Gun violence in Columbia Heights DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shutting down the drug market would be a first step, and that is the job of police and prosecutors. No amount of community engagement will work without getting rid of the bad element.

The community does not want police and prosecutors going after drug dealers.

Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shutting down the drug market would be a first step, and that is the job of police and prosecutors. No amount of community engagement will work without getting rid of the bad element.

The community does not want police and prosecutors going after drug dealers.

Then they have to deal with living among the drug dealers and the crimes that are associated with them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shutting down the drug market would be a first step, and that is the job of police and prosecutors. No amount of community engagement will work without getting rid of the bad element.

The community does not want police and prosecutors going after drug dealers.

OP here. Yes, I've heard this from some neighbors. They don't believe it would result in a better life for most of the families impacted.

[Anonymous]

As long as people call it "gun violence" or "gun deaths" the issue will never be fixed. Blaming these incidences on an inanimate object versus the criminals that are doing the actual violence is not helping.

A problem first needs to be identified before it can be fixed. And even than the "fix" needs to start in the community that is affected and causing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shutting down the drug market would be a first step, and that is the job of police and prosecutors. No amount of community engagement will work without getting rid of the bad element.

The community does not want police and prosecutors going after drug dealers.

OP here. Yes, I've heard this from some neighbors. They don't believe it would result in a better life for most of the families impacted.

That's insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in CH when the the DCUSA site was a needle-strewn vacant lot, the Tivoli was still boarded up and every shopkeeper on 14th Street worked behind an inch-think wall of plexiglass.

I felt much safer then than I do in CH now. This is what happens when you build luxury condos and million-dollar renovated rowhouses right next to entrenched poverty.

I'm from DC and agree, I have seen the whole evolution. Everyone was SO HOPEFUL when they put the new metro in, and then the 'vibrant density' happened overnight, very soul-lessly (building just to build + sell), and the neighnorhood is somewhat worse in some regards. Plus our feeble attitudes towards youth violence and rehabilitation. YUCK. I roll my eyes when the density bros talk, having moved on to other neighnorhoods to destroy.

[Anonymous]

It has gotten out of control in Columbia Heights. I will not be voting for Nadeau again in Ward 1. Lesson learned. Sabel Harris seems like a Nadeau clone and also wants to defund the police. Salah Czapary is getting my vote.

[Anonymous]

I'm concerned that the crime and poverty are only going to get worse. I think we're caught at the start of a vicious cycle in which more and more people leave DC permanently and fewer and fewer people move into DC because of post-pandemic work patterns, a desire for more space, and/or concerns about rising crime. The city's tax base gradually erodes and the poverty/crime only continues to get worse.

[Anonymous]

I'm concerned that the crime and poverty are only going to get worse. I think we're caught at the start of a vicious cycle in which more and more people leave DC permanently and fewer and fewer people move into DC because of post-pandemic work patterns, a desire for more space, and/or concerns about rising crime. The city's tax base gradually erodes and the poverty/crime only continues to get worse.

This was called the 1980s. DC has BTDT. Culminating in city mismanagement so profound that Congress placed the city under oversight of a control board.

[Anonymous]

Yet they keep voting Democrat. Go figure!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet they keep voting Democrat. Go figure![/quote

Do Republicans even run candidates for councilmembers or do they not even bother because they know that their "ideas" are dead on arrival?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm concerned that the crime and poverty are only going to get worse. I think we're caught at the start of a vicious cycle in which more and more people leave DC permanently and fewer and fewer people move into DC because of post-pandemic work patterns, a desire for more space, and/or concerns about rising crime. The city's tax base gradually erodes and the poverty/crime only continues to get worse.

This was called the 1980s. DC has BTDT. Culminating in city mismanagement so profound that Congress placed the city under oversight of a control board.

Just because it’s happened before doesn’t mean it can happen again, or something similar can take place. History has a knack for repeating itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm concerned that the crime and poverty are only going to get worse. I think we're caught at the start of a vicious cycle in which more and more people leave DC permanently and fewer and fewer people move into DC because of post-pandemic work patterns, a desire for more space, and/or concerns about rising crime. The city's tax base gradually erodes and the poverty/crime only continues to get worse.

This is happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I thought it was all the guns coming in from evil Virginia that drive DC's rampant crime and murder. Now you're telling me it's a man who stands on the 1400 block of Fairmont? But how can I keep my hate Virginia narrative alive in light of this info

There’s plenty of reasons to hate va, including unnecessary and obnoxious comments like this one. Wonder where this man gets his guns from? Most likely va

I’d be mad too. VA residents can own firearms and behave, you can’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I thought it was all the guns coming in from evil Virginia that drive DC's rampant crime and murder. Now you're telling me it's a man who stands on the 1400 block of Fairmont? But how can I keep my hate Virginia narrative alive in light of this info

There’s plenty of reasons to hate va, including unnecessary and obnoxious comments like this one. Wonder where this man gets his guns from? Most likely va

I’d be mad too. VA residents can own firearms and behave, you can’t.

You are missing the point. It is the trade in illegal markets (drugs and guns) that is causing the gun violence, not an inability to behave. You too would be shooting a gun on the streets of Columbia Heights if you were trading in these goods.