Two child homicides in Cleveland Park/Van Ness apartment buildings in eight days

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Did DC voucher give him free parking too?
Must be nice

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Two police cars with lights on in front on Connecticut House right now. Stay safe people.

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Anonymous wrote:Two police cars with lights on in front on Connecticut House right now. Stay safe people.

Some of the people in this thread want that. And for people like Bowser and Frumin, one of the goals of the voucher program as it stands is to punish Ward 3 (renters only; not those rich enough to own homes).

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Anonymous wrote:Chen supporting one made no difference, I did not vote for Frumin but this is so far beyond him. Cheh’s comments outside Days Inn did likely bump her from office. Predates him by at least a decade+. Chen even got social workers put in Sedgwick Gardens for a time, voucher tenants did not engage. Without the threat of losing the voucher, no effective curbs on behavior. Public housing you can be kicked out and banned. With vouchers, crime, you get moved from Sedgwick Gardens to Brandywine. Do not pay your share, move from Brandywine to Saratoga or Connecticut House.

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But Frump owns it now. He has been negligent or worse on this issue, and it's the vulnerable poor children in these families who are suffering the most

It's not about how the rent is paid but about how children are not protected from known to be violent men. Had they lived in public housing in SE, poor DeAndre would be just as dead.

Frumin is on the housing committee. Still, press him to address CPS laxity and to push USAO to protect women and kids from violent men.

If the children were homeless or in public housing still would not help them. I get that you hate Frumin and I'm not a fan, but your focus on housing is not going to help kids like DeAndre.

Violent men do not need "services" that they are not even required to participate in. They need to be REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY.

I wonder about this. One of the consequences of “equity” and sending voucher recipients to Ward 3 is that communities are broken up. Maybe if these kids were in Anacostia the neighborhood church ladies would have looked out for them. Or the school more attuned to signs of abuse and less scared of being labeled “Karens.” Or even relatives around to check in.

This is despicable derailing nonsense. Plenty of toddlers and children are being terrorized across DC and anyone with half a brain can come up with two dozen reasons why “sending voucher recipients to Ward 3” would actually help the respective families get the services (including MPD attention) they need to find a way out of their horror. But on balance, vouchers had nothing to do with this. Stop exploiting the deaths of two children to advocate for push your own pet policy preferences, which seem to almost exclusively serve the goal of keeping all the dysfunction in DC sequestered in EOTR neighborhoods.

Vouchers have everything to do with the blight and crime that have be fallen the Connecticut Ave corridor. It’s you who are using the death of these poor kids to stifle an uncomfortable conversation. The city has had years to fix this. Time is up.

So you are solely focused on what impacts you and not failures by USAO and CFS that have directly led to the brutal deaths of many kids in DC? Your priority is to highjack focus on dead kids to focus on where they were when killed? Journee was a MD resident. If they died elsewhere, no prob?

There have been dozens of threads on here about vouchers, even more community meetings and hearings. Stifled?

Their deaths were not due to housing. Letting USAO and CFS skate, stifling THAT life and death discussion because you think it will never impact you, when these kids are barely cold is something.

I was also surprised 911 answered promptly and sent help to the correct address, not a given, and hasn’t been for many years.

Well I’ll play your game.

Dad applies for voucher.
Dad gets denied voucher.
Dad cannot house his children.
CPS takes children away and puts into foster care.
Dad does not murder his child.


It’s actually quite easy to see how the voucher plays in here.

We can agree to disagree on whether vouchers are appropriate in well established buildings where families and elderly live. For the record, I don’t think they are. Mixing violent criminals with children and elderly is never a good idea.

And we both agree that the DC child welfare system is wholly inadequate.

Let’s see what we can do with this logic . . .

1. Protected bike lanes are built on CT Ave, as was previously decided many moons ago by DDOT

2. Families living along CT Ave have an safe alternative to using their vehicles to run errands in the neighborhood and around NW DC

3. Deandre Pettus is not reliant on his car for running errands etc.

4. Deandre doesn’t suffer the frustration of being immobilized due to a flat car battery and so never gets angry that morning.

