Columbia Heights Shootings Cause Alarm – washingtonpost.com

Columbia Heights Shootings Cause Alarm – washingtonpost.com

The Columbia Heights police were pulled off to the South East mass causality incident. This is distressing to note that it was only a month or two ago, at the Town hall meeting for Columbia Heights at the Lincoln Theater, it was impressed upon on us that the MPD was looking for ways to work smarter, not necessarily increasing their rosters.

This weekend set of drive-by murders, however puts their efforts into serious concern. We have been very lucky to see an increase of police presence these past couple of weeks on 14th street. However, the SE incident had some of PSA 304 officers called over, presumably to take statements from eye witness accounts and maintain some order in what would be considered a large crime scene.

In the absence of the current police presence, some murdering scumbags managed to kill a 13 year old child at the park at 14th and Girard St, NW. at approximately 9:00pm, within a block of a school and community center.

Councilmember Jim Graham has commented that he was disturbed to find out there would have been police car with in that vicinity had they not been called off to South East. Let’s just see if he was disturbed enough to motivation some legislative action.

A strong police presence is critical in this area. And, we need road level cameras. If we can not deter murders from taking pot shots at innocent lives, at least we work to make sure they don’t get away. It’s time for tougher sentencing for violent crime and re-examination of juvenile penalties. And, no one should be allowed at that park after dark.