Murders way, way down in DC this year

[OzzyKP]

Actually just in the last month adult curfew have been (for the first time ever as far as I know) considered in Chicago and Patterson, NJ. Neither passed or were really introduced seriously I think.

Around the world they only come in in times of war or national emergency. I believe there was a curfew in New Orleans during Katrina.

[OzzyKP]

Exporting the murders to PG sounds more likely. That place is turning into a third world county.

Ozzy, I'm guessing you've heard the same curfew ads I've heard about PG. Two things bother me:

1) It's a crime to be outside. That's just anti-freedom in general. Sacrificing a fundamental right (going outside your house) in exchange for the chimerical promise of public safety is a fool's deal.

2) The fines seem outrageous. Assuming that the curfews serve a valid public purpose (and that's giving them a lot), the idea that it's appropriate to fine people who are probably struggling financially really bothers me. Times are tough for everybody, and these curfews are mostly targeting lower income folks who are struggling more that most.

Hooray for DC.

I haven't actually. I'm not in PG and I don't watch much TV. But... if you really hate curfews and want to help do something about them the NYRA-DC chapter is having a meeting tomorrow afternoon in Dupont. It'll start at 3:30 and be held at the Cosi right by the south entrance to the Dupont circle metro stop. Come on over.

More info:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=157892280055&index=1

[DanS]

I actually saw a NYRA canvasser on the streets of DC earlier this summer. Thought maybe I would stop and harass him for OzzyKP's sake.

[OzzyKP]

A canvasser? Where and when? We don't really have canvassers.

[Dinner]

Perhaps overturning part of DC's gun control laws made the pickins a little harder for the gangs. It no so much fun shooting up neihborhoods when they shoot back.

Nice evidenceless hypothesis. I think I'll go with the huge ramp up in the number of police as the reason though no doubt gentrification also plays a role.

[Patroklos]

They are just better at getting rid of the bodies this year

[Ben Kenobi]

Funny, Obama gets credited and people don't refer to that as an evidence-less hypothesis. Good for Washington DC.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You are such a moron, Ben.

[Ben Kenobi]

Dunno, I trust Lefty more than I do the rest of you lot. Good on DC on removing their gun ban.

[Imran Siddiqui]

On this part, you hoser:

Obama gets credited

[Ben Kenobi]

That's actually a pretty interesting hypothesis. It seems possible that Obama had some impact.

I'll take my apology in 20s please.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Next line by the same poster was:

More likely, it's all because TimexWatch joined the police force.

Your humor detector is waaaay broken. Or you are being deliberately obtuse.

[rah]

I vote obtuse

[Darius871]

Next line by the same poster was:

More likely, it's all because TimexWatch joined the police force.

Your humor detector is waaaay broken. Or you are being deliberately obtuse.

[Lefty Scaevola]

Nice evidenceless hypothesis.

Nice redundency, if it had some evidence or testing, it would be a theory, not just a hypotheses. Now tell me how much safer you would have felt in Iraq if you had been subject to gun control and been unarmed.