DC ranked almost last for home and community safety

[Anonymous]

https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-cities-in-america/41926

Home and Community safety score is comprised of these metrics:
Presence of Terrorist Attacks: Triple Weight (~7.89 Points)
Note: This binary metric considers the presence or absence of terrorist attack or terrorist-related incident in the city between 2013 and 2023.
Number of Mass Shootings: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Murders & Non-Negligent Manslaughters per Capita: Triple Weight (~7.89 Points)
Forcible Rapes per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Assaults per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Thefts per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Sex Offenders per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Law-Enforcement Employees per Capita: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
Active Firefighters per Capita: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
EMTs & Paramedics per Capita: Half weight (~1.32 Points)
Note: “EMTs” refer to Emergency Medical Technicians.
Hate Crimes per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Share of Sheltered Homeless: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
Perception of Safety (Safety walking alone during daylight/night): Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Note: These data are based on perceptions of visitors of Numbeo website in the past 3 years. If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.
Drug Poisoning Deaths per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Traffic Fatalities per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Pedestrian Fatalities per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Note: “Pedestrians” also includes pedacyclists.
Road Quality: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)

Can native DC residents share their thoughts and experience, especially those who have lived there for a long time? We are considering a move into DC due to work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://wallethub.com/edu/safest-cities-in-america/41926

Home and Community safety score is comprised of these metrics:
Presence of Terrorist Attacks: Triple Weight (~7.89 Points)
Note: This binary metric considers the presence or absence of terrorist attack or terrorist-related incident in the city between 2013 and 2023.
Number of Mass Shootings: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Murders & Non-Negligent Manslaughters per Capita: Triple Weight (~7.89 Points)
Forcible Rapes per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Assaults per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Thefts per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Sex Offenders per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Law-Enforcement Employees per Capita: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
Active Firefighters per Capita: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
EMTs & Paramedics per Capita: Half weight (~1.32 Points)
Note: “EMTs” refer to Emergency Medical Technicians.
Hate Crimes per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Share of Sheltered Homeless: Half Weight (~1.32 Points)
Perception of Safety (Safety walking alone during daylight/night): Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Note: These data are based on perceptions of visitors of Numbeo website in the past 3 years. If the value is 0, it means it is perceived as very low, and if the value is 100, it means it is perceived as very high.
Drug Poisoning Deaths per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Traffic Fatalities per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Pedestrian Fatalities per Capita: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)
Note: “Pedestrians” also includes pedacyclists.
Road Quality: Full Weight (~2.63 Points)

Can native DC residents share their thoughts and experience, especially those who have lived there for a long time? We are considering a move into DC due to work.

Well, I guess you can move to Columbia, MD and still "be here for work" as long as you don't have to go into downtown every day?

Most of the "cities" that are even in the top 50 are not "real" cities compared to the big cities which are all slammed at the bottom of this list but have great, good, mediocre, and bad areas to live in them while those areas also have world class amenities that you're just not gonna find in ... Scottsdale AZ or Tallahassee FL.

[Anonymous]

Based on perceptions of visitors to the site… ok. Given how much press Republicans like to give to DC, those “ perceptions “ are not surprising.

[Anonymous]

What I don't understand is smugness of VA and MD folks. If you are coming to work in DC every day and spending most of your waking hours here, walking on streets here, how different is it from living here?

[Anonymous]

I'm upset by it OP. I was born here and we are being failed at historic levels by our elected officials. Even though we've only had our car stolen (I can't believe I'm saying that), there is an atmosphere of danger and unpredictability everywhere that I have never experienced before. There is also an almost intolerable level of apologists for crime (our elected officials + an complete oversaturation of smug ultraliberal residents) that just rubs salt in the all of this. IUnder Mayor Williams this town was great, and it could be a fantastic place to live again. For now, I'd pause and really research where to live in the DMV if I were you.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, by virtue of being the capital city, we’re more likely to be the target of a terrorist attack — both domestic and foreign.
This has zero to do with local government. If this aspect of living here troubles you, then leave. New York would also be a problematic choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is smugness of VA and MD folks. If you are coming to work in DC every day and spending most of your waking hours here, walking on streets here, how different is it from living here?

My office has security guards. My home doesn’t. I think that’s a pretty big difference.

[Anonymous]

If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.

So we're back to the olden days? Run in and run out? Avoid certain areas? As a DC resident, it sucks to see our rulers concede the city to criminals. "But they are like this because they didn't get enough..... (fill in the blanks)" It can be true there are contributing factors that should be addressed long term as best as society can manage; it can also be true that one you make certain choices to harm society you need to be dealt with now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.

So we're back to the olden days? Run in and run out? Avoid certain areas? As a DC resident, it sucks to see our rulers concede the city to criminals. "But they are like this because they didn't get enough..... (fill in the blanks)" It can be true there are contributing factors that should be addressed long term as best as society can manage; it can also be true that one you make certain choices to harm society you need to be dealt with now.

Yes, Democratic leaders with their around the clock armed security details see no reason to care about law and order of the ordinary citizen. Just care about the money they will make in, but more importantly once they leave office.

Won’t catch them in the city then, nope off to the gated community. Yet the city dwellers keep voting for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is smugness of VA and MD folks. If you are coming to work in DC every day and spending most of your waking hours here, walking on streets here, how different is it from living here?

A lot different if you drive to a parking garage in your office. Taking the metro is a different story depending on your route.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.

So we're back to the olden days? Run in and run out? Avoid certain areas? As a DC resident, it sucks to see our rulers concede the city to criminals. "But they are like this because they didn't get enough..... (fill in the blanks)" It can be true there are contributing factors that should be addressed long term as best as society can manage; it can also be true that one you make certain choices to harm society you need to be dealt with now.

Yes, Democratic leaders with their around the clock armed security details see no reason to care about law and order of the ordinary citizen. Just care about the money they will make in, but more importantly once they leave office.

Won’t catch them in the city then, nope off to the gated community. Yet the city dwellers keep voting for them.

Some kind of Stockholm Syndrome? Insane. As a city dweller I am constantly dismayed by my options come voting time. We don't have ranked voting, so very few reasonable candidates ever make it into the actual election. It sucks so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you move to Northern VA and drive into work and park in a secure building you will be fairly safe.

DC is worse at nights and weekends.

+1, DH and I lived in DC for 5 years and then migrated out to VA. Now we literally only set foot in DC to go to work, where we park in our secure buildings. We used to have occasional date nights in DC after work, but we don’t anymore because it’s not worth it. It’s really sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What I don't understand is smugness of VA and MD folks. If you are coming to work in DC every day and spending most of your waking hours here, walking on streets here, how different is it from living here?

Your family/kids aren’t in DC. Your kids don’t go to school in DC. You probably aren’t in DC late at night, or spending much time anywhere except inside your secure office. If you take the Metro, your car isn’t in DC to be stolen/carjacked (I realize some people are afraid of the Metro). Lots of differences.

[Anonymous]

We’ve been failed by every level of elected official from ANC, to council, to mayor. They’ve spent the last two years on bike lanes and hunting down parks and schools to rename instead of focusing on the crime crisis. They are unserious people, yet will easily be reelected.