Tourist Attacks Continue in D.C.

[Rhino]

2 Attacks on Tourists Reported Hours After D.C. Crime Emergency Declared

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

WASHINGTON — Police beefed up patrols around national landmarks Wednesday, a day after the District of Columbia's police chief declared a crime emergency in response to a string of violence that included the killing of a British activist.

At least 14 people have been killed in Washington already this month, and in the last 30 days robberies have risen 14 percent and armed assaults have jumped 18 percent. Last year, homicides in the city fell to a 20-year low of 195.

Police Chief Charles Ramsey's emergency declaration allows commanders more flexibility to adjust officers' schedules and reassign them to high-crime areas.

"That's a short term solution," Ramsey said Wednesday. "Long-term is a lot more complicated than that, and it's going to take a whole lot more than the police.".........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,203197,00.html

[Foquet]

Sounds like things are getting back to normal in my old stomping grounds.

When you get an average of 23 million tourists per year in a city of 500,000, the crap will hit the fan sometimes.

[Lubbock]

DC can not poilce or govern itself. It's always been that way. It's always been a violent city, but as long as you stayed within the "tourist" bounds, you were pretty safe. Just don't wander off the beaten path. The only reason it's getting press now is because it's spilled out of the ghettos and has begun affecting the tourist trade.

Management says, "Now, it's time to worry".

[DoctorDoom]

I thought that WDC was supposed to be a crime-free utopia when private firearm ownership was banned. Golly, could it be that gun laws don't affect the lawless?

[Rhino]

Just don't wander off the beaten path.
They're getting attacked on the Mall, which is the beaten path. That's why the emergency was declared.

[Foquet]

Yup. The Mall is the heartbeat for tourists in DC, just as Central Park and Times Square is for NYC. Although, people generally act a lot better on The Mall then in those areas of NYC.

Granted, you can be hit by crime anywhere in DC, not just NE or SE. In fact, it is safer in those areas during Tourist Season, in a way.

[Lubbock]

Read the entire post, Rhino. What I said was that at one time, as long as you didn't wander off the beaten path, you were pretty safe. NOW the violence is spilling out into the tourist areas.

[Rhino]

You didn't say "at one time", but you did use past tense. I just didn't know you still meant past tense when you started a new sentence in present tense. An understandable misunderstanding. No big deal.

[Wolfcounsel]

"I thought that WDC was supposed to be a crime-free utopia when private firearm ownership was banned. Golly, could it be that gun laws don't affect the lawless?" --DoctorDoom

Those officials were wrong. An average of 23 million tourists per year in a city of 500,000 obviously calls for (do the math) 4,370 more anti-firearm ownership laws to really hammer the message of gun control home.

Ask any liberal.