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D.C. Marks 9 Days Without a Homicide After Trump Takeover: What are the odds of that? 0.98% Based on 2024 Data. 1.5% Based on 2025’s First Seven Months. The lives being saved are almost all black.

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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