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Article: Violence Part of Life On District's Border With Prince George's
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 6, 2005
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Liquor stores. Seafood joints. People hanging out on the streets.
For several blocks in either direction, it's hard to tell whether
you're in the city or the county.
"Now we're in Prince George's," says Capt. Kevin Davis of the
county police as he drives over Southern Avenue in Capitol Heights on
a recent night. "And now we're in D.C."
The traffic lights are the clue, he says. In Prince George's, they
hang from cables at intersections. In the District, they are fixed to
street posts.
But Davis says the criminals know exactly where the border is, and
they know how to work it. The corridor has become the most dangerous
stretch in the region, the scene of the majority of the 86 killings
in ...