D.C.'s Warm Temperatures Bring The Community Together Against Crime

D.C.’s Warm Temperatures Bring The Community Together Against Crime

Press conference about the one year anniversary for Relisha Rudd's disappearance

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WASHINGTON — Warmer weather brings the nation’s capital the promises of cherry blossoms, longer days and rising crime.

In the warm weather months, D.C. police beef up patrols in high crime areas in a bid to control not just violent crime, but also robberies that plague the city.

“They have found guns down here … they found several guns. We got guns and drugs being sold. My concern is that somebody’s kid, somebody’s family member might get caught up in gunfire,” Davis says.

“There was a shooting this afternoon, right up on 6th Street … there are too many guns … I heard the gunshots and there were multiple gunshots and I’m in the privacy of my home and I can hear them,” says Corlis Green, 62.

“I’d like to say that we’re going to have a summer where we have less crime, but I know in order for that to happen there’s going to have to be preventive measures. There’s got to be aggressive community efforts both by MPD and by residents … to see that we’re addressing mental health issues, substance abuse issues, employment issues,” says Ward 8 D.C. Councilmember LaRuby May, who joined her constituents strolling the neighborhood on one of the first warm evenings of the year.

source: WTOP.com