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Fox’s Will Thomas Mugged, Despite Overall Downward Trend
Wednesday night local Fox news anchor Will Thomas was mugged at gunpoint at Wisconsin and N. Thomas gave up his wallet and was physically unharmed by the assailant.
Within a day of this unfortunate event, GM penned a rebuttal to Harry Jaffe’s missive on the supposed increase in assaults with a deadly weapon across the Second Police District. But what about muggings? Is Thomas’ mugging part of a spike?
No.
As of this time last year Georgetown had experienced 39 robberies. This year that number is 37. In fact, if we keep at this pace, Georgetown will experience the fewest muggings in over four years:
Filed under Crime
The Morning Metropolitan
Dumbarton Oaks Park by Dan MacQuade.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Georgetown Cupcake and Baked and Wired getting new competition from a chain.
- Four Seasons providing breakfast customers with a complimentary Kindle.
- Georgetown Week comes up with a nice list of events for this week.
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The Morning Metropolitan
Montrose Park by SteadyAlberta.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- GM couldn’t make it to the GU 10 Year Plan meeting on transportation. Some student reporters did. So did CAG. Needless to say, they saw things a bit differently.
- Former Councilmember Harold Brazil is suing the Georgetown tattoo parlor where he got into a fight last October. Brazil has already been convicted for assault as a result of the incident.
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Violent Crime Up, Except Where It’s Not
Harry Jaffe, one of the deans of Washington journalism and co-author of the definitive book on modern DC political history, has a knack for getting things wrong about Georgetown. When he doesn’t think we’re a dying commercial district, he thinks the neighborhood blocked Metro. Now he’s back raising fears about a violent crime wave, and he drops Georgetown’s name ominously:
In the 2nd Police District, which includes Georgetown, assaults with a dangerous weapon, excluding guns, went up 143 percent this October compared to 2008.
Wow, those are some alarming stats. They surely mean that the Second District, and Georgetown in particular, is a dangerous place. Right?
Well, no. Jaffe is throwing around percentages not actual numbers. According to the stats GM found, the number of ADW without a gun in October for MPD2D was 17, up from 7 last year. Yes that is a 143% rise, but the plural of anecdote is not data. And these numbers are so small that they barely qualify as “plural”. Continue reading
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The Morning Metropolitan
Georgetown Street by Jason Pier.
Good morning Georgetown, here’s the latest:
- Much controversy has followed Chancellor Rhee’s comments to CAG on the future of Hardy School.
- Nice write up on the passing of Virginia Luce Allen, founder of the Georgetown Senior Center. Mrs. Allen was a fourth generation Georgetowner.
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