Did you see any improvement in DC during last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

That's you. In reality it's the same. The only difference is that nightlife is now dead. You get to walk around but there's no where to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

That's you. In reality it's the same. The only difference is that nightlife is now dead. You get to walk around but there's no where to go.

You are obviously a troll who doesn’t live in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

It must suck to be scared of your shadow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police are actually working again, so actual perceived crime is WAY down in our downtown building. Astronomically as it had gotten fully out of control. Of course we let this stupidity go on for so long that ICE is now kidnapping people, the restaurants are dying if not gone, and we basically gave up all our rights. STUPID STUPID STUPID

This. Why can’t we run the city (and country) without steering so far left we get this backlash?

+2

One of the major changes I see in near NE is removing the homeless encampments. It's a major quality of life shift for everyone else. We'll see what comes back when it gets warm again, but clearing out the encampments under the bridges in NOMA was such a relief. It had reached a point where first I stopped walking through the area with my kid, and then I didn't even want to walk there on my own.

Some of this stuff is just common sense. Of course I have empathy for the homeless and would like the city to do what we can to help them find housing and provide services. Of course. But the idea that we simply have no choice but to allow people to set up tent cities wherever they want, and live in what can only be described as squalor? No, we don't have to do that.

Being a liberal does not mean punishing yourself by forcing yourself to accept literally anything. You can be liberal and be okay with cops prosecuting crime. You can be liberal and not be okay with people pissing and pooping on the sidewalk, drinking and sleeping and sometimes doing drugs on the street. You can be compassionate towards others while also having some standards for the community you live in.

I hate Trump btw. It is humiliating that he forced these issues while DC government sat on its hands. It makes us look so stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police are actually working again, so actual perceived crime is WAY down in our downtown building. Astronomically as it had gotten fully out of control. Of course we let this stupidity go on for so long that ICE is now kidnapping people, the restaurants are dying if not gone, and we basically gave up all our rights. STUPID STUPID STUPID

This. Why can’t we run the city (and country) without steering so far left we get this backlash?

+2

One of the major changes I see in near NE is removing the homeless encampments. It's a major quality of life shift for everyone else. We'll see what comes back when it gets warm again, but clearing out the encampments under the bridges in NOMA was such a relief. It had reached a point where first I stopped walking through the area with my kid, and then I didn't even want to walk there on my own.

Some of this stuff is just common sense. Of course I have empathy for the homeless and would like the city to do what we can to help them find housing and provide services. Of course. But the idea that we simply have no choice but to allow people to set up tent cities wherever they want, and live in what can only be described as squalor? No, we don't have to do that.

Being a liberal does not mean punishing yourself by forcing yourself to accept literally anything. You can be liberal and be okay with cops prosecuting crime. You can be liberal and not be okay with people pissing and pooping on the sidewalk, drinking and sleeping and sometimes doing drugs on the street. You can be compassionate towards others while also having some standards for the community you live in.

I hate Trump btw. It is humiliating that he forced these issues while DC government sat on its hands. It makes us look so stupid.

I also disliked the encampments and think it was the right thing to disband them, but to be clear the ones in NoMa have been gone for 3-4 years at this point. Trump deserves no credit for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police are actually working again, so actual perceived crime is WAY down in our downtown building. Astronomically as it had gotten fully out of control. Of course we let this stupidity go on for so long that ICE is now kidnapping people, the restaurants are dying if not gone, and we basically gave up all our rights. STUPID STUPID STUPID

This. Why can’t we run the city (and country) without steering so far left we get this backlash?

+2

One of the major changes I see in near NE is removing the homeless encampments. It's a major quality of life shift for everyone else. We'll see what comes back when it gets warm again, but clearing out the encampments under the bridges in NOMA was such a relief. It had reached a point where first I stopped walking through the area with my kid, and then I didn't even want to walk there on my own.

Some of this stuff is just common sense. Of course I have empathy for the homeless and would like the city to do what we can to help them find housing and provide services. Of course. But the idea that we simply have no choice but to allow people to set up tent cities wherever they want, and live in what can only be described as squalor? No, we don't have to do that.

Being a liberal does not mean punishing yourself by forcing yourself to accept literally anything. You can be liberal and be okay with cops prosecuting crime. You can be liberal and not be okay with people pissing and pooping on the sidewalk, drinking and sleeping and sometimes doing drugs on the street. You can be compassionate towards others while also having some standards for the community you live in.

