By
Amos Gelb
- November 20, 2024
Editors Corner
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Details Let’s start with the good news. The number of homicides and shootings in the city are down this year again. That is two years where the numbers have been falling. ... Read More
By
LaTrina Antoine
- December 15, 2023
Editors Corner
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Details Last week I sat through a conference focused on shootings in the United States. It was held by the Center for American Progress and featured, over several days, mothers of... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 28, 2023
Editors Corner
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Details “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face,” Mike Tyson said. DC is getting punched in the face. Homicides are up. Shootings are up. Carjackings are up. ... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 17, 2023
Daily Stories
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Editors Corner
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Details Our city’s homicide number says it all – 50 more murders this year than at the same time last year. But why? What is happening beyond the headlines? Other media... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- December 15, 2022
Daily Stories
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Editors Corner
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Featured
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Details 2023 will mark the 8th year that D.C. Witness has brought unprecedented reporting and data transparency to DC’s criminal justice system. Along the way, we have pioneered a new kind... Read More
By
Amos Gelb
- January 20, 2022
Editors Corner
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Details As 2021 wound down, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser sent out a public missive focusing, again, on illegal guns as the cause of D.C.’s ever-rising homicide rate. For the last six... Read More
By
Tory Lysik [former]
- August 23, 2021
Court
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Daily Stories
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Editors Corner
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Homicides
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Presentments
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Suspects
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Details Six domestic violence defendants were released, one placed on the High-Intensity Supervision Program (HISP) and one was held during presentments on Aug. 20. A total of 30 defendants were brought... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- February 2, 2021
Editors Corner
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Op-Eds
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Details With homicides in Washington, DC starting the year with a pace that has already exceeded last year’s total during the same timeframe, Councilman Trayon White is calling for a declaration... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- January 15, 2021
Editors Corner
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Op-Eds
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Details The country is under a very unprecedented time. We are still suffering from a global pandemic that has claimed the lives of more than 300,000 Americans. Without going into political... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 23, 2020
Editors Corner
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Op-Eds
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Details D.C.Witness has been covering homicide cases in the District of Columbia since 2015 You get to see our work every day, but there is so much more than we can... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 17, 2020
Editors Corner
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Homicides
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Op-Eds
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Details Over the weekend, former President Barack Obama said that what was needed to overcome our political divides were facts everybody, no matter their political identity, could agree on. We could... Read More
By
D.C. Witness Staff
- November 10, 2020
Editors Corner
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Op-Eds
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Details Dear Reader: As 2020 starts to wind down, we are truly proud of the work we have done while covering crime cases and gathering data on those cases in Washington,... Read More