Three police officers were shot:

Children at a nearby school had to be escorted into the building by police to begin their day:

Climate activists vandalized the case holding the Constitution at the National Archives:

Just across the Potomac in Arlington, Va., someone stole a FedEx truck off the street in broad daylight:
Two armed men robbed someone just outside the city’s main arena. They were about a block away from the National Portrait Gallery on one side and the federal courthouse on the other side:

Three people were found shot dead in an apartment:

Three more people were shot on the street:

Again, all of that happened yesterday.

This proliferation of crime is not happening in most other American cities. This is a local problem with a local solution: more police, more arrests, and more prosecutions.