MetaFilter posts tagged with DC and crime

"...a liberal who's been mugged..."

neroli — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:28:46 -0800

A discussion about "white fear" and "black crime" Late one night last summer, on 17th and Euclid in Washington, DC, white liberal blogger Brian Beutler was shot three times by a young black man who asked him to hand over his cell phone. (He's fine now, mostly, although he doesn't have a spleen anymore.) Subsequent discussions on various blogs focused on gun control, crime, and gentrification in DC. In a post shortly after the event, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote: For the first time in my life, I have some sense of what the white guy who is ignorant of all things about black people is thinking when he drives through certain parts of town and rolls up his window. Today, Coates and Beutler chatted on Bloggingheads.

I still say it's basically the A-Team

Artw — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:57:52 -0800

The Losers Cover Gallery showcases the bold design sense and unique art style of UK comics artist Jock, who also produced much of the interior art for the VERTIGO series. Losely based on a WWII comic of the same name it became a fast paced action caper with a political edge under writer Andy Diggle, and the covers reflect both the themes and the cinematic style of the comic.

Murder

stammer — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 06:31:17 -0800

Murders in Baltimore City/Washington D.C., displayed on Google's map of the area: 2005, 2006, 2007.

As Man Lay Dying, Witnesses Turned Away

owillis — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 05:15:17 -0800

As Man Lay Dying, Witnesses Turned Away "D.C. police released a startling surveillance tape yesterday that shows a daylight killing at a Northeast Washington gas station and witnesses doing nothing to report the crime or tend to the victim as he lay bleeding on the concrete." Is this just a product of D.C.'s crime and chaos or signficant of a more callous nation?

GriffX — Tue, 02 Apr 2002 15:50:51 -0800

A good New Yorker piece on George Pelecanos, who is my favorite crime author not just for his skills, but because he sets his novels in D.C.