General Counsel for Radio Free Asia stabbed to death in his home in Dupont Circle, DC

It's happening all over again. Same thing that happened a few years back when I launched my SafeStreetsDC campaign against Mayor Williams and the police department. They didn't fix most of the grievances we raised, and now the murders and other violent crimes are back with a vengeance.

But at least Police Chief Ramsey is getting a whopping 33% increase to his pension. After all, it's really hard to support a family on $175,000 a year.

And let me make one point before I let this go for now. When I got mugged, and throughout that year of taking on the police and the mayor for their abominable 911 emergency phone service, the ridiculous police overtimes (people making three times their salary in overtime), the uninvestigated crimes, the unsolved murders, the outrageous violent crime rate, and more, a number of city council members were at the forefront of helping our effort to make DC a safer city. Adrian Fenty joined Jim Graham, Phil Mendelson, and Kathy Patterson in the lead, taking on the mayor and the police chief at hearings, at public events, at community meetings, in private meetings with me and others.

But one DC city council member was missing in action the entire year of our SafeStreetsDC campaign. She never appeared at any of our events, we never got a meeting with her - hell, I never even got an email from her.

Her name is Linda Cropp.

And now she wants to be mayor.