5. Deandre Pettus doesn’t beat his son to death.

You might find the assumptions underlying this hypothetical chain of events to be ridiculous, but those assumptions are no less so than your own.

Just like you don’t see bicycle safety advocates exploiting the deaths of these two children to call out the NIMBYs for blocking the CT Ave bike lane, you should similarly exhibit a modicum of decency and refrain from trying to make stupid arguments about how the tragic deaths of these two children were caused by DC residents using housing vouchers to move to Upper NW.

What a hilarious self-own from a typically ghoulish GGWash mouth-breather.

Predictably, you lack the self-awareness to realize that it is your own self-centered non-sensical arguments that are in fact being taken to the cleaners.

Says the person who has -- in the guise of a hypothetical -- inserted their demand for bike lanes into discussion of the killing of a young child by a parent.

Please seek help. You're sick.

You - and/or your ilk - have been demanding for pages that Frumin put a pause on the use of housing vouchers in Ward 3. Those demands are apparently serious.

Since you apparently can’t figure it out for yourself, I’ll have to spell it out for you. No one is making a serious argument that the deaths of the children were due to a lack of bike lanes. That would be ridiculous.

What they are showing is that the logic of tying these deaths to the voucher program is just as ridiculous and just as offensive.

I trust that you now understand how sick it is to exploit these deaths for pet causes.

The voucher program brought violent criminals—like a man who could kill his own child—into the building where I lived with my family. It doesn’t affect someone like Frumin, so he’s glad it happened.

People like you have contempt for regular working families, so you’re glad it happened too.

Making an argument that vouchers given to others reduces your quality of life is a fine argument.

But it’s a very different argument than one that suggests that vouchers resulted in the kid being killed.

I don’t take issue with your opposition to vouchers housing people in your neighborhood.

But to exploit the death of a child to try to make your life better - which distracts from the factors that actually contributed to his death - is sick.

I’m not sure what part of this you fail to understand. Vouchers helped cause this. DC, by pushing housing of the most vulnerable to the private sector and removing oversight, and at the same time removing the private sector’s legal ability to exercise its own oversight, created unsafe an chaotic housing conditions that led directly to this. DC decided that equity (in the form of sn above market voucher system) was more important than safety.

You’ve constructed an elaborate scenario to confirm an obsessive against voucher holders in NW that you held well before this tragic incident. That scenario is based on complete nonsense. You have absolutely no understanding of the life of this family or any other families that benefit from vouchers. Your prognostications of what would have happened in the absence of being extended a housing voucher are pulled straight from a place where the sun don’t shine. You are an embarrassment to discourse. Please stop.

It’s not “elaborate” to anyone but you.

Elaborate was kind. Utter bullshit is more accurate.

I don’t know how you sleep at night with the knowledge that you exploit the deaths of dead kids to keep voucher recipients out of your neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Chen supporting one made no difference, I did not vote for Frumin but this is so far beyond him. Cheh’s comments outside Days Inn did likely bump her from office. Predates him by at least a decade+. Chen even got social workers put in Sedgwick Gardens for a time, voucher tenants did not engage. Without the threat of losing the voucher, no effective curbs on behavior. Public housing you can be kicked out and banned. With vouchers, crime, you get moved from Sedgwick Gardens to Brandywine. Do not pay your share, move from Brandywine to Saratoga or Connecticut House.

Truth

But Frump owns it now. He has been negligent or worse on this issue, and it's the vulnerable poor children in these families who are suffering the most

It's not about how the rent is paid but about how children are not protected from known to be violent men. Had they lived in public housing in SE, poor DeAndre would be just as dead.

Frumin is on the housing committee. Still, press him to address CPS laxity and to push USAO to protect women and kids from violent men.

If the children were homeless or in public housing still would not help them. I get that you hate Frumin and I'm not a fan, but your focus on housing is not going to help kids like DeAndre.

Violent men do not need "services" that they are not even required to participate in. They need to be REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY.

