stabbing in Friendship Heights

[Anonymous]

Who are you trolls?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Is this conjecture or can you link some evidence? I haven’t seen anything about the guy who committed the stabbing , if he’s a voucher holder on CT Ave, etc. this incident aside is there data on higher crime in FH /chevy Chase due to voucher program?

Considering buying here (blocks away from FH metro) with young kids and want to make informed decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.

The DC houses on the other side of the border cost as much or more per square foot. You know, in Chevy Chase DC and "FH" in DC. A tiny house costs "well over a million." People pay the high price in 20015 and 20016 close to Metro for all kinds of reasons: commute, free preK, adorable houses, whatever.

It's 2024, not 1984

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.

The DC houses on the other side of the border cost as much or more per square foot. You know, in Chevy Chase DC and "FH" in DC. A tiny house costs "well over a million." People pay the high price in 20015 and 20016 close to Metro for all kinds of reasons: commute, free preK, adorable houses, whatever.

It's 2024, not 1984

Yes, I paid a lot to be in CCDC for the reasons you listed, AND ALSO SAFETY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

[Anonymous]

If anyone had read the article, the stabbing occurred in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.

This is happening in Kensington, too. I was followed to my car by panhandling guys both near the Chipotle and the CVS further up the road. I’m a senior citizen. It’s scary.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone had read the article, the stabbing occurred in Maryland.

Do you know the area? Western Avenue divides DC and Maryland. The bus depot sits on Western Avenue. It is technically MD but, if she took three steps, she would have been in DC.
The stabber was apprehended in Chevy Chase Circle, so he stabbed, turned around and ran on Western Avenue towards DC and Connecticut Avenue. Conn Avenue is turning complicated: vouchers!

[Anonymous]

This kind of crap has been going on in this neck of the woods regularly since covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.

DP, I shop at the ChCH safeway 2 to 3 times a week, given I live nearby. I have never, not once, seen this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable.

Lots of people— including some who post here — don’t want things to be “nice” and equitable. So not-nice and equitable is a not surprising result. How many of you complaining about the spread of violent crime have done anything —anything at all— to ensure that under-resourced neighborhoods get better resources. Even when it comes to public resources, the privileged neighborhoods and schools seem eager to maintain their privileges. So we can have nice things. The “trick” is that everyone gets access to nice things and nice neighborhoods — particularly when it comes to public services and resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable.

Lots of people— including some who post here — don’t want things to be “nice” and equitable. So not-nice and equitable is a not surprising result. How many of you complaining about the spread of violent crime have done anything —anything at all— to ensure that under-resourced neighborhoods get better resources. Even when it comes to public resources, the privileged neighborhoods and schools seem eager to maintain their privileges. So we can have nice things. The “trick” is that everyone gets access to nice things and nice neighborhoods — particularly when it comes to public services and resources.

Nonsense word salad.

[Anonymous]

Friendship Heights - both sides of Western - have had issues recently. The vacant Lord & Taylor parking lot seems to have been the source of a lot of issues but that seems to have died down a bit. Do a search and you will see a number of incidents around there. There was a murder in the hotel in CC Pavilion earlier this year.

That said, maybe the new Mazza development and the redevelopment of the CC Pavilion building will help revitalize the area a bit.

[Anonymous]

Mauriel "Crime for All" Bowser