Lawlessness in District has residents, workers and businesses on knife’s edge -
Move over, New York, Chicago and San Francisco. The blood-soaked wave of lawless, often random, violence that has swamped America’s largest cities in recent years is flooding the streets of the nation’s capital — leaving residents on edge, national lawmakers frustrated and local leaders scrambling for answers.
The mayhem has fueled a 10% increase in violent crime and a 27% increase in overall crime so far this year. “He didn’t ask for anything. He didn’t say anything. He just started stabbing him,” Christopher Barnard, who was with his friend and victim Phillip Todd during the stabbing, told a Seattle radio station.
Chanel has since responded by locking its doors and having guards queue shoppers in a line outside until a staffer is ready to receive the customer. “Right now, there’s no moral compass in the streets — there’s no moral compass anywhere — and that’s the problem that we have in society,” Mr. Moten said during a March community meeting at the Petworth Library.
There are about 3,400 active duty officers working in the District, the fewest in roughly 50 years, according to Chief Contee. “The violence you’re witnessing right now needs to be addressed,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s going to make a real challenge for whoever is the new police chief.” Data from the Justice Department revealed that 67% of the cases brought to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in D.C. were not moved along the legal process during fiscal 2022, which ended in September.
Charles “Cully” Stimson, a former prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in D.C. and San Diego who now works for the Heritage Foundation, had a different diagnosis for the lagging prosecution rate. The District has more than $1 billion in unpaid traffic and parking fines spread across more than six million tickets since 2000, according to a recent Washington Post analysis. Over the past five years, the report said that about 1,200 cars are linked to fines of over $20,000.Republicans on Capitol Hill are echoing the scores of parents and city residents who say it’s time for the city to end the post-George Floyd policies that have hamstrung police and emboldened criminals.
“I don’t think kids should be treated as adults,” he said at a community forum on juvenile crime. “Kids are kids and when you’re talking about teenagers in particular — their brains are developing, their minds are developing, and they’re biologically prone to make mistakes — that’s what we’ve all done as we’ve grown up.”
His accomplice, 17, pleaded guilty for his role in Robinson Jr.’s shooting and was briefly at large after skipping his April sentencing hearing. The teen had his hearing last week after being re-arrested on drug distribution charges. Mr. Theresa believes the District is seeing the inevitable result of the failure of local schools during the pandemic. School closings left many kids to their own devices and caused some of them to pick up unlawful — and often violent — habits that are proving hard to break.
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