Sitemap - 2023 - DC Crime Facts

Preventing crime by enforcing bench warrants

Playing the blame game with crime

Solving more crimes deters crime

Ignored warnings about Court Social Services are having deadly consequences for DC kids

60% of DC high schoolers are chronically absent

DC government agencies don't want you to read their performance plans

The rhetoric and reality of DC's prosecutors

Crime increased 1% in October

What happened to DC's juvenile detention system?

"Call them - they won't do anything"

The USAO's partial recovery in prosecution rates

Preventing crime by keeping kids in school

Crime fell 16% in September

Chief Smith announces MPD's new strategic plan

How is DC reacting to youth crime?

DC's fragmented crime data landscape

Crime fell 7% in August

Calling 911 and not getting an answer

Crime is up. But prosecutions fell 4% in July.

Getting serious about recruiting more police

Summer Crime Update

DC's ongoing crime lab debacle

What have we done to our police?

Scandal and a new Chief at MPD

DC passed a crime bill. What should we do now?

How even serious violent crimes fall through the cracks

What would Mayor Bowser's crime bill actually do?

Less than 40% of MPD's arrests for illegal guns result in a conviction

MPD's 571 officer "overtime force"

Monthly update: Crime rose 6% in May

What MPD's own report says is wrong with MPD

How does crime in DC compare to other cities?

Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit

Monthly Update: Crime rose 4% in April

Budget cuts and 770 untested violent crime DNA samples

MPD has cool tech to detect gunshots, but does it help?

MPD arrest trends: More gun charges & out-of-staters

What correlates with changes in crime rates?

Rearrests rose 20% in FY 2022

Monthly Update: Crime fell 12% in March

MPD's homicide clearance rate falls to 62%

MPD worked on Noelle Wilson's murder for a year and a half. The USAO mysteriously dropped the case.

Public safety in the Mayor's proposed budget

Focus on preventing crime

MPD Detective: “The people working the slow parts of the city are paid the same as the people getting ground into dust by the work load.”

Fewer Arrests + Worse Cases = Fewer Prosecutions

The US Attorney's Office declined to prosecute 2/3 of the people that MPD arrested

MPD got an extra ~$5M to hire more police...it's not going well

Property Crime in DC

Homicide in DC

Crime in Washington, DC: January & February 2023 Update

Coming soon