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

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Anonymous wrote:This country has been flooded with over 200,000,000 new guns in the last 20 years. This is what happens when you flood a country with guns - you get more gun crime and gun incidents.

It’s cheap, easy, and quick for a hot-head teenager to get his hands on a gun. It shouldn’t be easy for that to happen.

No. This is what happens when the fatherlessness rate reaches 80%. The causal relationship is profound between fatherlessness, murders, shootings, violence, poverty, lack of upper-mobility, school miseries for teachers and students, drug use and sales, and general quality of life. We all pay the price. But let’s just keep focussing on the guns, instead.

I'm gonna go with "it's both of these things."

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Anonymous wrote:+1. Lived here 30 years. This is the worst I’ve seen it.

Yet you probably continued to vote democrat all that time. No worries, you'll fix it in the next election. lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Goulet would have been better?

Probably. Having at least one (or two, if you consider Pinto) of the 13 councilmembers treating crime as a top issue would have been good for the city in general. It's crazy that when residents are polled it's their top concern, yet almost all members of the council try to ignore it. It's not like Goulet is on the right either - the guy is a fairly typical liberal Democrat, who would have fit in with the city's political climate a couple of decades ago. It's just that the last decade has seen the council go off the deep end into crazy activist territory.

The guy also seems more like an actual advocate for Ward 3. Goulet has pointed out that Ward 3 is the worst served ward when it comes to the universal pre-K program, and has been for years (Ward 3 schools in general often end up towards the bottom of DCPS funding). He's rightly said that the city should prioritize the overcrowding in Ward 3 schools before they try to prioritize moving more people into Ward 3, while Frumin just talks about how Ward 3 should use more of it's resources for residents of other Wards.

If you want a visual of the way the D.C. government often treats Ward 3, take a look at the map of the free fitness centers the city built, and notice the empty space that encompasses Ward 3 (the only ward with no free fitness centers as far as I can tell):

https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fitness-centers

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What is Mayor Bowser doing to address this crime wave?

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Anonymous wrote:It's the combination of

increased census at Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Mentally ill + indigent patients attract family members who, sometimesNOTalways, are also low-functioning

an increase in the fentanyl-methy mush brained paranoid guys that NPS allows to live in the little triangle pocket parks, screaming and writing furiously about End Times. NPS also looks the other way when these guys set up tents in the bushes adjacent to Deal/JR

sorta Friendship Place (but not really, because their constituency tends to arrive purposefully for meals then leave / they don't loiter)

THREE count 'em THREE "vape" shops on Wisconsin that definitely, for sure only sell paraphernalia. The young males lurking in the overgrown weedy trees 1 block away on Belt Rd. are most definitely not getting high. Nor are they waiting for a connect.

Hundreds of newish neighbors brought to the Wisconsin and Connecticut corridors with Sec. 8 vouchers. They are visited by their friends sometimes.

And before the inevitable race card gets played, two of the cohorts I've described are predominantly white. Another one is super diverse _looking_, and one is majority black.

-- long-time resident who just loves the new Vibrancy.

Did you vote for it and not expect it to come to your neighborhood?

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Your choices on election day have brought this home for you.

No, this is not because of democratic policy. The data clearly show parallel increases in crime in rural districts and red states with red legislatures and red prosecutors. Meanwhile in Dallas texas the Democratic mayor is seeing improving crime rates even with liberal policies. Your partisan finger pointing will only lead to more crime.

Oops - that liberal mayor is a Republican now. Can we get some Dallas policies here please?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This country has been flooded with over 200,000,000 new guns in the last 20 years. This is what happens when you flood a country with guns - you get more gun crime and gun incidents.

It’s cheap, easy, and quick for a hot-head teenager to get his hands on a gun. It shouldn’t be easy for that to happen.

No. This is what happens when the fatherlessness rate reaches 80%. The causal relationship is profound between fatherlessness, murders, shootings, violence, poverty, lack of upper-mobility, school miseries for teachers and students, drug use and sales, and general quality of life. We all pay the price. But let’s just keep focussing on the guns, instead.

It's not guns. It's random people let in the border.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody wanted to vote for Monash or Goulet. That was a mistake. DC needs Republicans on the council to counterbalance things.

Goulet is a democrat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody wanted to vote for Monash or Goulet. That was a mistake. DC needs Republicans on the council to counterbalance things.

Goulet is a democrat.

So is Monash. But it doesn't matter why party they are registered in - we need the ideological diversity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Goulet would have been better?

