And that includes this week’s Logan Circle mass shooting, leading to one murder. As of 9am Friday, there were three homicides in D.C. this week, bring the total to 86* homicides this year. Last year, during the same time period, we had 119 homicides, and in the surge year of 2023, there were 239 homicides during that same time period.

Both violent and property crimes declined this week, which is a bit of a bright spot.

2026 will be the first year since the last year of Biden’s presidency where homicides don’t decline by 33%.

Hoping for a much better week next week.

*Three of the 89 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).