Mayor Vincent Gray: D.c. Is No Longer Nation's Murder Capital

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 1:33pm

WASHINGTON -- The mayor of the District of Columbia has declared that the days of the nation's capital being the nation's murder capital are long since over. In a press conference on Friday afternoon, Mayor Vincent Gray, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice Paul Quander and Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier unveiled a plan to improve police service in the city and announced the lowest number of reported homicides in nearly half a century."While a single murder is one too many, this figure shows our city is on the right track," Gray said in a statement released by his office.

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