WaPo skewers Mayor Bowser's ‘unclear’ crime policies after NFL player shot, DC crimes increase '89%'

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After the Sunday night carjacking and shooting of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr., who is currently hospitalized for his injuries, Washington Post reporters Emily Davies and Omari Daniels wrote a piece criticizing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's crime policies, especially after she vowed to disrupt criminal activity in the city.

The report noted that it is "unclear" how Bowser’s policy to cut crime in the district is working, considering that the high-profile NFL player was shot, and that "violent crime is up 89 percent" in parts of the city. 

Published Monday, the piece opened with Bowser’s explicit ambitions to stop crime in her city juxtaposed with the current state of crime in Washington, D.C. It read, "Two months after D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser launched a program to disrupt ‘patterns of violence’ at three city nightlife hubs, a Washington Commanders running back was shot and injured during an armed robbery on one of those thoroughfares."

Naming the NFL player and describing the grisly incident, the report noted, "Brian Robinson Jr., who was on track to earn a significant role in the upcoming season, was attacked in broad daylight Sunday in the heart of the H Street corridor, a 1½-mile stretch in Northeast Washington full of popular restaurants and bars."

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Mayor Muriel Bower was slammed by her city's own paper for not doing enough on DC's rising crime wave which almost claimed the life of Washington Commanders running back Brian Robinson Jr. on Sunday evening.