Opinion: Restore America’s crime-plagued capital

Early on a Sunday morning, shots ring out on the 1300 block of Connecticut Avenue —  steps away from Dupont Circle, a New York Sports Club, and the city’s only Brooks Brothers.

A Canada Goose coat robbery on the Metro train , a point-blank afternoon murder at Union Station , a Dupont Circle stabbing in broad daylight and a knife-brandishing hooligan terrorizing grocery clerks at Safeway — all these have taken place since the turn of the new year.

It’s lawlessness as usual in the District of Columbia…

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