Probably. Having at least one (or two, if you consider Pinto) of the 13 councilmembers treating crime as a top issue would have been good for the city in general. It's crazy that when residents are polled it's their top concern, yet almost all members of the council try to ignore it. It's not like Goulet is on the right either - the guy is a fairly typical liberal Democrat, who would have fit in with the city's political climate a couple of decades ago. It's just that the last decade has seen the council go off the deep end into crazy activist territory.

The guy also seems more like an actual advocate for Ward 3. Goulet has pointed out that Ward 3 is the worst served ward when it comes to the universal pre-K program, and has been for years (Ward 3 schools in general often end up towards the bottom of DCPS funding). He's rightly said that the city should prioritize the overcrowding in Ward 3 schools before they try to prioritize moving more people into Ward 3, while Frumin just talks about how Ward 3 should use more of it's resources for residents of other Wards.

If you want a visual of the way the D.C. government often treats Ward 3, take a look at the map of the free fitness centers the city built, and notice the empty space that encompasses Ward 3 (the only ward with no free fitness centers as far as I can tell):

https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fitness-centers

And yet it’s Ward 6 schools who are actually at the bottom of the funding list. How about explaining why that would be the case???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Goulet would have been better?

Probably. Having at least one (or two, if you consider Pinto) of the 13 councilmembers treating crime as a top issue would have been good for the city in general. It's crazy that when residents are polled it's their top concern, yet almost all members of the council try to ignore it. It's not like Goulet is on the right either - the guy is a fairly typical liberal Democrat, who would have fit in with the city's political climate a couple of decades ago. It's just that the last decade has seen the council go off the deep end into crazy activist territory.

The guy also seems more like an actual advocate for Ward 3. Goulet has pointed out that Ward 3 is the worst served ward when it comes to the universal pre-K program, and has been for years (Ward 3 schools in general often end up towards the bottom of DCPS funding). He's rightly said that the city should prioritize the overcrowding in Ward 3 schools before they try to prioritize moving more people into Ward 3, while Frumin just talks about how Ward 3 should use more of it's resources for residents of other Wards.

If you want a visual of the way the D.C. government often treats Ward 3, take a look at the map of the free fitness centers the city built, and notice the empty space that encompasses Ward 3 (the only ward with no free fitness centers as far as I can tell):

https://dpr.dc.gov/page/dpr-fitness-centers

And yet it’s Ward 6 schools who are actually at the bottom of the funding list. How about explaining why that would be the case???

+1! Especially considering that Ward 3 schools have so many fewer at risk students. Why do Ward 3 schools get more funding???

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody wanted to vote for Monash or Goulet. That was a mistake. DC needs Republicans on the council to counterbalance things.

Oh yeah, republicans will save us by changing our schools to all charter programs, defunding the regular ones, and getting rid of housing vouchers. Jesus.

Arguably charters are better choices than the dumps that are DCPS - and yes, that includes the Ward 3 schools. Wilson kids are a big part of the problem in Tenlytown - and no, not all of them. But anyone working in a store or business there will tell you the same story.

Charters are definitely better than Ward 3 schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody wanted to vote for Monash or Goulet. That was a mistake. DC needs Republicans on the council to counterbalance things.

Goulet is a democrat.

Has he moved his own kids from their Maryland private school into DCPS/DCPCS?

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Anonymous wrote:CM Frumin has a plan to make Ward 3 more “welcoming” to these folks, so it’s only going to get worse. Enjoy.

Him getting elected was a bit of a headscratcher. The Ward 3 highschool has 1/3 out of boundary students, which overcrowds it to the extent that parents of in-boundary students who want to send their kids their are instead opting to pay for expensive private schools. But Frumin says his main focus is - making sure Ward 3 is doing more for people living in other wards? I see Councilmembers from other wards sticking up and trying to get more for their wards, while the Ward 3 Councilmember is trying his best to take more from it.

Not to mention his habit of completely blowing off constituents who write to him.

I mean, I know D.C. elections across the city are almost entirely decided by personality rather than policy, but I thought there’d still be some limits. Not sure why Ward 3 voters weren’t interested in having an advocate for the ward.

Recall Frumin in January. You have to wait until he's served a year, but it can be done.

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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?

To put a moratorium on vouchers. To put a cap on the number of voucher recipients allowed per building. To pass legislation that would not attract homeless from outside DC to come to DC to get free housing in a swanky neighborhood.

To put ward 3 issues. To do longer term criminal background checks on voucher recipients. To enact tougher consequences for those committing violent crime. And to listen to and respond to constituents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes OP, yes.

Yea, instead of all the BS from the people on this thread who want to shame us for like stuff to be safe, clean and nice - I will just affirm your observation OP.

And to all the stores that moves from Glover up to Tenley - why did you do that? It’s way seedier up there!