It's important to tell your Councilmembers if you’re upset with crime in the city.

[Anonymous]

I'm laughing that you think my councilmember Charles Allen cares that I am upset by crime. As I sit here on a public bus with a guy who is smoking a joint on a bus full of children and productive adults. For some reason you can't do that with a cigarette, but a joint is perfectly fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My CM is Charles Allen and I haven’t bothered to contact him because I feel like I would be wasting my breath. I’ll email Mendo though. I am actually contemplating leaving the city because I no longer feel safe.

I think even someone like Charles Allen can be nudged in the right direction. Those members might not ever be great about crime, but they can be better. We've seen the Council reverse course and decide to keep school resource officers (including Allen, from what I can tell). There seems to be a similar movement in the right direction when it comes to the number of police (not enough movement, but better than a few years back). Did anyone watch Bowser when she went to Congress? Republican Rep. William Timmons told Bowser he met with Allen after Allen came to Congress, and they found some areas they could work together on to improve prosecution and issues with the homeless.

Also people should keep in mind that everyone in this city has six council members representing them. One ward council member, four at-large council members, and the chair of the council.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Post did a survey: 3 out of 4 feel safe in their neighborhood.

There is no crime problem in DC. The Post said so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Twice this year I’ve email CM Frumin and my very progressive ANC rep about the increase in property and violent crime in our once sleepy neighborhood. Total crickets in response. These are not serious people.

Same, I’ve e-mailed Frumin a while ago and haven’t heard back. His public messaging suggests he doesn’t see crime as a serious problem. He and his team will be at Bread Furst on May 31 from 8am-5pm, so I might try to stop by and talk with someone personally if I have time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My CM is Charles Allen and I haven’t bothered to contact him because I feel like I would be wasting my breath. I’ll email Mendo though. I am actually contemplating leaving the city because I no longer feel safe.

I think even someone like Charles Allen can be nudged in the right direction. Those members might not ever be great about crime, but they can be better. We've seen the Council reverse course and decide to keep school resource officers (including Allen, from what I can tell). There seems to be a similar movement in the right direction when it comes to the number of police (not enough movement, but better than a few years back). Did anyone watch Bowser when she went to Congress? Republican Rep. William Timmons told Bowser he met with Allen after Allen came to Congress, and they found some areas they could work together on to improve prosecution and issues with the homeless.

Also people should keep in mind that everyone in this city has six council members representing them. One ward council member, four at-large council members, and the chair of the council.

No. Allen is a stubborn ideologue who is hellbent on legalizing ever more crime, whether directly or indirectly. Just look at his crime "reform" bill.

[Anonymous]

Btw, whatever happened to our loony DC Council's embarrassing crime legalization bill that both Bowser and Biden ended up vetoing? Will it be reintroduced at the midnight hour at some point?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twice this year I’ve email CM Frumin and my very progressive ANC rep about the increase in property and violent crime in our once sleepy neighborhood. Total crickets in response. These are not serious people.

Same, I’ve e-mailed Frumin a while ago and haven’t heard back. His public messaging suggests he doesn’t see crime as a serious problem. He and his team will be at Bread Furst on May 31 from 8am-5pm, so I might try to stop by and talk with someone personally if I have time.

Honestly Frumin looks like a deer in headlights most of the time. I think he thought this job was mostly ribbon cuttings and PTA meetings. We need someone who can push back and fight the crazies on the council to preserve one of the few livable parts of the city that is slipping away before our eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly Frumin looks like a deer in headlights most of the time. I think he thought this job was mostly ribbon cuttings and PTA meetings. We need someone who can push back and fight the crazies on the council to preserve one of the few livable parts of the city that is slipping away before our eyes.

I get the same impression. You look at his Twitter feed and the guy is doing photo-ops with restaurant workers for a trendy restaurant in Ward 2. Yet no mention of the crime in the city, which is the number one concern amongst residents (according to the recent Washington Post poll). He can't even be bothered to write back to residents who have written him about these issue. It's crazy that these days your unpaid ANC commissioner is more likely to be responsive than Councilmembers who are paid to do this as a full-time job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Btw, whatever happened to our loony DC Council's embarrassing crime legalization bill that both Bowser and Biden ended up vetoing? Will it be reintroduced at the midnight hour at some point?

