been released because juvenile court proceedings are secret. We know nothing about your release until you get arrested for the sixth time. To most of them, it's just a joke."

 

[Ira Aten]

None of this report could possibly be true, because guns are not legal in D.C. and Clinton put 100,000 new cops on the streets.

I wish these darn reporters would quit making everyone think armed robbers are operating in D.C. because it makes the gun ban appear to be ineffective.

Darned reporters.

 

[saltydog]

Give a good guy a gun,
he'll have a bad guy on the run!

These idiot people who run parts of this country just don't get it!

 

[mordechaianiliewicz]

They are only concerned with this because some white people have been killed. The murder rate is the same now as it was this same time last year.

 

[darthlung]

so when does the national gaurd get called in like NO .

 

[profshadow]

This is why we must stop ALL college students from running around in black ninja outfits.

Does anyone know if the perps were also in posession of coffee cans?

Naw...it was a MUGging...they had coffee mugs!

 

[LAK]

The crime emergency declaration allows commanders more flexibility to adjust officers' schedules and reassign them to high-crime areas.

"Reassign them to high crime areas"? Aren't "high crime areas" supposed to be the focus and priority of police concentration to begin with?

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http://ussliberty.org
http://ssunitedstates.org

 

[JohnBT]

"They are only concerned with this because some white people have been killed."



I just read through this morning's Post and they have pictures of 12 of the 14 murder victims. One appears to be white. If the other two are also that would make it 3 out of 14.

The front page headline says "13 days, 14 homicides"; the murder total for last year was 195 IIRC, so 14 homicides in less than half a month works out to an annual rate of what, 336 or so? It's starting to look like the period beginning in 1988 when D.C. averaged 1 killed a day year after year.

John

 

[RealGun]

Seriously though, it seems to be unfortunate that the press is finally looking at D.C.

The leftist press does this all the time. They are simply trying to build opposition to impending legislation and hoping to make conservatives look like the bad guys. The ultimate goal is to return to power as the congressional majority and get back to some serious socialism.

 

[gunsmith]

Needs editing

The CRIMINAL-friendly National Mall, which is under the jurisdiction of Park Police

 

[Waitone]

<sniff, sniff>

I smell something here. A few days ago I saw a report saying Jackson, MS (IIRC) had declared a crime emergency due to a spike in crime (don't remember the kind). Sorta makes me wonder if there isn't a reason MS and DC both declare a crime emergency. A reason like a nice big fat pot of money just waiting to be snarfed up.

 

[longeyes]

A little fearmongering's always good for pending appropriations bills and fiefdom-building.

D.C. is awash with brigands and bandits. News? Hardly. The wise citizen will take apposite precautions. The politicians know what it would take to suppress the chaos, but a certain degreee of low-level chaos is their friend.

 

[JohnBT]

Or an election.

JT

 

[lbmii]

Well what we need to do is create a more compassionate welfare system with better public housing and better funding for our inner-city public schools. We need to distribute needles and condoms at all government buildings. We need a People’s State of equality and justice.

We should hold a peace summit. We need to stop classes in our public schools and universities and have “teach ins” for peace.

What we need is compassion. We must call for a World Peace Constitution!

Let us all hold hands. Let us march! Let us wave the red banner of the People’s State; the red banner of Peace, Equality, Justice, and Economic Compassion.

 

[lbmii]

Or then again........

We can treat snakes as snakes.

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

Looks like a big crowd of blissninny sheep ripe for the picking to criminals. Might as well hold a sign saying "I tuck tail and run!"

 

[goon]

They made their beds.

 

[ken grant]

D.C. Crime???????

Street crime may be a big problem in D.C.,but Political and White-Collar crime does more damage to the citizens of the USA than any street thugs do.