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

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Anonymous wrote:Cute little coffee shop/bakery in Tenleytown front door smashed in today. Word is someone banged into it with a shopping cart. How might that have happened I wonder.

Not this one, I hope? The staff are all very sweet and young.

https://www.sakusakuflakerie.com/

If it was them it is super close to PIW.

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Anonymous wrote:If 2D can't keep order in Cathedral Commons, what can they do? I think the flasher should be arrested. Last I checked, that activity was illegal.

The 2D police regularly shop at the Giant and CVS, and presumably see what's going on around Cathedral Commons. This is occurring practically right in front of them.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

The Secretary of Interior is so focused on her performative indigenous posturing that she has lost sight of protecting the national perks, the Nation’s Crown Jewels and her department’s foremost mission.

They should move the homeless from DC parklands to spacious parks out west.

DC should create a fenced shelter and care facility on the unused RFK parking lots with security and a strict no drugs rule, with medical care and vocational training. Parks and streets are no place for vagrants. “campers.”

What a great idea to "concentrate" all the "campers" into one fenced area, patrolled by guards with strict rules. Surely this won't be problematic in any way or have terrible historical precedent.

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Does DC offer the same level of support and benefits to homeless individuals that surrounding jurisdictions do, or more? How does it compare with NY and Philadelphia? Certainly DC should do what is reasonable and compassionate, but DC does not want to provide more and therefore attract people to come to DC for enhanced social benefits.

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Matt Y parses what people mean by "homeless," actually kind of a useful take to parse out people who are working/functional vs. mentally ill vagrants and addicts making the streets unsafe

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This was posted in response - in light of the flasher in Cathedral Commons and violent man who beat preschool teachers and masturbated in front of the children, the conversations have little to do with housing per se but the same term is used and a free apartment is bandied about as the "solution" when it won't fix untreated mental illness, violent behavior or addiction.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

The Secretary of Interior is so focused on her performative indigenous posturing that she has lost sight of protecting the national perks, the Nation’s Crown Jewels and her department’s foremost mission.

They should move the homeless from DC parklands to spacious parks out west.

DC should create a fenced shelter and care facility on the unused RFK parking lots with security and a strict no drugs rule, with medical care and vocational training. Parks and streets are no place for vagrants. “campers.”

What a great idea to "concentrate" all the "campers" into one fenced area, patrolled by guards with strict rules. Surely this won't be problematic in any way or have terrible historical precedent.

Letting them loose in the city to wreak havoc everywhere and cause lasting, long-term harm through sex offenses against minors without repercussions doesn’t seem like such a great alternative.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

The Secretary of Interior is so focused on her performative indigenous posturing that she has lost sight of protecting the national perks, the Nation’s Crown Jewels and her department’s foremost mission.

They should move the homeless from DC parklands to spacious parks out west.

DC should create a fenced shelter and care facility on the unused RFK parking lots with security and a strict no drugs rule, with medical care and vocational training. Parks and streets are no place for vagrants. “campers.”

What a great idea to "concentrate" all the "campers" into one fenced area, patrolled by guards with strict rules. Surely this won't be problematic in any way or have terrible historical precedent.

Letting them loose in the city to wreak havoc everywhere and cause lasting, long-term harm through sex offenses against minors without repercussions doesn’t seem like such a great alternative.

No one is proposing 24/7 confinement. But clearly there would need to be some security fencing on the compound and monitored entrances, particularly at night to discourage crime, drug dealing/substance abuse and prostitution.

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I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

That's you. Last year, a homeless beggar accosted my two kids (8, 10) and yelled out racial slurs at them. I was about 20-steps behind them and couldn't believe the vileness of this a-hole. I caught up and accosted him because I needed him to SHUT UP and stop traumatizing my children. Some of these people are not harmless at all. They are crazy, some are criminals, the are racist and they make the neighborhood unsafe.

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

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Anonymous wrote:I went up to Tenleytown last night. The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there. The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there. There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance. Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.

The dude outside the CVS has advertising on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?

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