This is a good way to shanked on the D.C. Metro.

jcbe · 2026-01-16T21:23:08 1768598588

Kind of a funny day to post this (WMATA just released data showing crime rates at a 25-year low)

lostlogin · 2026-01-17T00:54:46 1768611286

Sounds like time to send in the National Guard.

testing22321 · 2026-01-17T16:14:45 1768666485

25 year low is still an order of magnitude higher than a developed country.

nailer · 2026-01-16T22:08:03 1768601283

I have do idea about DC but I don't trust crime rate stats - a lot might be unreported.

In NYC last year someone burnt someone else to death while they sat, relaxed and watched, and in a seperate incident a person died died and someone else had sex with them afterwards.

It could that be crime is lower or it could be that insane brutality has become normalized.

lostlogin · 2026-01-17T00:55:55 1768611355

Crimes stats famously get massaged. However murders are hard to downgrade.

bigiain · 2026-01-17T02:35:56 1768617356

stavros · 2026-01-16T22:50:25 1768603825

But do you have reason to believe that crime is reported less often now than in the past?