I wonder about this. One of the consequences of “equity” and sending voucher recipients to Ward 3 is that communities are broken up. Maybe if these kids were in Anacostia the neighborhood church ladies would have looked out for them. Or the school more attuned to signs of abuse and less scared of being labeled “Karens.” Or even relatives around to check in.

This is despicable derailing nonsense. Plenty of toddlers and children are being terrorized across DC and anyone with half a brain can come up with two dozen reasons why “sending voucher recipients to Ward 3” would actually help the respective families get the services (including MPD attention) they need to find a way out of their horror. But on balance, vouchers had nothing to do with this. Stop exploiting the deaths of two children to advocate for push your own pet policy preferences, which seem to almost exclusively serve the goal of keeping all the dysfunction in DC sequestered in EOTR neighborhoods.

Vouchers have everything to do with the blight and crime that have be fallen the Connecticut Ave corridor. It’s you who are using the death of these poor kids to stifle an uncomfortable conversation. The city has had years to fix this. Time is up.

So you are solely focused on what impacts you and not failures by USAO and CFS that have directly led to the brutal deaths of many kids in DC? Your priority is to highjack focus on dead kids to focus on where they were when killed? Journee was a MD resident. If they died elsewhere, no prob?

There have been dozens of threads on here about vouchers, even more community meetings and hearings. Stifled?

Their deaths were not due to housing. Letting USAO and CFS skate, stifling THAT life and death discussion because you think it will never impact you, when these kids are barely cold is something.

I was also surprised 911 answered promptly and sent help to the correct address, not a given, and hasn’t been for many years.

Well I’ll play your game.

Dad applies for voucher.
Dad gets denied voucher.
Dad cannot house his children.
CPS takes children away and puts into foster care.
Dad does not murder his child.


It’s actually quite easy to see how the voucher plays in here.

We can agree to disagree on whether vouchers are appropriate in well established buildings where families and elderly live. For the record, I don’t think they are. Mixing violent criminals with children and elderly is never a good idea.

And we both agree that the DC child welfare system is wholly inadequate.

Let’s see what we can do with this logic . . .

1. Protected bike lanes are built on CT Ave, as was previously decided many moons ago by DDOT

2. Families living along CT Ave have an safe alternative to using their vehicles to run errands in the neighborhood and around NW DC

3. Deandre Pettus is not reliant on his car for running errands etc.

4. Deandre doesn’t suffer the frustration of being immobilized due to a flat car battery and so never gets angry that morning.

5. Deandre Pettus doesn’t beat his son to death.

You might find the assumptions underlying this hypothetical chain of events to be ridiculous, but those assumptions are no less so than your own.

Just like you don’t see bicycle safety advocates exploiting the deaths of these two children to call out the NIMBYs for blocking the CT Ave bike lane, you should similarly exhibit a modicum of decency and refrain from trying to make stupid arguments about how the tragic deaths of these two children were caused by DC residents using housing vouchers to move to Upper NW.

What a hilarious self-own from a typically ghoulish GGWash mouth-breather.

Predictably, you lack the self-awareness to realize that it is your own self-centered non-sensical arguments that are in fact being taken to the cleaners.

Says the person who has -- in the guise of a hypothetical -- inserted their demand for bike lanes into discussion of the killing of a young child by a parent.

Please seek help. You're sick.

You - and/or your ilk - have been demanding for pages that Frumin put a pause on the use of housing vouchers in Ward 3. Those demands are apparently serious.

Since you apparently can’t figure it out for yourself, I’ll have to spell it out for you. No one is making a serious argument that the deaths of the children were due to a lack of bike lanes. That would be ridiculous.

What they are showing is that the logic of tying these deaths to the voucher program is just as ridiculous and just as offensive.

I trust that you now understand how sick it is to exploit these deaths for pet causes.

The voucher program brought violent criminals—like a man who could kill his own child—into the building where I lived with my family. It doesn’t affect someone like Frumin, so he’s glad it happened.

