I'm tired of the complaint threads about crime in DC. Let's take action!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's ludicrous that we live in such a dangerous city AND 911 is dysfunctional AND the crime lab is dysfunctional. I hope people will call as many of these folks as you can tomorrow and just let it rip!

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

As recently as 2009, the rate of adult illiteracy in D.C. was 36% overall. In some Wards, including Ward 8, the rate was well over 40%.

Gentrification helped lower that rate, by pushing the illiterate people out of DC and into PG and other parts of MD.

D.C. has a long history of being dysfunctional. You will not want to hear this (and resist accepting the reality) but it all began with home-rule.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC residents pool your resources, hire private security firms to patrol your neighborhoods, reach out to 60 minutes and other media entities to highlight the drastic measures needed to safely walk your streets at night. Embarrass the politicians into doing something. Won’t solve all the problems but it is a start. [/quote]

I am thinking about this. Is there a mechanism to declare neighborhoods private with a guard house at the entry? I'm being serious. if there isn't there isn't, and default to neighborhood watch and the reach out you mention? [/quote]

Entry to neighborhoods? Tell us you don't live here without telling us you don't live here.[/quote]

NP, but I remember when crime in Trinidad was so bad that there were police checking IDs at the few entrance points in the neighborhood. [/quote]

Streets are in a grid. What are "entrance points" that would stop everyone from getting there? These aren't planned neighborhoods with one road in and out.[/quote]

The police completely set up checkpoints. Trinidad was having a wave. It affected the community, and there was a big shooting at one of their street fests as I recall. The neighborhood was happy to have this. Well, except the criminals trying to come in and out to beef etc.[/quote]

That would work for a few neighborhoods like Trinidad, sort of. But most neighborhoods have hundreds of streets going in and out. You're definitely not in DC.[/quote]

And yet I remember all this... hmmm...

I am leaning toward random checkpoints throughout the city. The crime is everywhere, the cars are ALWAYS boosted, and it would be a way to stop criminals on their way to or from a crime spree. Rather than worry about where I'm from because I literally have no way to prove to you I'm from DC , what do you think about checkpoints?[/quote]

The ones in Trinidad were ruled to be unconstitutional. So no, I don't support unconditional searches.[/quote]
It was unconstitutional because they would only allow residents who could verify that they lived in the neighborhood enter.

It would not be illegal to have systematic road block and Terry Stops around a neighborhood to promote safety, subject to limited constitutional restrictions, ie road blocks need to allow people opportunity to turn around. [/quote]
What was unconstitutional then is probably fine now. Different court, different interpretation of the constitution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's ludicrous that we live in such a dangerous city AND 911 is dysfunctional AND the crime lab is dysfunctional. I hope people will call as many of these folks as you can tomorrow and just let it rip!

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

As recently as 2009, the rate of adult illiteracy in D.C. was 36% overall. In some Wards, including Ward 8, the rate was well over 40%.

Gentrification helped lower that rate, by pushing the illiterate people out of DC and into PG and other parts of MD.

D.C. has a long history of being dysfunctional. You will not want to hear this (and resist accepting the reality) but it all began with home-rule.

I was born right here in DC and have long been opposed to statehood. I am just fine with Congress stepping in when things get wacky. By the way, where are they? STEP IN!

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC residents pool your resources, hire private security firms to patrol your neighborhoods, reach out to 60 minutes and other media entities to highlight the drastic measures needed to safely walk your streets at night. Embarrass the politicians into doing something. Won’t solve all the problems but it is a start. [/quote]

I am thinking about this. Is there a mechanism to declare neighborhoods private with a guard house at the entry? I'm being serious. if there isn't there isn't, and default to neighborhood watch and the reach out you mention? [/quote]

Entry to neighborhoods? Tell us you don't live here without telling us you don't live here.[/quote]

NP, but I remember when crime in Trinidad was so bad that there were police checking IDs at the few entrance points in the neighborhood. [/quote]

Streets are in a grid. What are "entrance points" that would stop everyone from getting there? These aren't planned neighborhoods with one road in and out.[/quote]

The police completely set up checkpoints. Trinidad was having a wave. It affected the community, and there was a big shooting at one of their street fests as I recall. The neighborhood was happy to have this. Well, except the criminals trying to come in and out to beef etc.[/quote]

That would work for a few neighborhoods like Trinidad, sort of. But most neighborhoods have hundreds of streets going in and out. You're definitely not in DC.[/quote]

And yet I remember all this... hmmm...

I am leaning toward random checkpoints throughout the city. The crime is everywhere, the cars are ALWAYS boosted, and it would be a way to stop criminals on their way to or from a crime spree. Rather than worry about where I'm from because I literally have no way to prove to you I'm from DC , what do you think about checkpoints?[/quote]

The ones in Trinidad were ruled to be unconstitutional. So no, I don't support unconditional searches.[/quote]
It was unconstitutional because they would only allow residents who could verify that they lived in the neighborhood enter.

It would not be illegal to have systematic road block and Terry Stops around a neighborhood to promote safety, subject to limited constitutional restrictions, ie road blocks need to allow people opportunity to turn around. [/quote]
What was unconstitutional then is probably fine now. Different court, different interpretation of the constitution.[/quote]

I think it is the only way to slow the roll of the jackers, since police won't / aren't allowed to pursue. I mean, we are kind of out of options.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because the "real" election in DC are the primaries, during which basically only a handful of radical left-wing activists show up to elect their favorite radical left-wing clowns. The system itself is rigged against a moderate candidate.