What an unfortunate take. Biden didn’t veto it. He chose not to veto the congressional override. You also seem to have little appreciation for the actual content of the bill besides the nonsense fed to you by the likes of Tucker Carlson. The bill reduced a number of maximum penalties that are never applied and increased a few others. It would also have made a lot of crimes easier to prosecute by addressing ambiguities in the existing code. Not every provision in the bill was politically astute but the only thing “embarrassing” about it was the shameless mischaracterizations of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If people don't like what's happening in the city, it's important to write to your Councilmember, as well as all the at-large Councilmembers including the chair (the at-large councilmembers and council chair represent the whole city). Politely tell them how you feel and ask for them to address the problem. Even write to your ANC rep. If enough people push our elected officials to take crime seriously, it’s possible we’ll actually see some progress in that direction.

We’ve recently seen the Council reverse course on school resource officers (police) in schools. In 2021 the Council voted unanimously to remove the officers. In 2022, they voted 8-5 in favor of removing the officers. This month, they decided to keep them. Public pressure can work.

Mine is Nadeau. She likes it like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If people don't like what's happening in the city, it's important to write to your Councilmember, as well as all the at-large Councilmembers including the chair (the at-large councilmembers and council chair represent the whole city). Politely tell them how you feel and ask for them to address the problem. Even write to your ANC rep. If enough people push our elected officials to take crime seriously, it’s possible we’ll actually see some progress in that direction.

We’ve recently seen the Council reverse course on school resource officers (police) in schools. In 2021 the Council voted unanimously to remove the officers. In 2022, they voted 8-5 in favor of removing the officers. This month, they decided to keep them. Public pressure can work.

Twice this year I’ve email CM Frumin and my very progressive ANC rep about the increase in property and violent crime in our once sleepy neighborhood. Total crickets in response. These are not serious people.

They are focused on equity.

They are not focused on your safety or your quality of life. Your life doesn’t matter.

How is it equitable that 50 kids have been shot so far this year, almost all black, in contrast to 22 in all of 2022?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly Frumin looks like a deer in headlights most of the time. I think he thought this job was mostly ribbon cuttings and PTA meetings. We need someone who can push back and fight the crazies on the council to preserve one of the few livable parts of the city that is slipping away before our eyes.

I get the same impression. You look at his Twitter feed and the guy is doing photo-ops with restaurant workers for a trendy restaurant in Ward 2. Yet no mention of the crime in the city, which is the number one concern amongst residents (according to the recent Washington Post poll). He can't even be bothered to write back to residents who have written him about these issue. It's crazy that these days your unpaid ANC commissioner is more likely to be responsive than Councilmembers who are paid to do this as a full-time job.

I did not always agree with Cheh but she often had a more reasonable take. The tax base has moved before in DC, can happen again.

The rate of carjackings is insane as is the blatant daytime robberies of stores like CVS, goods to presumably be sold online. Either of those may impact me when I am out with my young kids. https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/carjacking

Public and Congressional pressure seems to be getting USAO Graves to take his job a bit more seriously. Not so with AG Schwab. And now there are 11 year olds holding kids up at gunpoint. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/boy-11-arrested-for-dc-robberies/ The slap on the wrist and return to a poor home environment that may glorify criminal behavior approach is not working. Truancy is high and does not seem to be a focus. Something needs to change. These kids are the grandchildren of the crack babies who may not have had stable upbringings with pro-social values and who may have been drug exposed in utero. The 6 year old who shot his teacher in VA comes from generations of teen parents. When kids don't attend school there is no influence but the streets, drill rap, peers, etc. Teaching child development and parenting skills in school could be worth a try along with routes to job training and skills, but there would have to be attendance. Remember the old parent an egg project?

[Anonymous]

^ typo, 11 year old kids holding ADULTS up at gunpoint in NW

[Anonymous]

As of 5/29 in DC, just 2023

304 carjackings, 73% involving guns

2,813 auto thefts

Many are charged as "unauthorized use" of auto, guessing those are all contained in auto theft?

Total =3,117 to date in 2023 is a rate of @ 21 stolen or carjacked cars per day. In a very small geographic area. The rates throughout DMV are high and prosecution, esp of juveniles is lax.

[Anonymous]

I am pretty sure my councilmember doesn't care about my individual opinion on this or any other issue, so I'm going to continue not writing to him on anything. I'll certainly vote, though.