People like you have contempt for regular working families, so you’re glad it happened too.

Making an argument that vouchers given to others reduces your quality of life is a fine argument.

But it’s a very different argument than one that suggests that vouchers resulted in the kid being killed.

I don’t take issue with your opposition to vouchers housing people in your neighborhood.

But to exploit the death of a child to try to make your life better - which distracts from the factors that actually contributed to his death - is sick.

I’m not sure what part of this you fail to understand. Vouchers helped cause this. DC, by pushing housing of the most vulnerable to the private sector and removing oversight, and at the same time removing the private sector’s legal ability to exercise its own oversight, created unsafe an chaotic housing conditions that led directly to this. DC decided that equity (in the form of sn above market voucher system) was more important than safety.

You’ve constructed an elaborate scenario to confirm an obsessive against voucher holders in NW that you held well before this tragic incident. That scenario is based on complete nonsense. You have absolutely no understanding of the life of this family or any other families that benefit from vouchers. Your prognostications of what would have happened in the absence of being extended a housing voucher are pulled straight from a place where the sun don’t shine. You are an embarrassment to discourse. Please stop.

It’s not “elaborate” to anyone but you.

Elaborate was kind. Utter bullshit is more accurate.

I don’t know how you sleep at night with the knowledge that you exploit the deaths of dead kids to keep voucher recipients out of your neighborhood.

I left the neighborhood because I could t sleep at night in it as my building descended into crime and chaos. I don’t know how you, Frumin, Bowser eta all can think it is right to inflict that on people.

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Anonymous wrote:Chen supporting one made no difference, I did not vote for Frumin but this is so far beyond him. Cheh’s comments outside Days Inn did likely bump her from office. Predates him by at least a decade+. Chen even got social workers put in Sedgwick Gardens for a time, voucher tenants did not engage. Without the threat of losing the voucher, no effective curbs on behavior. Public housing you can be kicked out and banned. With vouchers, crime, you get moved from Sedgwick Gardens to Brandywine. Do not pay your share, move from Brandywine to Saratoga or Connecticut House.

Truth

But Frump owns it now. He has been negligent or worse on this issue, and it's the vulnerable poor children in these families who are suffering the most

It's not about how the rent is paid but about how children are not protected from known to be violent men. Had they lived in public housing in SE, poor DeAndre would be just as dead.

Frumin is on the housing committee. Still, press him to address CPS laxity and to push USAO to protect women and kids from violent men.

If the children were homeless or in public housing still would not help them. I get that you hate Frumin and I'm not a fan, but your focus on housing is not going to help kids like DeAndre.

Violent men do not need "services" that they are not even required to participate in. They need to be REMOVED FROM THE COMMUNITY.

I wonder about this. One of the consequences of “equity” and sending voucher recipients to Ward 3 is that communities are broken up. Maybe if these kids were in Anacostia the neighborhood church ladies would have looked out for them. Or the school more attuned to signs of abuse and less scared of being labeled “Karens.” Or even relatives around to check in.

This is despicable derailing nonsense. Plenty of toddlers and children are being terrorized across DC and anyone with half a brain can come up with two dozen reasons why “sending voucher recipients to Ward 3” would actually help the respective families get the services (including MPD attention) they need to find a way out of their horror. But on balance, vouchers had nothing to do with this. Stop exploiting the deaths of two children to advocate for push your own pet policy preferences, which seem to almost exclusively serve the goal of keeping all the dysfunction in DC sequestered in EOTR neighborhoods.

Vouchers have everything to do with the blight and crime that have be fallen the Connecticut Ave corridor. It’s you who are using the death of these poor kids to stifle an uncomfortable conversation. The city has had years to fix this. Time is up.

So you are solely focused on what impacts you and not failures by USAO and CFS that have directly led to the brutal deaths of many kids in DC? Your priority is to highjack focus on dead kids to focus on where they were when killed? Journee was a MD resident. If they died elsewhere, no prob?

There have been dozens of threads on here about vouchers, even more community meetings and hearings. Stifled?

