{"id":1786,"date":"2008-06-02T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2008-06-02T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:15:32","slug":"pull-out-now-the-war-is-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Pull out now! The war is lost!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We must pull our police out of the war ravaged 5th District of Washington DC. This weekend’s death toll was 8 according to the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

As District residents and officials grappled with what was already shaping up as one of the city’s most violent weekends in recent memory, another young man was fatally shot and still another injured in Southeast early yesterday.<\/p>\n

No arrests had been made in the death of Edward Mitchell, 21, who was found bleeding from the stomach in the 4600 block of Livingston Road SE by officers on routine patrol about 2:40 a.m. The slaying remains under investigation, police said, as do the other shootings and stabbings in the spate that began Friday night. The weekend’s tally: eight people dead and at least eight wounded. (One death resulted from a police shooting in a domestic dispute. The man killed was identified yesterday as Clyde Tinch, 52, of Northeast Washington.)<\/p>\n

Most of the weekend’s killings took place in the 5th Police District in Northeast, despite increased police patrols since a crime surge in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I lived in the 5th District until two years ago and moved when I saw the increase in crime. I warned my council member, Vincent Orange<\/a>, a year before I moved that things were getting more violent, but he cited the decrease in murders<\/a> as reason to be unconcerned. When it was apparent that no one was going to do anything, I moved.<\/p>\n

But, to use the Democrat’s proposed strategy in Iraq, we should just pull the police out of the Fifth District and let the residents fend for themselves. It’s probably the police presence there that’s causing this anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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