{"id":1942,"date":"2020-09-02T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:16:12","slug":"murders-surge-in-dc-city-leaders-point-to-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1942","title":{"rendered":"Murders Surge in DC; City Leaders Point to the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Washington, DC, and New York, among some other major cities, murder has spiked this year.\u00a0 Thus, as the Crime Report<\/a> tells us in this story from mid-August:<\/p>\n

A weekend mass shooting that wounded 21 and killed one signaled a 45 percent increase in shootings in Washington, D.C., this year over the same period last year, including 46 shootings in the past week,\u00a0the Washington Post reports<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But fear not.\u00a0 Washington’s leadership has an idea.The answer, you see, is to remove (or relocate or “contextualize,” whatever that means) the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial.<\/p>\n

That would be for starters.\u00a0 Other monuments fingered for the dust bin, in one way or another, would be those honoring Benjamin Franklin, George Mason and Alexander Graham Bell.\u00a0 Here’s the start of yesterday’s NBC affiliate story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More than 150 monuments, buildings and parks in D.C. have now been recommended for name changes, contextualization or removal because the historic figure they are named for is either considered a racist or doesn\u2019t reflect the values of D.C. residents….<\/p>\n

Twenty-one public schools are on the list, as well as 12 parks and recreation centers and seven government buildings.<\/p>\n

Other names on the list with buildings or monuments include:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n