Well, let’s make every day a crime emergency
The District’s crime rate has slowed after the declaration of a crime emergency during each of the past three years, and the current emergency appears to be following suit.
Two slayings, including one in Northwest yesterday, have been recorded in the District since police Chief Charles H. Ramsey declared an emergency Wednesday. There had been 13 killings in the first 11 days of this month.
So, kudos to DC for declaring an emergency to get them to act on something they should have been doing all along. Or something.
August 4th, 2006 at 7:51 am
So if it’s such an improvement, why did the anchor on the morning news here say today that they were investigating their 15th murder since the emergency was declared?
And note that the article you link to is dated July 18.