Prince George's County Crime Rates Drop
The Post today talks about the lessening of homicide, robberies, and carjackings:
SINCE THE beginning of the year, someone has been murdered about every three days in Prince George's County. That's quite an improvement. In 2005, the county, on average, had a homicide every other day.
Last week, Prince George's Police Chief Melvin C. High held a news conference to tout an impressive drop in crime. Sixty-one people have been killed this year, compared with 84 this time last year. Commercial robberies have declined 49 percent, and carjackings are down 27 percent. This in a county once saddled with surging crime rates -- from 2000 to 2005, robbery and car thefts increased 76 percent and carjacking climbed 175 percent.
This is good news for me, seeing that I reside in PG County, although the statistics are still far from great...
SINCE THE beginning of the year, someone has been murdered about every three days in Prince George's County. That's quite an improvement. In 2005, the county, on average, had a homicide every other day.
Last week, Prince George's Police Chief Melvin C. High held a news conference to tout an impressive drop in crime. Sixty-one people have been killed this year, compared with 84 this time last year. Commercial robberies have declined 49 percent, and carjackings are down 27 percent. This in a county once saddled with surging crime rates -- from 2000 to 2005, robbery and car thefts increased 76 percent and carjacking climbed 175 percent.
This is good news for me, seeing that I reside in PG County, although the statistics are still far from great...
posted by Justin from ReadysetDC at 7/19/2006 07:35:00 PM
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