Stabbing at The Brandywine in 4500 block Connecticut Ave. NW DC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

Hahahahaha. Another sucker.

[Anonymous]

What she's done is squeeze out the middle. We now have higher income folks who live in SFHs and the new glossy apartments like CIty Ridge and we have voucher holders. The apartments where families with fewer resouces used to live have either been redeveloped or inundated with voucher holders. That's the reality in Ward 3.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What she's done is squeeze out the middle. We now have higher income folks who live in SFHs and the new glossy apartments like CIty Ridge and we have voucher holders. The apartments where families with fewer resouces used to live have either been redeveloped or inundated with voucher holders. That's the reality in Ward 3.

Eliminating single family home zoning in Ward 3 would address the “missing middle.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

What meeting was that, PP? Is there a Zoom link?

What did he propose as a solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What she's done is squeeze out the middle. We now have higher income folks who live in SFHs and the new glossy apartments like CIty Ridge and we have voucher holders. The apartments where families with fewer resouces used to live have either been redeveloped or inundated with voucher holders. That's the reality in Ward 3.

Isn’t City Ridge required to have to affordable housing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

But he refuses to call for a pause on the voucher program. This program is not responsible for 100% of the crime, but it is responsible for a lot of crime and unsavory activities in Ward 3.

And to the Connecticut corridor being the fastest growing crime area in all of DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

What meeting was that, PP? Is there a Zoom link?

What did he propose as a solution?

He doesn’t have a solution. He’s the wrong man at the worst time for this position. He just wanted to be liked and enjoy his career capper. We needed someone who was younger and willing to speak truth t power in the Wilson Building. That aint Frumin.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

But he refuses to call for a pause on the voucher program. This program is not responsible for 100% of the crime, but it is responsible for a lot of crime and unsavory activities in Ward 3.

And to the Connecticut corridor being the fastest growing crime area in all of DC.

Says who? This seems to be hyperbole.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting there is 16 pages on a stabbing in upper Caucasia but yet I rarely see postings of the shootings in Shaw or the murder of a child in SE.

Start a thread on it.

I moved to Ward 3 WOTP from Ward 2 EOTP for a better and safer neighborhood. I see nothing wrong with wanting that. Now the neighborhood is not living up to the reasons why I move here, so I have to think about the next move. People want to live in safe places. How about making the rest of DC safer rather than trying to make the safe part less safe as some sort of exercise in equity?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

What meeting was that, PP? Is there a Zoom link?

What did he propose as a solution?

He doesn’t have a solution. He’s the wrong man at the worst time for this position. He just wanted to be liked and enjoy his career capper. We needed someone who was younger and willing to speak truth t power in the Wilson Building. That aint Frumin.

It has nothing to do with age. Nadeau and Allen are on the younger side of the DC Council but they are responsible for some of the misguided laws that aided and abetted the DC crime explosion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

What meeting was that, PP? Is there a Zoom link?

What did he propose as a solution?

He doesn’t have a solution. He’s the wrong man at the worst time for this position. He just wanted to be liked and enjoy his career capper. We needed someone who was younger and willing to speak truth t power in the Wilson Building. That aint Frumin.

It has nothing to do with age. Nadeau and Allen are on the younger side of the DC Council but they are responsible for some of the misguided laws that aided and abetted the DC crime explosion.

It does have to do with his age. He’s low energy and not up for this fight. He thinks he can “nice” his way to a solution on the Council. They are going to continue to screw W3 with more vouchers. And just wait for the school boundary revision.

[Anonymous]

Bowser’s seriously misguided voucher program has added much fuel to the crime spike west of Rock Creek Park. But unlike some other DC local politicos, at least Bowser acknowledges a big crime problem in Washington and has offered some modest proposals to address it. Some other DC office holders want to cover their eyes and ears and act like it’s still the spring of 2020. They are in La-La Land. Oh wait, crime rates are starting to go down in LA as in most other US cities. But not in DC, where crime is getting worse and worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting there is 16 pages on a stabbing in upper Caucasia but yet I rarely see postings of the shootings in Shaw or the murder of a child in SE.

Start a thread on it.

I moved to Ward 3 WOTP from Ward 2 EOTP for a better and safer neighborhood. I see nothing wrong with wanting that. Now the neighborhood is not living up to the reasons why I move here, so I have to think about the next move. People want to live in safe places. How about making the rest of DC safer rather than trying to make the safe part less safe as some sort of exercise in equity?

This is the crime version of the achievement gap problem in our schools. Post-Fenty the solution has been to drag the top down.

They do this because it is easy and they are very stupid people who are incapable of solving the difficult problems. And they have marks like the voters in this town who swallow it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

But he refuses to call for a pause on the voucher program. This program is not responsible for 100% of the crime, but it is responsible for a lot of crime and unsavory activities in Ward 3.

And to the Connecticut corridor being the fastest growing crime area in all of DC.

Says who? This seems to be hyperbole.

Year-to-date Ward 3 is up 48 percent.
https://crimecards.dc.gov/all:crimes/all:weap...0to%20date/in:Ward:3

See below for the Connecticut Ave corridor:

Year-to-date total crime in ANC 3C (Cleveland Park) has more than doubled (i.e. up more than 100 percent).
https://crimecards.dc.gov/all:crimes/all:weap...0to%20date/in:ANC:3C


Year-to-date total crime in ANC 3F (Forest Hills) is up 55 percent over last year.
https://crimecards.dc.gov/all:crimes/all:weap...0to%20date/in:ANC:3F

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frumin seems to at least understand the scale of the problem. He said at a meeting last night that DC has never been this bad in terms of crime.

What meeting was that, PP? Is there a Zoom link?

What did he propose as a solution?

He doesn’t have a solution. He’s the wrong man at the worst time for this position. He just wanted to be liked and enjoy his career capper. We needed someone who was younger and willing to speak truth t power in the Wilson Building. That aint Frumin.

It has nothing to do with age. Nadeau and Allen are on the younger side of the DC Council but they are responsible for some of the misguided laws that aided and abetted the DC crime explosion.

It does have to do with his age. He’s low energy and not up for this fight. He thinks he can “nice” his way to a solution on the Council. They are going to continue to screw W3 with more vouchers. And just wait for the school boundary revision.

What’s with the ageism? You can be low energy at any age.