Former members of the group, created by a 2016 D.C. law, say they struggled to be heard by city officials.
Four men, ages 22 to 60, were killed over the weekend.
D.C. police have blamed illegal guns for the recent uptick in violence.
According to the White House, “killings have risen by 50 percent” in the District. Wrong!
The District is on pace to end the year with fewer than 100 homicides, potentially making 2012 the first year since 1953 to avoid a triple-digit murder rate.
Photo by Matt.Dunn Fifth District Citizens’ Advisory Council chairman Robert Vinson Brannum sent a notice out today to the MPD-5D listserv today highlighting homicide statistics that speak for themselves: The current number of homicides in DC stands at 138; at the same point last year, we experienced 184. This is a 25% reduction thus far this year. The 2008 total was 186. In 1991, DC recorded 479 homicides, its worst murder rate in the…
Remember when D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier told the Washington Times that she believed the District of Columbia could end up with fewer than 100 homicides in 2009? Oops! More official crime stats from the MPD can be found here….
Photo by M.V. Jantzen The Examiner has an interesting pair of crime stories today, both of which note dramatic decreases in certain types of crime in the District this year. First is a story that reports the number of carjackings is way down in D.C.: there have been about 200 carjackings in the city this year, compared with approximately 600 in all of 2008. Next is a piece of speculation about whether the correlation…
