{"id":60576,"date":"2015-06-26T09:27:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60576"},"modified":"2015-06-26T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T13:27:49","slug":"homicides-up-in-dc-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60576","title":{"rendered":"Homicides up in DC this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/dc-homicides-jump-20-percent-amid-a-surge-in-may-june\/2015\/06\/25\/2effd93c-1b37-11e5-93b7-5eddc056ad8a_story.html?tid=hpModule_13097a0c-868e-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394\">The Washington Post<\/a> reports that homicides in the District of Columbia are up 20% from last year. The police chief, Cathy Lanier blames the loss of 500 police officers from the Metro DC department;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This year\u2019s homicide count stands at 64, compared with 53 at this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Other recent homicide victims include a young woman shot waiting for a bus, a motorist shot on the Anacostia Freeway during rush hour, a 15-year-old boy shot after allegedly refusing to give up his designer belt and a homeless man stabbed in a church courtyard. Police have made arrests in the slaying of the teen and in the Savopoulos case, although in that one authorities say they are seeking additional suspects.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is that it is arguments that result in violence,\u201d Lanier said. \u201cMost seem to be over very petty issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Six killings this year were domestic related, Lanier said, and many homicides involved stabbings rather than guns. The chief said there were fewer shootings and assaults with deadly weapons. \u201cOverall, the violence is down,\u201d she said. \u201cThe lethality of the violence is up.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how you explain that &#8211; more citizens are legally armed with guns this year than last year, but homicides with knives has increased.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, add one more homicide to that count. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/story\/29412564\/man-whose-body-was-found-burning-in-trash-can-had-been-shot\">WTTG<\/a> reports that a body found burning in a trash container was shot first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post reports that homicides in the District of Columbia are up 20% from last &hellip; <a title=\"Homicides up in DC this year\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60576\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Homicides up in DC this year<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}