Homicides in Washington D.C., previously reported to be tracking significantly upwards on 2022, have spiked even further, with preliminary data showing a year-on-year increase of 35 percent.
Where homicides in D.C., governed by Democrat Mayor Muriel Bowser and an all-Democrat City Council, stood at 184 this this time last year, they now stand at 249.
D.C. homicides broke the 200 barrier for the first time since 2003 in Joe Biden’s first year as President, and remained above 200 in 2022.
At 249 with all of December and part of November still to go, homicides for 2023 are already more than double the 2013 total of 104 and have surpassed the 2003 total of 248, making this the American capital’s deadliest year in two decades.
Every other category of violent crime listed in the Metropolitan Police Department’s “at-a-glance” report has also increased, with the sole exception of “sex abuse” – down by a statistically insignificant one percent. Robbery is up even more than homicide, with a 67 percent increase.
Overall property crime is also up, with motor vehicle theft up by an astonishing 96 percent.
Separate police figures for carjackings, which passed 900 over Thanksgiving, show a 108 percent increase, with carjackings involving firearms up by a still greater 119 percent.
