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Most_kinds_of_Dirt t1_jad59nr wrote

Reply to comment by tehruben in After violent weekend, D.C. homicides up 40 percent over last year by tehruben

Whether a number hits 200 or not is kind of a helpful metric, but it can be more informative to just look at the actual totals:

Category 1992 2002 2007 2012 2017 2022
Homicide 443 264 181 88 116 201
Sex Abuse 215 262 192 263 295 158
Assault w/ a dangerous weapon 8,568 4,854 3,686 2,356 1,859 1,383
Robbery 7,459 3,731 4,261 4,262 2,179 2,064
Violent Crime (total) 16,685 9,109 8,320 6,969 4,449 3,806

Data for other years is available here:

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deepstate_fangirl t1_jad4ld4 wrote

Reply to After violent weekend, D.C. homicides up 40 percent over last year by tehruben

There was an Ezra Klein show episode last year about murder rates and police presence that I think did a really good job making sense of what's going on, namely:

  • murder rates increasing
  • police presence makes crime rates decrease
  • police presence also traumatic for communities

The guest lays out that the US is a powder keg right now because we continually treat symptoms instead of root causes.

Link because it's a good listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-is-murder-spiking-and-can-cities-address-it/id1548604447?i=1000542813165

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NorseTikiBar t1_jad469c wrote

Reply to comment by guy_incognito784 in After violent weekend, D.C. homicides up 40 percent over last year by tehruben

I think I'm still willing to say that trends will even out as the year progresses and we'll end up with a lower number of homicides than 2022 (because right now we're talking about an increase from 25 to 35), but I would completely agree that remote learning meant a lot of at-risk kids got lost through the cracks and that we're going to be seeing a lot of trouble coming out of them as a result. That remains my biggest problem with a lot of cities' covid policies, and it's also unfortunately a situation where conservatives got to the right solution of opening schools earlier for all of the wrong reasons.

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NorseTikiBar t1_jad3e12 wrote

Reply to comment by Reeetankiesbtfo in After violent weekend, D.C. homicides up 40 percent over last year by tehruben

And I'm not sure how you can try and claim that DC is so wildly dangerous when Baltimore is literally an hour away.

This is a nationwide trend, and yet some of y'all are so goddamned intent on trying to point the finger at any little thing that local government does when the reality is far more complicated.

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Guinea-Charm t1_jad33wp wrote

Reply to Why are the kids in NE so terrible? by schmillischnede_dad

Kids aren't any different today that they were when you were a kid. Kids are assholes and we were all this way when we were kids. Public schools are obviously going to have more kids with behavior problems because a private school hand selects their students. This is a fucking stupid post. Do what the rest of us do and ignore children. And btw, you want to see real annoying children? Ride the Subway in Manhattan after 3pm on a weekday. Kids individually aren't too bad but in groups unmonitored by adults, they are a menance (and to clarify, this is exactly how we acted when we were kids). Grow up and have some self awareness.

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