Has Au/tenley town gotten seedier? Lots of homeless and random people

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

I wrote to him; he never wrote back. Judging by his Twitter feed he has time to do photo ops with the workers at popular D.C. restaurants in Ward 2, but not answer his own constituents in Ward 3. My ANC rep - who unlike Frumin, doesn't do this as his full time job and doesn't have a paid staff - writes back immediately.

I think everyone should write to all six of their councilmembers (ward councilmember, four at-large councilmembers, council chair) just to see how unresponsive the people we elect actually are. For all the talk about "taxation without representation," it seems too many people don't care if our current elected leaders completely ignore their constituents.

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

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Info re: carjacking on Macomb in Cleveland Park

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

I wrote to him; he never wrote back. Judging by his Twitter feed he has time to do photo ops with the workers at popular D.C. restaurants in Ward 2, but not answer his own constituents in Ward 3. My ANC rep - who unlike Frumin, doesn't do this as his full time job and doesn't have a paid staff - writes back immediately.

I think everyone should write to all six of their councilmembers (ward councilmember, four at-large councilmembers, council chair) just to see how unresponsive the people we elect actually are. For all the talk about "taxation without representation," it seems too many people don't care if our current elected leaders completely ignore their constituents.

Funny, I wrote him recently and he got right back to me. His staff has been very responsive to issues on our street (not crime related)

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

LOL! Low energy Matt limps in with a “crime” tweet about a hearing for gods sake. Zero outrage. Zero anger at how the city has regressed. But he didn’t miss an opportunity to wink at the crazy progressives with his dog whistle comment about “effective law enforcement.” So pathetic.

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This poster FTW - they got it right.

“Now we’re stuck with lame duck Frumin who cruises around the Ward on his bike like some Bon vivant looking for a fresh baguette. While the city is cratering and his ward becoming a crime zone his most recent piece of legislation was to declare May “Old People are Cool Month.”

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Anonymous wrote:From the Chevy Chase listserv just today: "Please sign our petition to keep the Chevy Chase Commons (the Community Center and Library) out of the hands of private developers: ccdcvoice.org

Not wanting private developers to build apartments in the public library and community center means you're a NIMBY?

when the development plans specifically involve keeping the library and community center?

Yes, absolutely it means you're a NIMBY. "Literally the only thing that will change is more apartments and I don't like that" is basically the dictionary definition of NIMBY.

Getting back on topic about development pursuits in W3 and why they are slow as hell or unsuccessful, did anyone catch that depressing ANC 3/4g meeting last night? Or check out the ChCh listserv which is presently blowing up with the latest group formation from the same NIMBY landowners who brought you Save Conn Ave, Friends of the Field, and God Save the CP Service Lane (okay I made that last one up)? It's the forth apocalyptic event of this year to befall the area!

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

The time to “hear from experts” on the most pressing issue in his Ward was BEFORE he ran for the seat. The sight of a 65 year old man with a lifetime of experience having no fully formed ideas on just about any issue is sad to watch. The residents of Ward 3 don’t have time for him to get on the job training. This is not what leadership looks like. Why did he even run for this job?

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

The time to “hear from experts” on the most pressing issue in his Ward was BEFORE he ran for the seat. The sight of a 65 year old man with a lifetime of experience having no fully formed ideas on just about any issue is sad to watch. The residents of Ward 3 don’t have time for him to get on the job training. This is not what leadership looks like. Why did he even run for this job?

Your obsession with these people is really, really weird and frankly kind of creepy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

Pickleball is his priority.

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Anonymous wrote:DC in general has turned into a dump. The willfully blind are so because they do not want to admit that Democratic policies and politicians made this mess.

A dump? Please. This city is pretty damn clean compared to most in the US. Do you get out much?

