Kennedy St NW shootings and crime 4eva

[Anonymous]

Can someone enlighten me why nothing ever seems to happen to reduce the shootings between about 1st and Georgia Ave. NW on Kennedy? Particularly 7th and Kennedy and 5th and Kennedy?

Last night while everyone was fixated on Connecticut Ave, there were three people shot on Kennedy and 7th: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/3-hurt-in-shooting-in-dcs-brightwood-neighborhood/3032691/

A brief list of the other crimes I can find links too; I know there are more:
Sept. 2021: 6 shot on 600 Block of Longfellow, 3 dead: https://wjla.com/news/local/5-injured-shooting-longfellow-street-northwest-dc-police
Sept. 2021: 1 shot on the 100 Block of Kennedy: https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-homicide-100-block-kennedy-street-northwest
June 2021: Armed robbery at 900 block of Kennedy: https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/suspects-sought-armed-robbery-gun-offense-900-block-kennedy-street-northwest
Mar. 2021: sexual assault of business owner on Kennedy St in broad daylight means she shuttered the business: https://www.popville.com/2021/03/cheesemonster-studio-closed-kennedy-street/
Nob. 2020: gunshots at 7th and Kennedy: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/washington-dc-shootings-brightwood-park-concerned-neighborhood/65-21d195ca-f1c8-41d0-9b50-5d2cc5088a91
Feb. 2019: 5th and Kennedy drive by: https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/5th-kennedy-shooting-video
(with the added result of the MPD Chief calling 5th and Kennedy "the most dangerous intersection in the 4th district": https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/5th-kennedy-violence)

Those orange-shirted violence interrupters were at 7th and Kennedy for a half second, but they've been gone, or at least not visible, for a few months now. The pizza place that was supposed to go in at 7th and Kennedy seems to have backed out after its windows got shot out multiple times.

I know it is warring "crews", but it seems worse than it used to be. Yeah, more services would help, better schooling, poverty reduction, etc. I know. But that doesn't do anything in the near term.

[Anonymous]

what about mass incarceration?

[Anonymous]

Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

ohhhhhkaaaaaaaaay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

So if I don't complain about crime, the shootings will stop? Ah yes, perfection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

The neighborhood crews might engage in casual drug dealing, but I don't think they make any kind of serious money at all and haven't in decades. Which is counter-intuitive, but there seems to have been a major shift. Like in the 80's/90's there were drug markets that supported a few king pins who became actually rich. I don't think anyone is getting rich from the neighborhood crews today. It's like only the violence is left.

[Anonymous]

Kennedy has been gentrifying for nearly 20 years. My friend was beat into a multi-day coma outside his rowhouse right off Kennedy over a decade ago in the middle of a weekday afternoon by multiple teens.

That street ain’t ever going to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

The neighborhood crews might engage in casual drug dealing, but I don't think they make any kind of serious money at all and haven't in decades. Which is counter-intuitive, but there seems to have been a major shift. Like in the 80's/90's there were drug markets that supported a few king pins who became actually rich. I don't think anyone is getting rich from the neighborhood crews today. It's like only the violence is left.

I feel like only a decade ago the guys on the corner would sell drugs, no one cared, and there weren't regular shootings. Now it seems like no drugs but just shootings.

Also, to the guy that had the friend get beaten into a multi-day coma: F*ck. That's horrible. I hadn't heard about that one.

[Anonymous]

I have no idea. I'm 40 and grew up in the neighborhood and it's been like this my entire life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

ohhhhhkaaaaaaaaay.

There's a brick and mortar smoke shop at 7th and Kennedy now too, but the "gift" kinda sucks. Gummies are good though.

[Anonymous]

I live in the neighborhood and have really enjoyed taking my kid to the new ice cream shop on Kennedy St. I thought things were calming down after the sexual assault caused the cheese shop to close but sadly I might not bring my kid around there anymore. Which is sad because those small businesses in that area are really lovely.

[Anonymous]

thanks for this topic. no answers. but glad someone on here actually cares about crime in other neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Entrenched generational poverty in preserved subsidized housing. That's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop buying your smoke from the local sellers and then complain about the crime. There's no crime around the smoke store in brookland.

The neighborhood crews might engage in casual drug dealing, but I don't think they make any kind of serious money at all and haven't in decades. Which is counter-intuitive, but there seems to have been a major shift. Like in the 80's/90's there were drug markets that supported a few king pins who became actually rich. I don't think anyone is getting rich from the neighborhood crews today. It's like only the violence is left.

I feel like only a decade ago the guys on the corner would sell drugs, no one cared, and there weren't regular shootings. Now it seems like no drugs but just shootings.

Also, to the guy that had the friend get beaten into a multi-day coma: F*ck. That's horrible. I hadn't heard about that one.

It's definitely still drugs and also shootings.

When we were house hunting in 2015 we went to see a house right near this part of Brightwood Park (just on Illinois) and my DH wouldn't even go in to look at it because there were like 8 adult men lounging outside the corner store. His attitude was all of these people should have jobs, and if they don't their chosen job is to destroy property values. I thought he was being extreme but now we live about 2 neighborhoods away where there are not adult men loitering on the sidewalk and the steady stream of shootings in BP has made me think he was on to something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kennedy has been gentrifying for nearly 20 years. My friend was beat into a multi-day coma outside his rowhouse right off Kennedy over a decade ago in the middle of a weekday afternoon by multiple teens.

That street ain’t ever going to change.

This suggests also that gentrification isn't solving the crime issue in this setting. I wonder what will happen to the abundance of new condos that are being built on Kennedy. Also, given those condos, I would expect the developers to care about the crime, even if no one else does.