Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?

[Anonymous]

I’m a 48 year Moco resident while there has always been some crime, there is more now. There have always been homicide, in fact the ER at shady grove hospital is named after a guy killed at a bar fight at Jj Muldouns. Yes the population has increased so per capita murders probably aren’t any higher. But you see people panhandling everywhere even at grocery stores. Intersections, etc

[Anonymous]

Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down.

[Anonymous]

I'm a 51 year MoCo resident. What I see is more blatant disregard for the rules of society as a whole. The people that are supposed to enforce the rules are now being instructed not to. The criminals don't get punished so they push the boundary further to see what else they can get away with.

I don't see much panhandling in my area but I'm sure it exists. This is an expensive area to live in. Not everyone can get a W2 job. But you still have to house and feed your family.

Our county proports to help immigrants. But they really don't. The social services are not enough to support the number of people that are coming in and looking for help. Help is then pushed to the front lines which is usually the schools. Then parents get frustrated that school resources are being diverted from educational purposes.

[Anonymous]

Also Mcps used to be the envy of the nation. Now it’s average at best and in 15 years it will be terrible

[Anonymous]

„Früher war sogar die Zukunft besser.“

https://twitter.com/LiteraryVienna/status/1636416161830305792

[Anonymous]

Yes and we are planning on leaving the area in 6 months.

[Anonymous]

I have lived here since 1981 and its be worse than today. 14th Street was full of hookers and my car was broken into many times in Adams Morgan. At least twice a week a helicopter with a spot light would circle the neighborhood at night. The wokeness in the past few years contributed to the current demise and people are more brazen than the 80's and early 90's

[Anonymous]

Even within the last 10 years there is decline. There's just more trash everywhere now in MoCo. Parking lots full of unlicensed food vending trucks selling coconuts, sugar cane, or god knows what and throwing trash and debris everywhere. Crimes constantly around metro stations. Roads going to hell. Schools going down hill. Multiple fentanyl ODs in MCPS now. Kids have free reign in schools and use bathrooms as de facto drug dens and teachers aren't allowed to discipline squat. The county just gets dirtier, more lawless, and quality of life keeps going down. The only thing that ever goes up are taxes.

[Anonymous]

I will also add - they turned a house into a multiple housing until, and now our neighborhood is going to S. They've left trash bags full of clothes out in the gutter of the street for days, and now the bags are torn and clothes are strewn all over the street. Of course no in the unit is responsible or picks it up. Neighborhood has gone to hell. This is just a preview of the delights to be expected in the future with 'Thrive' 2050. The neighborhood was great until these d bags moved in down the street junkifying up the place.

[Anonymous]

Things in DC we’re definitely worse in the early 90s. That said post-pandemic the social fabric is fraying a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down.

Trend downward? Uuuuh.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

[Anonymous]

I am a 35 yr MoCo resident and yes, everything is far worse now - education, crime, tax, rude people. We plan to get out once I retire in two years.

[Anonymous]

I have lived in DC since the 90s.

There was a murder on my block in the 2008, but it was over a drug dispute. Crime seemed to affect mostly people involved in things like that if not people who locked their doors and kept their head down. I went out frequently, came home let etc and was never worried.

In the last 3-5 years, crime has become much more random with people held up and assaulted just walking around or carjacked in any neighborhood in town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down.

Trend downward? Uuuuh.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Yes, the trend was decreasing crime rates before the pandemic. Look at the #s at the bottom. It was even worse in the 80s/90s.

[Anonymous]