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

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have details on what happened at the Tenley CVS? I don't know why CVS puts up with this. They should close. And I say this as a nearby resident who can't believe how people treat this store and its employees.

Another smash and grab last night.

Could DC for a change start smashing crime and grabbing criminals?

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So let me get this straight--are people allowed to sleep in ATMs in DC and the police or homeless services can't move them along? As a woman that makes me feel really unsafe that I am supposed to go into this locked space with someone I don't know and pull out money. I would imagine a man or teen too, but speaking for myself as a woman.

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Anonymous wrote:You sure have put a lot of thought into this issue. Sounds like you've got a "final solution" for the homelessness epidemic! Maybe instead of 24/7 confinement we could enact a compromise, they can leave if they have jobs but otherwise need to stay in the camp. We could come up with a catchy slogan to get the word out, like "work will make you free."

Your belief that preventing people from camping on public sidewalks is comparable to the holocaust is a pretty good demonstration of how far this city has fallen.

Yeah, how could anybody think that rounding up "undesirables" and forcibly putting them into prison camps is even remotely comparable to the holocaust?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how could anybody think that rounding up "undesirables" and forcibly putting them into prison camps is even remotely comparable to the holocaust?

Let's look at what the person actually wrote, not what's in your imagination:

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.

Yes, when someone thinks a shelter with medical care and vocational training is comparable to the holocaust just because it has security, they're pretty far off the deep end.

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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.

You sure have put a lot of thought into this issue. Sounds like you've got a "final solution" for the homelessness epidemic! Maybe instead of 24/7 confinement we could enact a compromise, they can leave if they have jobs but otherwise need to stay in the camp. We could come up with a catchy slogan to get the word out, like "work will make you free."

Where did newsom send his problematic unhoused in advance of brother xi’s visit? Chevy chase pavilion?

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how could anybody think that rounding up "undesirables" and forcibly putting them into prison camps is even remotely comparable to the holocaust?

Let's look at what the person actually wrote, not what's in your imagination:

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.

Yes, when someone thinks a shelter with medical care and vocational training is comparable to the holocaust just because it has security, they're pretty far off the deep end.

Way off the deep end and possibly in need of services.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how could anybody think that rounding up "undesirables" and forcibly putting them into prison camps is even remotely comparable to the holocaust?

Let's look at what the person actually wrote, not what's in your imagination:

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.

Yes, when someone thinks a shelter with medical care and vocational training is comparable to the holocaust just because it has security, they're pretty far off the deep end.

Way off the deep end and possibly in need of services.

The antisemitism makes it a DC progressive twofer.

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Apparently the guy who has taken residence at the park across Wisconsin from the Pete's Pizza died overnight from exposure.. at least, that is what I saw on Nextdoor. He'd been living in that park for a couple of years now. A few others of the unhoused on Wisconsin have been there for many years as well. How does DC actually get these people the help and shelter that they so desperately need?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the guy who has taken residence at the park across Wisconsin from the Pete's Pizza died overnight from exposure.. at least, that is what I saw on Nextdoor. He'd been living in that park for a couple of years now. A few others of the unhoused on Wisconsin have been there for many years as well. How does DC actually get these people the help and shelter that they so desperately need?

https://nextdoor.com/p/5nKKhWDc_L2t?utm_source=share&extras=NzMwMDk0MzA%3D

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Anonymous wrote:So let me get this straight--are people allowed to sleep in ATMs in DC and the police or homeless services can't move them along? As a woman that makes me feel really unsafe that I am supposed to go into this locked space with someone I don't know and pull out money. I would imagine a man or teen too, but speaking for myself as a woman.

A business can legally trespass someone on their property and have them removed and barred from returning.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, how could anybody think that rounding up "undesirables" and forcibly putting them into prison camps is even remotely comparable to the holocaust?

Let's look at what the person actually wrote, not what's in your imagination:

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.

Yes, when someone thinks a shelter with medical care and vocational training is comparable to the holocaust just because it has security, they're pretty far off the deep end.

They could also give them the option and freedom of going to live in a different municipality that has different rules. The Nazis certainly didn't do that.

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Anonymous wrote:So let me get this straight--are people allowed to sleep in ATMs in DC and the police or homeless services can't move them along? As a woman that makes me feel really unsafe that I am supposed to go into this locked space with someone I don't know and pull out money. I would imagine a man or teen too, but speaking for myself as a woman.

A business can legally trespass someone on their property and have them removed and barred from returning.

Why is that person in wells fargo then? They were in it yesterday.

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Anonymous wrote:So let me get this straight--are people allowed to sleep in ATMs in DC and the police or homeless services can't move them along? As a woman that makes me feel really unsafe that I am supposed to go into this locked space with someone I don't know and pull out money. I would imagine a man or teen too, but speaking for myself as a woman.

A business can legally trespass someone on their property and have them removed and barred from returning.

Why is that person in wells fargo then? They were in it yesterday.

Apparently DC has decided that the flasher-vagrant is a legally protected squatter. Welcome to the District of Absurdia.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the guy who has taken residence at the park across Wisconsin from the Pete's Pizza died overnight from exposure.. at least, that is what I saw on Nextdoor. He'd been living in that park for a couple of years now. A few others of the unhoused on Wisconsin have been there for many years as well. How does DC actually get these people the help and shelter that they so desperately need?

Where did you get the cause of death?

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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 ?

vibrant urbanism

I am harassed and panhandled by very single day in DC. I just pray that the person doesn’t get aggressive but it’s no way to live. It happens all over city but getting out of metro and walking home and being harassed is the worst.

Enough of this, when will we get bike lanes on Connecticut?