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dan@ids2.idsonline.com wrote:
> 
> LUTYENS wrote:
> >
> > Last Friday about 10:30pm, there was a fracas at the main entrance to
> > Union Station - something between a gang war and a riot. At the outset,
> > the two or three security guards who responded were easily overpowered;
> > one barely managed to call for back-ups.  About two dozen participants
> > were arrested and carted off by the time it was done; many others escaped.
> >
> >
> > For some reason, there was no mention in the local media.  Is this just
> > too usual an occurrence?
> 
> I hope it's not usual!
> 
> Perhaps I am reading too much into this, but is there any connection to the
> non-reporting of the shotgun robbers in upper NW (two young black guys, one
> skinny, one tall, was all I heard on TV about descriptions)?  It sometimes
> seems to me that certain categories of crime are deliberately non-reported
> (by the media, OR the police).
> 
> Is there any local DC crime reporting on the Net to which we can turn for
> accurate information?
> 
>                        Dan

Dan, I think that it's absolutely time for us to do a newgroup.

dc.crimes

Charter should be, reporting of crimes, reporting of unusual events,
local disturbances, threatening personal experiences, etc., in the
District proper and all contiguous/coterminous counties in both Maryland
and Virginia.

It's clear that there's a lot that's not making it onto the news, and
that needs to be known. Let's create a new group dedicated to letting
the public be sure it's notified, and not have to depend on
increasingly-slanted and untrustworthy media.

Also, I propose a newgroup for dc.reports, same coverage area, more
dedicated to the merely unusual, noteworthy or peculiar.


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