Total carjackings in Washington D.C. have now passed the 900 mark, with two incidents over Thanksgiving taking the count for 2023 to 901. Ninety-two of these carjackings took place over just the last 30 days, with carjackings for the year up by 108 percent on 2022.
Carjackings involving a firearm account for the lion’s share of incidents, at 695, and are up by even more than carjackings overall.
Several high-profile incidents have taken place recently, including one in which House Democrat Enrique ‘Henry’ Cuellar was carjacked outside a building housing many Congressmen, and a possible attempted carjacking involving Joe Biden’s granddaughter Naomi.
On its Carjacking Dashboard, the Metropolitan Police Department acknowledges carjackings “can be particularly scary” – but it insists that “[s]tatistically speaking… your chances of being a victim of carjacking are very slim”.
Preliminary data accurate to November 22nd indicates total crime in D.C. is up by 27 percent on 2022. Violent crime is up by an even higher 40 percent, including a 35 percent increase in homicide.
The D.C. government is entirely dominated by Democrats, with Mayor Muriel Bowser and every member of the City Council being members or former members of the leftist party.
