And that’s despite–or maybe because of–a massive police and military presence during the last week due to the cultic activity at the White House on Sunday. As of 9am today, D.C. had reported five more homicides this week (as occurred last week, one of those happened weeks ago), yielding a total for the year of 42*. One thing worth noting is that, to date, Ward 3 has had four murders, while most entire years it experiences two to three murders**. At this time last year, there had been 74 homicides, and in the surge year of 2023, over the same time period, there had been 110 homicides. Still a vast improvement, but a very bad week.

Other crimes, on the whole bounced around a little, but had no discrete trends.

That said, we are still well on pace for another 33 percent drop in homicides for the third straight year.

Hoping for a better week next week.

*Three of the 45 murders reported this year actually occurred in other years (e.g., a missing persons case from 2023 turned into a homicide case this year with new evidence).

**Ordinarily, that increase wouldn’t really register, but given the historically low homicide rate the difference between one and four murders in Ward 3 actually does matter.