‘The city is dead’: D.C. restaurant reservations drop amid federal crackdown

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Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

Flawed database PP.

The Washington Post’s now-shuttered Fatal Force database — ‘designed to inform or inflame?’

https://www.americanexperiment.org/the-washington-posts-now-shuttered-fatal-force-database-designed-to-inform-or-inflame/

+1. Can’t believe you cited a study from the far right Washington Post. You don’t live here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When I didn’t have work projects in DC, I was still down there weekly but the costs to get there, pay for parking/take Metro (especially if I’m taking my kids), and high food prices post-COVID hasn’t made it worth going. This didn’t start with trump but it may well end with him. With the exception of the National Mall area, DC is just another small, dull American city. Maybe move the Capitol to the middle of the country and start over. At least then maybe it would create jobs there too and spread the wealth around.

You clearly don't spend ANY time in DC if you believe this.

Washington is nothing like most national capitals. It’s not even in the top 10 most populous cities. Tell me, if DC did not have the national Mall with its museums/monuments and wasn't the seat of the federal government, what would attract people to the city over Chicago, New York, etc? It lost something with the white-ification.

DC's population is artificially limited by the geographic boundaries set by the Organic Act and further reduced by Virginia's retrocession. If DC had been allowed to expand its boundaries as it developed as nearly every other city was we'd have probably 4-5 million residents. There is virtually no distinction in terms of population and development on the the respective sides of Eastern, Southern, and Western Avenues.

Our metro area has 6.4 million people, putting us at #7 which is a far more accurate way to classify our population.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

+1. In 2020 the narrative was that black folks had to give their sons “the talk”. Meanwhile, in reality, the talk should have been about other black men.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

More often than note, those 100,000 were involved in the drug trade or domestic violence. There isn't a lot of "random" shooting. And on the police statistic, now calibrate that to "per capita" rather than raw numbers.

[Anonymous]

Restaurant food that I can actually afford always sucks, waiters are annoying, incredibly overpriced, stuck sitting next to drunk idiots and crying kids. Much easier to fire up the grill and serve myself a drink at home peacefully.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andy Shallal reported revenues down at his stablishments significantly since the militarization of the city.

Ironically, he was a vocal defund the police cheerleader. Which basically got us into this current mess.

Except for 1) the only defunding of police has happened when the GOP refuses to vote for federal spending bills. There has not been any defunding of police in DC otehr than the GOP cutting the DC budget this spring so we can't spend our own money and 2) the whole "defund the police' manta was borne out of frustration over the police killing black people. Are you ok with police just killing people extrajudiciously?

In reality, between 2015 and 2024, American police shot and killed about 180 unarmed black people (and 222 white people), according to a database from the Washington Post. Over the same period, close to 100,000 black people died of homicide. But, let’s keep going with your plan.

More often than note, those 100,000 were involved in the drug trade or domestic violence. There isn't a lot of "random" shooting. And on the police statistic, now calibrate that to "per capita" rather than raw numbers.

Yup. Nothing to see here. Move along.