Their deaths were not due to housing. Letting USAO and CFS skate, stifling THAT life and death discussion because you think it will never impact you, when these kids are barely cold is something.

I was also surprised 911 answered promptly and sent help to the correct address, not a given, and hasn’t been for many years.

Well I’ll play your game.

Dad applies for voucher.
Dad gets denied voucher.
Dad cannot house his children.
CPS takes children away and puts into foster care.
Dad does not murder his child.


It’s actually quite easy to see how the voucher plays in here.

We can agree to disagree on whether vouchers are appropriate in well established buildings where families and elderly live. For the record, I don’t think they are. Mixing violent criminals with children and elderly is never a good idea.

And we both agree that the DC child welfare system is wholly inadequate.

Let’s see what we can do with this logic . . .

1. Protected bike lanes are built on CT Ave, as was previously decided many moons ago by DDOT

2. Families living along CT Ave have an safe alternative to using their vehicles to run errands in the neighborhood and around NW DC

3. Deandre Pettus is not reliant on his car for running errands etc.

4. Deandre doesn’t suffer the frustration of being immobilized due to a flat car battery and so never gets angry that morning.

5. Deandre Pettus doesn’t beat his son to death.

You might find the assumptions underlying this hypothetical chain of events to be ridiculous, but those assumptions are no less so than your own.

Just like you don’t see bicycle safety advocates exploiting the deaths of these two children to call out the NIMBYs for blocking the CT Ave bike lane, you should similarly exhibit a modicum of decency and refrain from trying to make stupid arguments about how the tragic deaths of these two children were caused by DC residents using housing vouchers to move to Upper NW.

What a hilarious self-own from a typically ghoulish GGWash mouth-breather.

Predictably, you lack the self-awareness to realize that it is your own self-centered non-sensical arguments that are in fact being taken to the cleaners.

Says the person who has -- in the guise of a hypothetical -- inserted their demand for bike lanes into discussion of the killing of a young child by a parent.

Please seek help. You're sick.

You - and/or your ilk - have been demanding for pages that Frumin put a pause on the use of housing vouchers in Ward 3. Those demands are apparently serious.

Since you apparently can’t figure it out for yourself, I’ll have to spell it out for you. No one is making a serious argument that the deaths of the children were due to a lack of bike lanes. That would be ridiculous.

What they are showing is that the logic of tying these deaths to the voucher program is just as ridiculous and just as offensive.

I trust that you now understand how sick it is to exploit these deaths for pet causes.

The voucher program brought violent criminals—like a man who could kill his own child—into the building where I lived with my family. It doesn’t affect someone like Frumin, so he’s glad it happened.

People like you have contempt for regular working families, so you’re glad it happened too.

Making an argument that vouchers given to others reduces your quality of life is a fine argument.

But it’s a very different argument than one that suggests that vouchers resulted in the kid being killed.

I don’t take issue with your opposition to vouchers housing people in your neighborhood.

But to exploit the death of a child to try to make your life better - which distracts from the factors that actually contributed to his death - is sick.

I’m not sure what part of this you fail to understand. Vouchers helped cause this. DC, by pushing housing of the most vulnerable to the private sector and removing oversight, and at the same time removing the private sector’s legal ability to exercise its own oversight, created unsafe an chaotic housing conditions that led directly to this. DC decided that equity (in the form of sn above market voucher system) was more important than safety.

You’ve constructed an elaborate scenario to confirm an obsessive against voucher holders in NW that you held well before this tragic incident. That scenario is based on complete nonsense. You have absolutely no understanding of the life of this family or any other families that benefit from vouchers. Your prognostications of what would have happened in the absence of being extended a housing voucher are pulled straight from a place where the sun don’t shine. You are an embarrassment to discourse. Please stop.

It’s not “elaborate” to anyone but you.

Elaborate was kind. Utter bullshit is more accurate.

I don’t know how you sleep at night with the knowledge that you exploit the deaths of dead kids to keep voucher recipients out of your neighborhood.