In the 80s, DC elected a Republican to Council named Carol Schwartz. It can be done. Demographics are more in your favor now than they were then. She was very good. As I recall, she did a lot to help the Whitman Walker clinic and education. She was very good, and I think she may now be retired to Rehoboth Beach, as I see her there often. People interested in running from NW should look her up, read about her, maybe even pick her brain.

I bet she's not a Republican anymore.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC residents pool your resources, hire private security firms to patrol your neighborhoods, reach out to 60 minutes and other media entities to highlight the drastic measures needed to safely walk your streets at night. Embarrass the politicians into doing something. Won’t solve all the problems but it is a start. [/quote]

I am thinking about this. Is there a mechanism to declare neighborhoods private with a guard house at the entry? I'm being serious. if there isn't there isn't, and default to neighborhood watch and the reach out you mention? [/quote]

Entry to neighborhoods? Tell us you don't live here without telling us you don't live here.[/quote]

NP, but I remember when crime in Trinidad was so bad that there were police checking IDs at the few entrance points in the neighborhood. [/quote]

Streets are in a grid. What are "entrance points" that would stop everyone from getting there? These aren't planned neighborhoods with one road in and out.[/quote]

The police completely set up checkpoints. Trinidad was having a wave. It affected the community, and there was a big shooting at one of their street fests as I recall. The neighborhood was happy to have this. Well, except the criminals trying to come in and out to beef etc.[/quote]

That would work for a few neighborhoods like Trinidad, sort of. But most neighborhoods have hundreds of streets going in and out. You're definitely not in DC.[/quote]

And yet I remember all this... hmmm...

I am leaning toward random checkpoints throughout the city. The crime is everywhere, the cars are ALWAYS boosted, and it would be a way to stop criminals on their way to or from a crime spree. Rather than worry about where I'm from because I literally have no way to prove to you I'm from DC , what do you think about checkpoints?[/quote]

The ones in Trinidad were ruled to be unconstitutional. So no, I don't support unconditional searches.[/quote]
It was unconstitutional because they would only allow residents who could verify that they lived in the neighborhood enter.

It would not be illegal to have systematic road block and Terry Stops around a neighborhood to promote safety, subject to limited constitutional restrictions, ie road blocks need to allow people opportunity to turn around. [/quote]
What was unconstitutional then is probably fine now. Different court, different interpretation of the constitution.[/quote]

I think it is the only way to slow the roll of the jackers, since police won't / aren't allowed to pursue. I mean, we are kind of out of options.[/quote]


There are areas in DC that employ their own armed security forces.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Support this ballot initiative which would allow D.C.'s 80,000 independent voters to vote in Democratic primaries.

makeallvotescountdc.org

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote out Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau and Janeese Lewis-George. They are the problem.

I would argue Allen, Nadeau and Lewis-George are not the problem actually. They're just really good at representing the preferences of their own constituents, as you would expect of any good politician. Unfortunately the hard truth is that many DC voters are either super pro self-flagellation or pro-crime, or both.

Lewis-George does not represent her constituency in any way. I live in Ward 4 and we despise her. The problem was that she ran against Brandon Todd who was an actual idiot. I didn't think she would be this bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote out Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau and Janeese Lewis-George. They are the problem.

I would argue Allen, Nadeau and Lewis-George are not the problem actually. They're just really good at representing the preferences of their own constituents, as you would expect of any good politician. Unfortunately the hard truth is that many DC voters are either super pro self-flagellation or pro-crime, or both.

Lewis-George does not represent her constituency in any way. I live in Ward 4 and we despise her. The problem was that she ran against Brandon Todd who was an actual idiot. I didn't think she would be this bad.

Also in Ward 4 and agree.

[Anonymous]

It was bad in the early 90s, and then the city voted Tony Williams in. He was practical and smart. We need to vote out people on the council and ANCs who pretend crime is not an issue. Need Tony Williams 2.0

[Anonymous]

Scoop: D.C. mayor to unveil new tough-on-crime package

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/10/23/dc-crime-police-reform-muriel-bowser

[Anonymous]

Welfare reform - start enforcing the time limits like almost every state does

Stop building luxury high rises in neighborhoods where the existing residents couldn’t afford the rent. Instead build smaller buildings that existing residents could afford with a small stretch

Mandatory reading and math tutoring for high school students to ensure that students graduate high school being able to read and do basic math. Also provide dyslexia screening in all schools at regular intervals.

[Anonymous]

Y’all just trying to restart the school-to-prison pipeline for Black kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all just trying to restart the school-to-prison pipeline for Black kids.

"Y'all" (you) are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote out Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau and Janeese Lewis-George. They are the problem.

I would argue Allen, Nadeau and Lewis-George are not the problem actually. They're just really good at representing the preferences of their own constituents, as you would expect of any good politician. Unfortunately the hard truth is that many DC voters are either super pro self-flagellation or pro-crime, or both.

Lewis-George does not represent her constituency in any way. I live in Ward 4 and we despise her. The problem was that she ran against Brandon Todd who was an actual idiot. I didn't think she would be this bad.

She is well to the left of Bernie Sanders. That's not where Ward 4 is.