A notice from Giant Food President Ira Kress said the changes were “due to a significant increase in crime and theft.” Shopping carts blocked secondary exits to the grocer. ![]() businesses are locking down and forcing customers in and out through a single chokepoint.Ī Giant grocery store in the Brentwood neighborhood did that last month. Signs that something has gone profoundly wrong in the city are everywhere.įrustrated by shoplifters brazenly hauling stolen goods out the front doors, some D.C. “The crime statistics alone are shocking,” said House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer, Kentucky Republican. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, a major proponent of the District’s failed criminal code rewrite that would have reduced penalties for some felonies, insisted at the March congressional hearing that “there is no crime crisis in Washington.” Lawmakers were unconvinced. “He wasn’t going to let me out … if I hadn’t fought my way out,” she said.ĭ.C. Craig told a home-state TV station days later that the assailant trapped her in her building’s elevator. Angie Craig, Minnesota Democrat, was assaulted inside her apartment building in February by a man with 12 convictions, most recently for assaulting a police officer. He just started stabbing him,” Christopher Barnard, who was with his friend and victim Phillip Todd during the stabbing, told a Seattle radio station. Paul was attacked outside a restaurant on H Street Northeast on March 25 by a man who had just finished a lengthy prison stint. Lawmakers were particularly unnerved by the unprovoked stabbing of an aide for Sen. Mayor Muriel Bowser and outgoing Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee are expected to return to the Capitol on Tuesday to face more questions from Congress. The crime wave has shown no sign of slowing. ![]() Russell Fry, South Carolina Republican, said during a March 29 Capitol Hill hearing on crime in the District. “People should feel safe in our nation’s capital, and, quite frankly, they don’t,” Rep. The mayhem has fueled a 10% increase in violent crime and a 27% increase in overall crime this year. “The whole criminal justice system is broken right now,” Ronald Moten, a longtime anti-crime activist and gang peacemaker, told The Times.
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