I think you are conflating ‘exploiting’ with supporting with facts

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Anonymous wrote:Those very young kids have had a lot of exposure to violence.

Per Housing First/HUD guidelines, even committing a crime in the apartment does not necessarily result in the loss of the voucher. The prior felony DV charge took place in same apt in Connecticut House. CPS should have been keeping an eye on those kids, so foreseeable that this violent man could harm them. The argument with the girlfriend was said to be about the kids, likely re: his treatment of them. So he punched her in the mouth and threatened to shoot her. Other residents have stay away orders against him. The kids were defenseless.

Hope the girls are with someone safe.

Now, all 650 students at their school have also had exposure to the kind of violence families worked hard to earn the money to move to this part of the city to avoid. Truth.

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now. No one wants violence to happen. And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents. Moving people around doesn't substitute for mental health, social services, and a strong criminal justice system.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

Your three paragraphs reduce neatly to, “I want my safe little Upper NW cocoon back!”

I didn’t think I’d ever encounter the argument that ghettoes are the solution to urban violence, but you’ve yet again set a new bar for nonsense-on-DCUM.

I can’t see a lot of good coming out of this horrific event, but I still hope that having it happen so close to you may, just maybe, inspire you to hold the DC mayor and Council accountable for the disastrous performance of CFSA and other institutions that serve populations less fortunate than yourself.

No, that's not what I'm saying. Save your outrage. Read better.

It is what you are saying. Here, I’ll explain it to you.

You say:

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now.

You are complaining that vouchers have made life in your neighborhood worse for you. That may be the case, but it’s a massive stretch to argue that the lives of voucher recipients are worse off.

And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents.

But it’s OK if these things happen in another part of the city? Because they would have and, in fact, do on a regular basis.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

. . . which leads us to the corollary that those receiving voucher recipients would be better off - because they could more efficiently receive services - if they were all clustered together in one part of the city, that is, in a ghetto.

If I’m missing something here, please enlighten us as to what you really meant. I really don’t want to believe that there are people who seriously advocate ghettoization in 2024.

A 5 year old is DEAD because his father was handed a no-strings-attached housing voucher instead of being subjected to oversight like he should have been. It’s only you who are stigmatizing all-black neighborhoods as “ghettos.” What that family needed was intensive social services and eyes on them. Instead they got a NW voucher because “equity” was the most important value.

The failure to prosecute him for felony dev was fed USAO which DC has no control over.

Reunification and ending supervision too soon was CFSA, controlled by DC with Council oversight.

CFSA oversight is not part of Housing First. CFSA has oversight over all families in all types of housing, here their colossal failure resulted in another death. The argument used to be too many kids were removed, the pendulum has swung too far and needs course correction.

If concerned about kids, consider becoming certified as a foster parent, there are not nearly enough.

This guy NEVER should have been given a no-strings-attached voucher.

He will likely have that PSH voucher waiting should he ever be prosecuted, returning citizens are given preference. Kids or no kids.

What he should never have been given is custody. Too many kids are being left in harms way. And for those claiming a shelter is better, sure did not help Relisha Rudd.

It is highly likely that he was the only person in the immediate family that agreed to care for them. So foster care or dad.

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Anonymous wrote:Just heartbreaking. What a sweet little girl. And no arrest yet for her death. Both kids must have been terrified in their final moments. Maybe rewards for info in these cases needs to be higher?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/what-could-she-have-done-grandparents-mourn-girl-1-who-died-saturday-night/3733062/?os=vbkn42tqhoorjmxr5b&ref=app

Oh my gosh, she is so precious. How could anyone kill a child like this. They are so absolutely defenseless at that age.

This is incredibly sad. I don't understand why there has not been an arrest in the Journee case and why the little boy's Dad is not in jail.

DeAndre Pettus is not in jail due to the incompetence of the ME's office and the lax on crime federal USAO who did not even ask for GPS monitoring when prompted by the judge. Of course that is only actually monitored M-F 9-5, so much in this city is a life threatening joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Those very young kids have had a lot of exposure to violence.

