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Yesterday in Washington, D.C.

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A metropolitan police officer puts some tape near the site of a shooting incident, in Washington, D.C.
A metropolitan police officer puts some tape near the site of a shooting incident, in Washington, D.C., August 10, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)

This proliferation of crime is not happening in most other American cities.

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Three police officers were shot:

Children at a nearby school had to be escorted into the building by police to begin their day:

Climate activists vandalized the case holding the Constitution at the National Archives:


Just across the Potomac in Arlington, Va., someone stole a FedEx truck off the street in broad daylight:


Two armed men robbed someone just outside the city’s main arena. They were about a block away from the National Portrait Gallery on one side and the federal courthouse on the other side:

Three people were found shot dead in an apartment:


Three more people were shot on the street:

Again, all of that happened yesterday.

This proliferation of crime is not happening in most other American cities. This is a local problem with a local solution: more police, more arrests, and more prosecutions.

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Dominic Pino is the economics editor and Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at National Review and the host of the American Institute for Economic Research podcast Econception.

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