BANANA REPUBLIC CRIME REPORT – Success of Defund the Police Agenda Blooms All Over the Nation’s Capital

FROM WASHINGTON FREE BEACON: AUGUST 9, 2023 -Washington, D.C.’s city council in the summer of 2020 voted to slash millions from the police budget. Now, as homicides surge in the nation’s capital, liberal council members want more cops. After D.C. saw 13 homicides in just the first five days of August, left-wing council members Brianne Nadeau and Phil Mendelson touted their efforts to secure more resources for police, with Nadeau especially stressing the city’s “hot spots.” Those efforts mark a stark turnaround for the council members, both of whom voted to cut $15 million from the city’s police budget at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020. Nadeau at the time endorsed “calls to defund MPD” and “get police out of schools,” while Mendelson praised a 2021 police reform report that lamented D.C.’s “harmful over-reliance on policing and incarceration” and called for a “realignment and reduction of MPD’s size, responsibilities, and budget.”

BALTIMORE — From WBAL in 2021: A budget proposal with more than $22 million in cuts to the Baltimore Police Department is now on the way to the mayor. City Council members went through the budget line by line Monday, deciding what they felt should be kept and what could be cut. The meeting comes as protesters nationwide, and in Baltimore, call for less funding for police.

DC MAYHEM -THREE TEENS CHARGED IN ARMED CARJACKING ON M STREET NW at MOUNT VERNON SQUARE

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Third District announce the arrest of three suspects for an armed carjacking that took place in Mount Vernon Square.

On March 28, 2024, at 11:38 p.m., Third District officers responded to the 600 block of M Street, Northwest, for the report of an armed carjacking. Officers learned that one of the suspects walked up to the driver’s side window, pointed a firearm, and demanded the victim to exit the vehicle. The victim complied, and all three suspects fled the scene with the vehicle. Third District Officers canvassed the area, along with MPD’s helicopter. All three suspects were located and arrested. A gun was recovered on the scene.

On Thursday, March 28, 2024, a 15-year-old juvenile male from Northeast, DC, a 17-year-old juvenile male, and a 16-year-old juvenile male, both from Northwest, DC, were charged with Armed Carjacking.

Khalill Boyd Busted for Armed Carjacking

Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Carjacking Task Force announced an arrest in an Armed Carjacking offense that occurred in the Sixth District.

At approximately 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in the 300 block of Anacostia Road, Southeast, the suspect confronted a victim with a handgun while demanding their keys. The victim complied and the suspect attempted to flee. Responding officers stopped the suspect and took him into custody.

19-year-old Khalill Boyd of Southeast, DC, was arrested and charged with Armed Carjacking. The District Police were assisted by the Prince George’s County Police Department.