Washington, DC, Crime Soars 23% in 2023 After City Tries to Reduce Punishments

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, homicides have dramatically increased (25 percent) in 2023, along with vehicle theft (111 percent), theft from auto (21 percent), theft (16 percent), and arson (300 percent). Over the past five years, crimes involving guns have increased by 40 percent, despite many gun control initiatives.

The most recent city analysis of crime shows black males are the largest victims of homicide (78 percent). Black women account for 15 percent). White males only account for four percent, and white females account for nearly zero percent.

The violence has risen to such a degree in the city that criminals appear to be increasingly brazen.

One early morning in February, democrat Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) was attacked inside her Washington, DC, apartment building. The attack left Craig bruised. She later said the coffee she threw at the attacker “really saved the day.”