Category Archives: DC

Observed at the corner of 14th and Corcoran Streets NW, Logan Circle, D.C.:

Right now, D.C., not official Wor-Shing-Tun, but the mainland colony of the District of Columbia is debating a teenage curfew policy. Ordinarily, this wouldn’t be of much interest to anyone other than the local juveniles and their parents, but one … Continue reading →

The really good news is, as of 9am this morning, D.C. had no homicides for an entire week, unlike the last two weeks which were bad. At this time last year, D.C. had experienced 59 homicides, compared to 31* this … Continue reading →

Observed in Blagden Alley, D.C.:

Though we are still doing better than we were in April. This week, D.C. tallied 31* homicides for the year, though one of this week’s homicides occurred in April, an increase from last week’s count of 27. That said, at … Continue reading →

Observed at the corner of 16th and P Streets, NW, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

While the only good week is a week with no homicides, a decline in the number of homicides is better than the alternative. With two homicides, homicides increased to 27* this week–there were 50 homicides at this same time last … Continue reading →

Schlossberg is clearly a guy who did not do the reading. For reasons that have mostly to do with random internet virality and not keen insight, a couple of Bluesky posts I made about D.C. statehood blew up over the … Continue reading →

Since last week, we really have not seen any changes in the crime rate for most categories. That said, homicides increased to 25* this week–there were 48 homicides at this same time last year. As has been the case throughout … Continue reading →

Since we last looked at D.C.’s crime data two weeks ago, we had a very bad five day stretch where six people were killed, including the daylight shooting of two teenagers (which would not have been prevented by the curfews … Continue reading →