According to The Washington Post, a total of 160 homicides as of Monday night was driven by the more frequent use of guns in crimes.
Law enforcement officials told the newspaper that petty disputes between people who already know each other and are armed account for many of D.C.'s killings.
Despite that, the city also saw its share of heartbreaking, seemingly random deaths.
One especially wrenching c ase involved a 10-year-old girl named Makiyah Wilson who was shot and killed as she clutched a $5 bill to buy a treat from an ice cream truck in July. Police have made several arrests in that case.
"I'm horrified," Langston Civic Association President Sydelle Moore told WJLA regarding the homicide spike. "Everyone is afraid."
Officials would like to see the homicide trend change in 2019.
“When you look at our known homicide offenders in the city, about 40 percent of those have a prior gun arrest,” D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham told the Post. “At all levels of the criminal justice system, we have to do better.”
Neighboring Baltimore has reportedly seen the greatest raw number increase in killings of any other city than Chicago, which has four times the population.
In 2011, there were 211 homicides in Baltimore; by last year, that number had risen to 307.
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11 comments:
Highest murders and most restrictive gun laws.
Those gun prohibitions are really working out well for Baltimore and DC. Could decades of impotent Liberal leadership have anything to do with it?
Dave T: Strictest gun laws, highest crime rate. Statistics don't lie. This trend is persistent nationwide.
Hogan let in more illegals so we will officially a sanctuary State. Hogan Where is your AG / DOJ on punishing Drug dealers and gangs illegal activities? Hogan is this not the AG's duties instead of filing Federal lawsuits against the Federal Government? Hogan where is my self-protection laws you promised, since you are allowing criminals guns without punishment?
How's that Justice Reinvestment act working for ya, Larry?
The liberal death pool.
@ 6:05 They will NEVER admit it is the piece of garbage that it is....we've known from the start it is all a numbers game..."oh..bad boy/girl! you did X wrong...let me talk to you about it...
Let them keep killing each other. They will do us all a favor. Between planned Parent Hood KILLING millions.
Baltimore is getting what it deserves. They torn that city up over a useless thug Freddie Gray and the police stopped being proactive. Now don't they dare complain. They are getting what they wanted.
That just goes to show that we need more gun laws. (SAR.)
Gun laws in Maryland totally ineffective. But that won't stop legislators from proposing and passing even more. Hell, even Chicago lets it's citizens have the right to concealed carry. It will take SCOTUS to make Maryland give us back our rights.
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