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If you're concerned about average D.C. street crime (and who isn't), you really need to be reading Borderstan on a regular basis. The blog has been doing a consistently great job of warning residents about the everyday muggings and burglaries that mostly go unreported by larger media outlets, and this week has been no exception. Note this report of a 9 a.m. mugging bank robbery on K Street: D.C. police were searching for a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying robbery suspect on Monday who successfully mugged some unsuspecting pedestrian. "And you have to love the irony of mugger in a suit on K Street." Indeed. (Hat tip City Desk). UPDATE: As noted in comments, this particular crime appears to have been a bank robbery and not a mugging. My praise of Borderstan's general vigilance about street crime still stands, though.

The Borderstan blog alerts us to what appears to be a string of armed robberies in the past week in their Logan/Dupont/Shaw overlap area. Three different gun-involved muggings have happened along R Street NW between New Hampshire and 13th, and another happened the other night at 11th Street NW and Vermont Ave. We also heard about at least one other armed robbery Thursday night, right around 14th and T Streets NW. Stay alert in the 'Stan this weekend, DCist readers.

WJLA has a story about a recent uptick in the number of residential burglaries in the Dupont neighborhood — there have been at least eight burglaries in the area in the last week, and police are warning residents about thieves entering their homes through skylights and upper-floor windows via rooftops.

WJLA reports an increase in armed robberies in the neighborhood east of Dupont Circle, an area that some residents have been drawing attention to over the last six months by campaigning to get people to start calling it Borderstan. The folks behind the Borderstan movement roughly define the area as lying between 14th and 16th Streets NW and P and S Streets NW, which happens to be split down the middle between ANCs 2F and 2B, and PSAs 307 and 208.