INTERVIEW — PETER HERMANN – Crime reporter for The Washington Post. Hermann has been covering crime, specifically the D.C. police department

• D.C. Homicide rate – why is it so high? 6 murders in 3 days brings DC close to surpassing 2017’s homicide count. WASHINGTON – Over the course of three days, six people were killed in the District, including four in Southeast D.C., bringing the number of homicides for 2018 to 115, just one murder shy of last year’s 116. Adding this weekend’s murders to DC Police statistics, homicides are up year-to-date by 40 percent over last year.