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2006-07-12 -Lurid Crime Tales-

2 attacks reported after crime emergency declared in D.C

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Posted by Steve 2006-07-12 12:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Quagmire! Redeploy our troops to North Carolina! LOL!

It kinda ticks me though that they only decide to take action when a gov's aide is killed. Be nice if they did it for all of the rest of us citizens too. Whatever it takes, I suppose.

Throat slit makes me wonder if it was "disaffected youths".

Posted by 2b 2006-07-12 14:37|| 2006-07-12 14:37|| Front Page Top

#2 The Capitol Police are far too busy looking out for Congresscritters McKinney and Kennedy (both of them) to be bothered taking care of a few tourists.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2006-07-12 14:40|| 2006-07-12 14:40|| Front Page Top

#3 1. DC does too have a National Guard unit, though I believe the mayor does not have authority to call them up.

2. Even before 9/11, DC was the capital of Cops Sitting Around in Squad Cars Waiting For Something To Happen, and it has truly gotten ridiculous ever since. There are a phenomenally large number of them posted around and near the Mall, at the monuments, near Congress and near the White House. Fleets of them, in fact.

3. It's very disturbing if not entirely surprising that these incidents are happening, DC had been improving tremendously and I'm not keen to see the regression.

4. We're due for a new mayor in the fall, and I'm not really impressed with the contenders.

5. Sigh.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-07-12 15:31|| 2006-07-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Seafarious:

Part of the reason behind DC's slight improvement, although July '06 has gotten off to a rotten start, is that a lot of the criminals have shifted on over to next door Prince George's County. That county's annual homicide totals have gone from 70 in 2000 to a record-shattering 175 in 2006.

GORY PRINCE GEORGE'S

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