Believe it or not, Washington, DC’s homicide crisis is still getting worse
Zachary Faria
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It has now been three years since the COVID pandemic began, but, in Washington, D.C., the violent crime surge has actually continued to become worse, proving that soft-on-crime policies are still emboldening violent criminals.
Washington recorded its 100th homicide on Tuesday, marking the earliest time the city has reached that mark in at least 20 years. This is two weeks earlier than last year’s 100th homicide and over a month earlier than the mark in 2021. This is now four straight years that the city has reached 100 homicides before the end of July.
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For comparison, in 2019, the city didn’t reach that mark until August. In 2014, Washington didn’t reach 100 homicides until Christmas Eve. In 2012, the city didn’t even hit that mark at all, with only 89 homicides the entire year. The average date of the city’s 100th homicide over the past 15 years is Sept. 16.
Each of the past two years, Washington has had more than 200 homicides, the worst back-to-back totals since 2002 and 2003. Violent crime is up 16%, and overall crime is up 27%. Through the first four months of this year, double the number of young people had been shot in the city compared to last year.
Sounds like something that could reasonably be called a “crime crisis,” doesn’t it? Not according to D.C. leaders, such as D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, who said in March that “there is not a crime crisis in Washington, D.C.” In fact, city leaders actually wanted to make life easier for criminals, attempting to weaken the punishments for homicide, carjacking, and robbery. It took Congress stepping in to keep the city barreling down that path.
Washington has spent the last several years pursuing a pro-criminal agenda and has unsurprisingly been plagued by a growing crime crisis that it still hasn’t been able (or willing) to get under control. All the while, Democrats whine that the city hasn’t been made a state yet so they can get two free senators in Congress. Washington leadership has proved that they don’t deserve to run a city, let alone a state, and even congressional Democrats were forced to agree when they rolled back the city’s pro-criminal reforms.
Things are only going to get worse, given that Washington is the most Democratic city in the country. There are no real alternatives to lead the city other than the same liberal ideologues that are denying that the years of bloodshed in the city are a crisis, and there is no indication that any more centrist Democrats will rise to the top. The city will continue to protect criminals from jail time more than it will protect residents from being shot, all while pretending everything is going swimmingly.