Wizards and Caps could be moving to Potomac Yard
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Anonymous
It’s odd that DC can prevent crime when and where they choose to. I wonder how the rest of the city feels about being left out of the no crime district |
Anonymous
As someone who visits the Gallery Place area, I’ll still take it as a win. DC needs to get past the 2020 notion that “equity” means spreading and tolerating crime and disorder in all neighborhoods of the city. |
Anonymous
All that’s going to do is push most of that crap a few blocks further out. |
Anonymous
Maybe, but at some point, if it's far enough from the arena, there's no point in being there at all (for the amplified buskers or the pop-up vendors) -- they're there because there are crowds, not just because they like it. |
Anonymous
| I always knew this wouldn’t work and I’m glad they’re staying in DC |
Anonymous
Or dispersed to different parts of the city. Hopefully the Gallery Place Metro Station also cleans up, currently one of the least safe stations. |
Anonymous
Agree on them staying in DC. Let DC taxpayers keep subsidizing Ted while reaping little to no public benefit in return. VA doesn’t need the headache of a subsidized arena and a drama queen like Ted. It’s doing quite fine without those things and will do even better in the future. |
Anonymous
Yeah, basically the entire progressive l criminal justice reform movement that arose post George Floyd and 2020 essentially became about alternatives to incarceration which many criminal saw as free license to commit crime with impunity. I’m liberal, but I can’t stand how liberals handle violent crimes. It’s dangerous. They create a dangerous environment and everything gets worse. |
Anonymous
I think something else happened in 2020 to spike crime. It is more related to the social fallout from COVID. |
Anonymous
It is a "both/and". The progressive criminal justice reform pushed alternatives to incarceration at all costs in a post-George Floyd world. In the meantime, there was an entire cohort of kids in DC who were left to run wild for 2 years when the schools were closed. Many of those kids only had stability (and limited stability at that) and attention from competent adults when attending school. Now they are young teens, hopelessly behind in school, and anti-social because they missed critical elementary school years where the school is setting behavioral expectations. UMC parents on here complain about how school closures negatively impacted their kids' overall socialization---the impact on kids already at-risk was far worse. Young teens ---12 and 13 yo girls---were arrested today for beating a 64 yo man to death on Georgia Avenue earlier this year. This is "lord of the flies" type levels of feral behavior by young teens. But the progressive criminal justice crowd hasn't wrapped their minds about how what we really need are humane, highly structured juvenile detention centers where these under-socialized and violent young people can be civilized back into productive behavior. |
Anonymous
You will. And you will no doubt vote for all the city council members to. That's what Alexandrians do. Whine about the state of the city and then vote for the same people (or their clones) over and over again. No wonder the city is a joke in Richmond on both sides of the aisle. |
Anonymous
| It is such a bizarre complaint about the buskers and vendors. The vendors have licenses or else they are selling illegally. The buskers are great. It is how bands like the Junkyard Band got their start. Ted may not like it, but most of the fans coming to and from the arena, do. I base that on the money given the the musicians and the smiles on people's faces as they walk by, and their head bobbing to the beats on their way into the arena. |
Anonymous
Because, as the logic goes on this board, they could be worse if you vote in someone else. However, that's the sunk cost fallacy. You have so much invested in the existing councilors, that you are afraid to throw away the meager gains. See US government military spending for examples. |
Anonymous
I agree with you when it's evening and crowds are coming back and forth to the games. That's a busker environment. But the guy drumming all day/everyday on the 5 gallon buckets directly underneath your office window (which apparently is what was happening to Ted Leonsis) is annoying. Everyone I know who has worked in the office building across from Gallery Place also had the same complaint. And remember that Brianne Nadeau decriminalized all street vending which is now why it is a free for all. So yeah, I think Monumental has some legitimate gripes. |
Anonymous
Cops and USAO have been refusing to do their jobs for nearly 4-5 years. When they are forced to do their jobs - enforce laws, arrest criminals, charge criminals, and keep them in prison (especially violent or mentally ill) - crime magically falls and areas get nicer. Who would’ve thought that just doing their jobs would make the city safer? |