via NYPOST:
The capital of the most powerful and prosperous country to ever grace Earth is an unpleasant — even unlivable — place to call home.
Over the past decade, Washington, DC, has transformed from a beautiful, bustling and vibrant metropolis into a city that often feels like a ripoff of Batman’s Gotham.
Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.
In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders.
This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256.
All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board.
via insider
Maui residents are becoming increasingly desperate for local leadership to take control of the emergency response to the catastrophic fires that leveled parts of the Hawaiian island and left at least 93 dead.
While rescue crews make their way across the island with water, food, and first aid, locals told Insider supply drops are being rerouted and anguished residents are taking matters into their own hands.
“There’s some police presence. There’s some small military presence, but at night people are being robbed at gunpoint,” Matt Robb, co-owner of a Lāhainā bar called The Dirty Monkey, told Insider. “People are raped and pillaged. I mean, they’re going through houses — and then by day it’s hunky dory. So where is the support? I don’t think our government and our leaders, at this point, know how to handle this or what to do.”
The Honolulu Star Register reported a near riot broke out between police and about 100 residents after officers closed off access to a highway leading to Lāhainā, one of the most impacted areas on the island, preventing people from returning home to gather items that could be salvaged.
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