{"id":99523,"date":"2018-10-25T12:46:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=99523"},"modified":"2018-10-25T12:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T21:20:27","slug":"dc-gun-confiscation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dc-gun-confiscation\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_99524\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dc.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99524\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-99524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dc-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dc-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dc-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/dc.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DC&#8217;s aggressive weapons confiscation hasn&#8217;t done much to reduce homicides. (<em>Photo: WAMU Youtube Screensho<\/em>t)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Few police departments are better at confiscating illegal guns than Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Department, according to a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/10\/24\/659980871\/d-c-s-aggressive-confiscation-of-illegal-guns-leaves-residents-feeling-targeted\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>. But that aggressive gun-confiscation policy hasn\u2019t done anything to curb the ballooning homicide rate in the nation\u2019s capital, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/page\/district-crime-data-glance\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">risen over 40 percent<\/a> since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Every American police department encourages its officers to be on the lookout for illegal guns, but D.C. has instituted a program that tasks teams of officers in unmarked cars to scour the streets in search of people who might be carrying illegal firearms.<\/p>\n<p>D.C. officers frequently stop pedestrians and pull cars over when they observe an individual looking nervous when they drive past. They\u2019ve also stopped and searched people for crossing the street, running away, wearing heavy coats in warm weather, or holding their pants in a certain way while walking, according to NRP.<\/p>\n<p>The practice has become so ubiquitous that residents have started calling officers who look for people carrying illegal weapons the \u201cjump-outs.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/los-angeles-county-touts-success-of-confiscation-squads\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" rel=\"bookmark\">Los Angeles County Touts Success of Confiscation Squads<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWe are out here to get illegal guns. It&#8217;s not to violate anyone&#8217;s rights or have a community uproar. That&#8217;s not our intent,\u201d Assistant D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee told the news service. \u201cWhat I know is that that firearm that&#8217;s been recovered off that street, it won&#8217;t take the life of somebody out here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In terms of gun confiscation, the policy has been successful. D.C. police confiscated 1,870 guns in 2016, more than five times as many illegal guns per capita as did the New York City Police Department, and nearly twice that of the Los Angeles Police,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/node\/1297881\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to police data<\/a>. In 2017, they confiscated even more\u20142,191.<\/p>\n<p>So, do fewer guns \u201con the street\u201d result in less crime? Not so much. While the homicide rate dropped between 2015 and 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/page\/district-crime-data-glance\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">so far this year<\/a> there have been more homicides than the entirety of last year and the same number as in 2016 (135). That number is driven largely by firearm-related crime, which accounted for <a href=\"https:\/\/mpdc.dc.gov\/node\/1297881\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">77 percent of homicides<\/a> in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Gun crime, not surprisingly, is driven more by the people who pull the trigger. This is evidenced by the ineffectiveness of D.C.\u2019s gun confiscation policy as well as the effectiveness of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/new-programs-focus-identification-intervention-reduce-firearm-related-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dc-gun-confiscation\" title=\"DC Homicide Rates Rise Despite Aggressive Gun Confiscation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">programs<\/a> that target the small percentage of individuals who are responsible for much of the gun-related crime in any particular city.<\/p>\n<p>These programs have proven to be remarkably effective at reducing gun-related violence rates in the most dangerous American cities, and their success is due largely to their emphasis on the people who commit crime rather than the tools they choose to use.<\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few police departments are better at confiscating illegal guns than Washington, D.C.&#8217;s Metropolitan Police Department, according to a new report from NPR. 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