Violent crime in DC is a well-known fact, but these statistics are still staggering:
[O]n a per resident basis, blacks in the District face over double the homicide rate as blacks in the nation as a whole. There were 1.3 homicides per every 100,000 white D.C. residents in 2010, the same year that saw 37.7 homicides per every 100,000 black D.C. residents.
Elsewhere, Martin Austermuhle puts the brakes on the sensational tendencies in the Examiner's front-page story, "Violent crimes by teens soar in D.C.: Homicide, rape, assault up 10 percent."
The Dish 