I hate Trump btw. It is humiliating that he forced these issues while DC government sat on its hands. It makes us look so stupid.

Can you run for Mayor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The police are actually working again, so actual perceived crime is WAY down in our downtown building. Astronomically as it had gotten fully out of control. Of course we let this stupidity go on for so long that ICE is now kidnapping people, the restaurants are dying if not gone, and we basically gave up all our rights. STUPID STUPID STUPID

This. Why can’t we run the city (and country) without steering so far left we get this backlash?

+2

One of the major changes I see in near NE is removing the homeless encampments. It's a major quality of life shift for everyone else. We'll see what comes back when it gets warm again, but clearing out the encampments under the bridges in NOMA was such a relief. It had reached a point where first I stopped walking through the area with my kid, and then I didn't even want to walk there on my own.

Some of this stuff is just common sense. Of course I have empathy for the homeless and would like the city to do what we can to help them find housing and provide services. Of course. But the idea that we simply have no choice but to allow people to set up tent cities wherever they want, and live in what can only be described as squalor? No, we don't have to do that.

Being a liberal does not mean punishing yourself by forcing yourself to accept literally anything. You can be liberal and be okay with cops prosecuting crime. You can be liberal and not be okay with people pissing and pooping on the sidewalk, drinking and sleeping and sometimes doing drugs on the street. You can be compassionate towards others while also having some standards for the community you live in.

I hate Trump btw. It is humiliating that he forced these issues while DC government sat on its hands. It makes us look so stupid.

The old liberals believed that a well functioning society needed rules and that they should apply to everyone equally.

The 21st century American left wants to view everything through the lens of identity.

The old left would say that laws against littering, speeding, public defecation, petty theft, vandalism, etc, should be enforced universally… but the modern left wants to enforce laws conditionally based on the identity of the parties or not at all because law enforcement inevitably has disparate impact on minorities, the poor, etc.

Every law or policy debate is now hijacked by identitarians shrieking about racism, or who is or isn’t “disadvantaged” or “vulnerable,” rather than whether the law or policy being debated would result in a better functioning society that everyone could share in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Homocides down 32% is the big one because that’s a number that can’t be fudged.

+1000 You can't make that up. I'm a grown adult and I give credit where credits due.

It feels safer as well. I'm pretty happy about that.

[Anonymous]

I can no longer afford to eat lunch out, not even in the work cafeteria, and have to bring all my food every single day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

you might, but many other people don’t, but the people who feel unsafe now are largely people of color. Perhaps you don’t care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

you might, but many other people don’t, but the people who feel unsafe now are largely people of color. Perhaps you don’t care?

Here is a perfect example, one person states that they feel safer because the murder rate is down, and someone immediately tries to derail the discussion by claiming that “people of color“ feel less safe because the law is being enforced…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

you might, but many other people don’t, but the people who feel unsafe now are largely people of color. Perhaps you don’t care?

How do you know people of color feel less safe? Why don’t you stfu and let them raise their own issues? The people benefitting from less murder are all the black men and their children they will finally be alive to raise. I can’t imagine they feel less safe when more of them are actually alive. Participation trophy for still trying to typecast them as the victims when they are so clearly the benefactors of lower crime

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can no longer afford to eat lunch out, not even in the work cafeteria, and have to bring all my food every single day.

😭What?! This isn't about you. Did you even read the title?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

you might, but many other people don’t, but the people who feel unsafe now are largely people of color. Perhaps you don’t care?

Here is a perfect example, one person states that they feel safer because the murder rate is down, and someone immediately tries to derail the discussion by claiming that “people of color“ feel less safe because the law is being enforced…

+1 this is the constant response and it's stale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel a lot more comfortable walking around downtown now, especially at night.

you might, but many other people don’t, but the people who feel unsafe now are largely people of color. Perhaps you don’t care?

How do you know people of color feel less safe? Why don’t you stfu and let them raise their own issues? The people benefitting from less murder are all the black men and their children they will finally be alive to raise. I can’t imagine they feel less safe when more of them are actually alive. Participation trophy for still trying to typecast them as the victims when they are so clearly the benefactors of lower crime

+1 everyone benefits from less crime to make this white, brown or black is stupid.