I'm not the PP, but DC is terrible these days. I was born here and have lived here consistently for 20+ years. Tony Williams revived downtown (and got slammed for it as he had to make some concessions to developers). However, he was bringing business back into the city and the results speak for themselves to this day if you remember places like Gallery Place pre and post TW. It got cleaner, better, safer with so many more options for entertainment and commerce. Now the development collusion under the current Mayor and GGW ilk is on high profit housing - business is an afterthought. High rents plus tons of incentives for landlords to let storefront properties sit vacant for long periods have greatly affected our beautiful corridors, bringing in both stagnation and big box/fast food. Friendship Heights "makeover" has pretty much driven out the businesses, they destroyed the marble facade on Mazza rather than repurposing it (not great environmentally), empty stores, institutions just poof gone, but yay more condos coming! The urban loft architecture of City Ridge--just what we needed, more super boring "urban lofts" (hello, the 90s are calling). The city's policies around section 8 have been a disaster--we've all seen the mini haz zone on Connecticut Ave they've created by illegally offering landlords more than typical rent to flip rent controlled apartments to Sec-8 without any oversight or services. And the defund the police/restorative justice folks have created a greenhouse for nuisance crime, which plagues the whole city TBH. Some of us remember when metro was a source of pride and Fawn Hall was cited for eating a banana while awaiting her train. Can you imagine that today? Don't get me started on the vermin everywhere (how many rat catchers does DC have? 1, 2, 3? the number is shockingly low) and mentally ill/addicted face planted on the sidewalk. I think I am the only person who calls in wellness checks because I have compassion--the rest of you step over the bodies as far as I can tell because you don't want to "bother" them? And car crime. But it's just an insurance matter. Whatever. Anyway, yes, DC's trajectory is appalling and those of us who enjoyed its rise are mourning its fall. To the person crowing about Ward 3 "getting served", you come across as emotionally and intellectually immature. And it's not Ward 3, it's city-wide.

So well said!

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

The time to “hear from experts” on the most pressing issue in his Ward was BEFORE he ran for the seat. The sight of a 65 year old man with a lifetime of experience having no fully formed ideas on just about any issue is sad to watch. The residents of Ward 3 don’t have time for him to get on the job training. This is not what leadership looks like. Why did he even run for this job?

Your obsession with these people is really, really weird and frankly kind of creepy.

Eight CVS stores have been looted in broad daylight in his Ward this year. Multiple armed carjackings. Countless thefts and property crimes. Seniors afraid to walk the halls of their once quiet apartment buildings. It is right to mock and shame him for his silence and ambivalence. Frankly, it’s creepy he just sits by and watches.

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Anonymous wrote:Carjacking just down the road from Tenleytown last night near the Cathedral/Eaton. Insane.

More info plz?

Not sure this is it, but possibly related:

“The Second District is investigating a Robbery that that occurred in the 3300 block of Macomb Street NW at approximately 11:58 p.m. on Sunday the 25th of June. If anyone has information about this event please contact the police.”

Does anyone know what our Councilman doing on crime? Countless armed crimes and looted stores in recent weeks in his Ward. Yet, his Twitter is mainly full of interesting, but completely irrelevant, facts about long ago racism.

What do you expect a councilmember to do about crime? They are not the police. They can sponsor funding for police (which Frumin has done) and they can pass laws, but beyond that, what do you expect?

Oh, I don’t know. Perhaps use his elected platform to draw attention to the issue and increase the drumbeat that serious action is needed? Show up to one of the multiple daily crime scenes? Invite the Judiciary Chair to Ward 3 for a public meeting? I mean he’s sent 11 Tweets this year on pool closures and ZERO about crime. I’m not sure he’s the the right guy for this job.

With the exception of the Judiciary Chair idea, he has done the other things. People were complaining that the pools haven't been opened so he apparently is responding to those as well.

And I saw this a minute ago...

Seems like he is doing his job.

The time to “hear from experts” on the most pressing issue in his Ward was BEFORE he ran for the seat. The sight of a 65 year old man with a lifetime of experience having no fully formed ideas on just about any issue is sad to watch. The residents of Ward 3 don’t have time for him to get on the job training. This is not what leadership looks like. Why did he even run for this job?

Your obsession with these people is really, really weird and frankly kind of creepy.

Eight CVS stores have been looted in broad daylight in his Ward this year. Multiple armed carjackings. Countless thefts and property crimes. Seniors afraid to walk the halls of their once quiet apartment buildings. It is right to mock and shame him for his silence and ambivalence. Frankly, it’s creepy he just sits by and watches.

CVS looting is happening everywhere. That isn't unique to DC...