“It’s a response to a lot of residents who ask these questions,” says DMPED spokesman Joaquin McPeek, particularly citing residents’ who want to know what is being done about the affordable housing crisis.
Jan 29, 2013
Fun Facts From D.C.’s Annual Financial Report
Find out how much garbage the city hauled away, how many potholes it filled, how many books are in the library system, and much more.
Jan 09, 2013
D.C Residents Watch Way More Porn Than Anyone Else
According to statistics released by Pornhub.com, a video library of carnal features, D.C. residents led the nation in the number of pornographic videos watched per capita.
Peak-hour cycling has grown by close to 200 percent over the last two years, according to the D.C. Department of Transportation.
Oct 12, 2012
Thefts of Electronic Devices Increases on Metro
Crime on Metro doesn’t happen often, but snatch-and-grab thefts of electronic devices is up.
In terms of bike-sharing networks across the country, Capital Bikeshare is beating all possible competitors.
Last week’s news that D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier was juking the stats on the city’s homicide clearance rate by including years-old cases may have seemed like a ding in her otherwise strong armor, but she chose to fight back over the weekend and won herself a partial victory when the Post published a lengthy clarification to its story.
Feb 07, 2012
Where Poverty Lived Then and Where it Lives Today
A new report from the Urban Institute says that while the D.C. area weathered the late-2000s recession “relatively well,” the region still endures a stubbornly high unemployment rate and a poverty rate of about 8 percent.
So far in 2011, there have been 100 homicides in the District. That’s 17 percent fewer killings than 2010. Of course, the number of murders alone don’t fully define broader crime trends in the District.