Home rule for me, but not for thee – Kevin Drum

Yeah, this. Carjacking is dangerous.

Also, I trawl the DC subreddit at times (well, it shows up in my mobile feed) because I live in the metro area and figure I should know what's going on. The general attitude there is that Bowser and the MPD are royally fucking up on not enforcing jack shit. One of the favorites is shaming cars that have thousands (sometimes tens of thousands) in unpaid tickets for illegal parking - with photos of the car parked on the sidewalk, or blocking an entire lane of traffic, etc. That's fairly benign, but when combined with policies like rapid release after arrest for certain gun crimes then the optics are very bad.

Also, Kevin didn't even get the carjacking stats correct. They've been going up for 5+ years now. "Carjackings in D.C. increased for a fifth straight year in 2022. There were 485 incidents reported to D.C. police, a 14% jump from 2021." https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/01/04/dc-carjackings-rise-for-fifth-straight-year

Look at that chart (carjacking tripled from 2019 to 2022). It sure looks like maybe lowering penalties for carjacking isn't what should be happening right now.

I think it's resurfaced in DC because DC has kind of just the right mix of concentration/traffic and side streets where it's easy to "get away" - it has a very connected grid.