Per Housing First/HUD guidelines, even committing a crime in the apartment does not necessarily result in the loss of the voucher. The prior felony DV charge took place in same apt in Connecticut House. CPS should have been keeping an eye on those kids, so foreseeable that this violent man could harm them. The argument with the girlfriend was said to be about the kids, likely re: his treatment of them. So he punched her in the mouth and threatened to shoot her. Other residents have stay away orders against him. The kids were defenseless.

Hope the girls are with someone safe.

Now, all 650 students at their school have also had exposure to the kind of violence families worked hard to earn the money to move to this part of the city to avoid. Truth.

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now. No one wants violence to happen. And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents. Moving people around doesn't substitute for mental health, social services, and a strong criminal justice system.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

Your three paragraphs reduce neatly to, “I want my safe little Upper NW cocoon back!”

I didn’t think I’d ever encounter the argument that ghettoes are the solution to urban violence, but you’ve yet again set a new bar for nonsense-on-DCUM.

I can’t see a lot of good coming out of this horrific event, but I still hope that having it happen so close to you may, just maybe, inspire you to hold the DC mayor and Council accountable for the disastrous performance of CFSA and other institutions that serve populations less fortunate than yourself.

No, that's not what I'm saying. Save your outrage. Read better.

It is what you are saying. Here, I’ll explain it to you.

You say:

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now.

You are complaining that vouchers have made life in your neighborhood worse for you. That may be the case, but it’s a massive stretch to argue that the lives of voucher recipients are worse off.

And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents.

But it’s OK if these things happen in another part of the city? Because they would have and, in fact, do on a regular basis.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

. . . which leads us to the corollary that those receiving voucher recipients would be better off - because they could more efficiently receive services - if they were all clustered together in one part of the city, that is, in a ghetto.

If I’m missing something here, please enlighten us as to what you really meant. I really don’t want to believe that there are people who seriously advocate ghettoization in 2024.

A 5 year old is DEAD because his father was handed a no-strings-attached housing voucher instead of being subjected to oversight like he should have been. It’s only you who are stigmatizing all-black neighborhoods as “ghettos.” What that family needed was intensive social services and eyes on them. Instead they got a NW voucher because “equity” was the most important value.

The failure to prosecute him for felony dev was fed USAO which DC has no control over.

Reunification and ending supervision too soon was CFSA, controlled by DC with Council oversight.

CFSA oversight is not part of Housing First. CFSA has oversight over all families in all types of housing, here their colossal failure resulted in another death. The argument used to be too many kids were removed, the pendulum has swung too far and needs course correction.

If concerned about kids, consider becoming certified as a foster parent, there are not nearly enough.

This guy NEVER should have been given a no-strings-attached voucher.

He will likely have that PSH voucher waiting should he ever be prosecuted, returning citizens are given preference. Kids or no kids.

What he should never have been given is custody. Too many kids are being left in harms way. And for those claiming a shelter is better, sure did not help Relisha Rudd.

It is highly likely that he was the only person in the immediate family that agreed to care for them. So foster care or dad.

The police chief referred to a mother and grandmother. Often violent men seek and get full custody as a final twist of the knife to the mom.

[Anonymous]

A carrot and stick approach was used re: landlords, big commercial ones and small private ones.

https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-announces-largest-civil-penalty-housing

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Anonymous wrote:Those very young kids have had a lot of exposure to violence.

Per Housing First/HUD guidelines, even committing a crime in the apartment does not necessarily result in the loss of the voucher. The prior felony DV charge took place in same apt in Connecticut House. CPS should have been keeping an eye on those kids, so foreseeable that this violent man could harm them. The argument with the girlfriend was said to be about the kids, likely re: his treatment of them. So he punched her in the mouth and threatened to shoot her. Other residents have stay away orders against him. The kids were defenseless.

Hope the girls are with someone safe.

Now, all 650 students at their school have also had exposure to the kind of violence families worked hard to earn the money to move to this part of the city to avoid. Truth.

