By the afternoon of Friday, August 22, news reports showed that Washington, D.C. had gone nearly ten days without a homicide. Assuming that there were no homicides for the rest of yesterday, and we can find no record of that, there would have been ten days without a homicide in D.C. But since we are […]
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