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Good morning, Washington. These are dangerous times in the District, at least according to the Washington Times. In a report with a headline that proclaims “Violent crimes of all kinds are on the rise in D.C.,” Matthew Cella reports: “A violent weekend in Washington, D.C., in which five people were shot, one fatally, in one incident and another person was killed in a separate shooting capped off a 30-day period in which all categories of violent crime in the nation’s capital increased over the past year.” Just a few lines later, however, the report states that “[v]irtually all categories of violent crime — homicides, assaults and robberies — are either unchanged or lower in the District for the year to date than for last year.” Hmm. Cella then cites a sharp increase in the 2nd police district (the district which “accounted for the smallest number of violent crimes”) as evidence for his theory; followed by the concession that the 6th police district has actually seen a decrease in violent crime over the last 30 days. The takeaway: violent crime is definitely on the rise across the city, except when it isn’t.

Lanier Likely To Stay, Say Sources: Speaking of police, the Post’s Allison Klein cites anonymous sources close to the Gray administration who believe that Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy Lanier is likely to stay on as chief under the new mayor. Lanier survived the first major round of cuts last week, when several agency heads received their walking papers in the mail.

Great Googly Moogly, WMATA: A Greater Greater Washington reader gets an answer out of WMATA regarding when we’ll be able to access Metro data through Google Maps — Victor Grimes with Metro’s IT department told James Clark that WMATA “anticipate[s] going live with Google Transit in mid-January.” Now, normally, we’d simply shake our heads and say we’ll believe it when we see it — but considering that Metro’s rail and bus data is now publicly available and this is something that has been being kicked around for years, it sounds like it might be true.

Warhol Foundation Bluffs With A 7-2 Unsuited: The latest news in the battle over David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly came yesterday, when the Warhol Foundation told the Smithsonian Institution that it would no longer fund Smithsonian exhibits if the National Portrait Gallery didn’t reinstate the video to the “Hide/Seek” exhibit. The Smithsonian declined; perhaps the threat would have carried more weight if the Warhol’s financial contribution to the Hide/Seek exhibit represented more than 0.0015 percent of the Smithsonian’s FY2010 haul from private foundations.

Briefly Noted: MPD plays part in huge $5.3 million meth bust…BWI hits record number of passengers in October…Is Kwame Brown planning on swapping Jim Graham and Tommy Wells’ committee chairmanships?…15th Street bike cycletracks almost complete…Gray discusses how to boost jobs with local business leaders…Obama honors Lakers at Ward 8 rec center…Man hospitalized after fire at 2412 Franklin Street NE…Rest in peace, Richard Holbrooke.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Google Street View caught a man defecating on H Street NE.