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.

The WJLA story quotes ANC 2B commissioner Jack Jacobsen as saying that “criminals know” that the area is split between two police patrol service areas and so are targeting the neighborhood on purpose. While that’s probably a little far-fetched, there have been three armed robberies in the past five days in the immediate area, on 15th and R Streets and one on S Street. Hopefully the Borderstan movement’s efforts to bring increased police patrols to the area will prove successful.