DC crime statistics show spikes in first 12 days of 2023

Washington, D.C., is seeing a spike in crime throughout the board in comparison with acts dedicated at about this time in 2022.

Motorized vehicle thefts are up 89% from 2022. As of Wednesday, there had been 189 motorized vehicle thefts in 2023. There have been 100 by this time in 2022, in line with the town’s crime statistics database.

Homicides are up 40%. D.C. has already seen seven homicides in comparison with 5 presently in 2022. Violent crime total is up 3%.

Solely two classes are down thus far in 2023. They’re housebreaking at minus 23% and theft at minus 3%.

Total, 976 crimes have been dedicated in D.C. for the reason that begin of 2023 — 38% greater than this time in 2022.

There have already been two high-profile shootings within the district this yr.

On Jan. 7, Karon Blake, 13, was shot and killed after a longtime D.C. authorities worker noticed him allegedly breaking into autos on a road in northeast D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser stated.

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The taking pictures of a minor prompted widespread outrage and calls for for accountability from the D.C. neighborhood. Individuals are asking police to launch the accused worker’s identify and workplace.

4 days later, two youngsters, ages 6 and 9, and an grownup man have been shot in northwest D.C. after an assault on an unhurt Metrobus passenger led to photographs being fired outdoors of the transit bus. The three sustained severe however non-life-threatening accidents.

The final months of 2022 in D.C. have been riddled with crime, most notably the a number of shootings on the D.C. Metro transit system in December.

Nevertheless, the town’s database exhibits crime decreased between 2021 and 2022 in most classes aside from arson, which noticed no change.

In an open letter to the neighborhood, D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee stated that 203 individuals misplaced their lives to “mindless violence” in 2022.

“That’s 203 too many, interval,” Contee stated.

“Again and again, we see individuals turning to unlawful weapons to commit acts of violence. It’s utterly unacceptable, and it should cease now.”

He stated that whereas the statistics lowering doesn’t deliver consolation to households that misplaced individuals to crime, it’s as much as the neighborhood to proceed the downward pattern of violence in D.C.

“We will’t do that alone. In each incident, somebody is aware of one thing,” Contee stated. “It’d appear to be one thing small, however that info may very well be a chunk of the puzzle that helps our detectives resolve instances and produce justice to family members of victims.”

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The Washington Examiner reached out to Bowser’s workplace for remark.