Sports: the Latest Victim of DC’s Crime Wave
13th December 2023
The announcement this morning by owner Ted Leonsis that Washington, DC is losing the Washington Capitals and Wizards franchises to Virginia is the ultimate indictment of incompetent Mayor Muriel Bowser and corrupt Democrats on the city council who let crime take over the nation’s capital.
To say DC has a rampant crime problem is an understatement. You may already have heard about the incredible rise in carjacking, which more than doubled year over year – with juvenile offenders accounting for the vast majority of arrests. All crime is up by almost a third, violent crime is up almost 40 percent and total homicides passed 200 in September, earlier in the year than it has since 1997.
The imagery of an Uber Eats driver’s violent death in a crash as a thirteen-year-old girl tries to steal his car in broad daylight while wielding a stun gun is not the sort of image any city wants for itself. But the response from Bowser has consistently amounted to leaning into “woke” racial politics, more interested in defending her Black Lives Matter Plaza than solving the problems that saw DC hemorrhage residents over the past several years.