New York Times reporter murdered by thugs in DC

This is your nation's capital. A crime-ridden cesspool.

Yes, DC has improved loads over the past decade, but not in the area of crime. We are consistently at the bottom of the barrel, nationwide, in our violent crime statistics, and just a few years ago we became the murder capital of the US again. I know, because after I was violently mugged a few years back (some kids jumped me and tried to strangle me to death on a busy corner across the street from my apartment at 8pm on a weekday, and never even went for my wallet), and the reaction from the cops was little more than a collective yawn. I launched a citywide crime awareness campaign that got a lot of attention, caused a big scandal (when we, among other things, found out that DC's dial-911 emergency phone system was killing people, and the mayor and police chief (who was in charge of it) of course denied it) and we nearly brought down the police chief as result.

Funny thing is, nothing has changed since that time. Same excuses from the police, same horror stories from the citizens.

The problem? We have a mayor who cares more about baseball than crime, and we have a police chief who likes to tell us it's hard work keeping a big city safe. Yeah, we know it's hard work, but why does most every other city in the nation always do better than us, even when their inner-city and socio-economic problems are just as bad if not worse than ours?

It's sad, and its pitiful. But it's only a matter of time before all the fools who bought half a million dollar condos in horrible parts of the city start to realize that just because half your block is rich yuppies doesn't make it safe to walk around at night and doesn't stop people from getting murdered on your corner - in fact, you're quite tempting targets. When that happens, the mayor and the chief are in for a rude awakening, as are the fools who spent that much money on condos in the middle of a ghetto.