yidnar
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its still one of the most violent crime ridden cities in the US ..Murder has consistently fallen since peaking in late 2023 and is tracking the city’s pre-COVID trend so far in 2025.
Carjackings in DC had an enormous surge in 2023 but have fallen consistently since then to levels consistent with the start of the pandemic (and are still falling). Yet carjackings are more frequent now than they were before COVID.
Measuring DC’s overall violent crime trend is a bit more complicated. Violent crime in DC is down a huge amount from where it was in the early 1990s and down a good bit from where it was a decade ago. Violent crime in DC fell in 2024 after increasing in 2023, that much is clear from DC’s reporting to the FBI. The exact picture for 2025 is a bit murkier though violent crime is likely falling this year. DC’s open data is likely overstating the degree of the city’s decline in violent crime right now though
