Safety in the Braddock Metro Area

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Anonymous wrote:That area is not safe nor is the West End near Van Dorn. We sold because of crime and schools even though we love our neighborhood.

I’m trying to post links for you but for some odd reason this site is not allowing me to link. Just Google “Braddock metro crime”. You’ll get links to a news site some people disparage (and for good reason) but you can at least see what’s happening.

APD’s response to the crime in that and other areas has been to install cameras and have community picnics with cops.

Just last week in my neighborhood there was a shooting that injured two teens, with bullets entering homes nearby in addition to whatever their target was. It wasn’t even late—8:20. My son and I were walking in the neighborhood when it happened. I could have very easily been walking there as it is one of our regular routes.

Justin Wilson frequents the new Potomac metro and tweets about it, so that’s probably safe. Maybe look there (but you’ll contend with airplane and train noise all day).

In all honesty, the City is doing nothing to address crime in the City and the School Board is doing nothing to address crime in the schools, which spills over into the surrounding neighborhoods. It is a beautiful city but unless you can afford to live in one of the more expensive, leafy, large home neighborhoods that aren’t near multi family housing, I wouldn’t suggest it to anyone.

+1. The source of Alexandria’s problems is the presence of outdated multi-family housing that attracts poor people that frankly don’t care to better their situation. Gentrification needs to ramp up.

LOL. You don’t know anything about Alexandria. As long as the City Council is elected at large, they will maintain the current level of low-income housing. That’s their electoral base.

If council was by district, which it should be, most would be purged. Aguire, Chapman and now McPike live off of identity politics and coalitions.

At least Wilson shows up to everything and sends a canned response to emails.

Is identify politics and "coalitions" your code words for minorities or just positions you don't like. This is getting damn close to shifting from thinly veiled racism to explicit racism. I guess you get a pass because you included one non-minority in the list of council members you hate. Sorry those who agree with you can't win an election.

No. Gaskins (who is female, black, and a Democrat) actually answers her email and shows up to stuff.

Aguire doesn’t do anything. Chapman is Alfred St Baptist’s seat. McPike was CoS for one of the least effective members of Congress and nothing has changed.

All three would lose immediately where they live, because they don’t answer to the people, and can live off just existing. That’s what identity politics is, and why that’s all you’re ever going to get.

Jackson and Bagely don’t have a natural coalition like those three, but would probably adapt to whatever corner of Alexandria they live. Assuming it’s not the same.

Wilson would probably lose if he was only in a single district (Del Ray) but that’s not the proposition.

Done gaslighting and race/identity baiting?

[Anonymous]

Reviving this thread from 2023 as I’m thinking of moving to the area south of the Braddock metro. It feels completely safe during the day, but I haven’t spend much time there at night. If you live in that area, especially any single women, do you feel safe walking home from the metro or King street at night?

[Anonymous]

I’ve lived there a long time and have personally never had any issues. I’m past the point of being out super late at night, but I feel ok walking home alone at 10 or 11pm. My kids walk to school. I mean, I don’t walk through the public housing, and if there’s a bunch of people loitering in a way that feels off I might cross the street, but I can count on one hand the number of times that’s happened in 15 years of living here.
There is violence sometimes, and it tends to come in waves when it happens so I understand why it freaks some people out.

[Anonymous]

I lived there from 2018-2023 and always felt safe. Have common sense and avoid suspicious looking groups, but I never had any issues. It's a great area and super convenient. From the development happening there it's only getting better.

[Anonymous]

Yes, generally. I have seen a few strange incidents near the post office on Wythe, but have never had any issues personally.

[Anonymous]

A lady got shot while walking her dog over there last year. https://www.alxnow.com/2022/09/20/details-emerge-after-woman-shot-in-foot-in-braddock-area/

The Braddock area is where many of the repeat gang shootings have occurred the last few years. I encourage OP to look up the crime concentration on a heat map before making any decisions.

[Anonymous]

I drove through a shooting over there on my way back from dinner on a Wednesday night about a month ago, at 8:30pm. Super fun.