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now. No one wants violence to happen. And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents. Moving people around doesn't substitute for mental health, social services, and a strong criminal justice system.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

Your three paragraphs reduce neatly to, “I want my safe little Upper NW cocoon back!”

I didn’t think I’d ever encounter the argument that ghettoes are the solution to urban violence, but you’ve yet again set a new bar for nonsense-on-DCUM.

I can’t see a lot of good coming out of this horrific event, but I still hope that having it happen so close to you may, just maybe, inspire you to hold the DC mayor and Council accountable for the disastrous performance of CFSA and other institutions that serve populations less fortunate than yourself.

No, that's not what I'm saying. Save your outrage. Read better.

It is what you are saying. Here, I’ll explain it to you.

You say:

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now.

You are complaining that vouchers have made life in your neighborhood worse for you. That may be the case, but it’s a massive stretch to argue that the lives of voucher recipients are worse off.

And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents.

But it’s OK if these things happen in another part of the city? Because they would have and, in fact, do on a regular basis.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

. . . which leads us to the corollary that those receiving voucher recipients would be better off - because they could more efficiently receive services - if they were all clustered together in one part of the city, that is, in a ghetto.

If I’m missing something here, please enlighten us as to what you really meant. I really don’t want to believe that there are people who seriously advocate ghettoization in 2024.

A 5 year old is DEAD because his father was handed a no-strings-attached housing voucher instead of being subjected to oversight like he should have been. It’s only you who are stigmatizing all-black neighborhoods as “ghettos.” What that family needed was intensive social services and eyes on them. Instead they got a NW voucher because “equity” was the most important value.

The failure to prosecute him for felony dev was fed USAO which DC has no control over.

Reunification and ending supervision too soon was CFSA, controlled by DC with Council oversight.

CFSA oversight is not part of Housing First. CFSA has oversight over all families in all types of housing, here their colossal failure resulted in another death. The argument used to be too many kids were removed, the pendulum has swung too far and needs course correction.

If concerned about kids, consider becoming certified as a foster parent, there are not nearly enough.

This guy NEVER should have been given a no-strings-attached voucher.

He will likely have that PSH voucher waiting should he ever be prosecuted, returning citizens are given preference. Kids or no kids.

What he should never have been given is custody. Too many kids are being left in harms way. And for those claiming a shelter is better, sure did not help Relisha Rudd.

It is highly likely that he was the only person in the immediate family that agreed to care for them. So foster care or dad.

You know nothing about this family. Please stop making up scenarios, especially ones that paint a monster who killed a kindergartner with his BARE HANDS out to be some kind of savior or hero.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Those very young kids have had a lot of exposure to violence.

Per Housing First/HUD guidelines, even committing a crime in the apartment does not necessarily result in the loss of the voucher. The prior felony DV charge took place in same apt in Connecticut House. CPS should have been keeping an eye on those kids, so foreseeable that this violent man could harm them. The argument with the girlfriend was said to be about the kids, likely re: his treatment of them. So he punched her in the mouth and threatened to shoot her. Other residents have stay away orders against him. The kids were defenseless.

Hope the girls are with someone safe.

Now, all 650 students at their school have also had exposure to the kind of violence families worked hard to earn the money to move to this part of the city to avoid. Truth.

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now. No one wants violence to happen. And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents. Moving people around doesn't substitute for mental health, social services, and a strong criminal justice system.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

Your three paragraphs reduce neatly to, “I want my safe little Upper NW cocoon back!”

I didn’t think I’d ever encounter the argument that ghettoes are the solution to urban violence, but you’ve yet again set a new bar for nonsense-on-DCUM.

I can’t see a lot of good coming out of this horrific event, but I still hope that having it happen so close to you may, just maybe, inspire you to hold the DC mayor and Council accountable for the disastrous performance of CFSA and other institutions that serve populations less fortunate than yourself.

No, that's not what I'm saying. Save your outrage. Read better.

It is what you are saying. Here, I’ll explain it to you.

You say:

The irony is that the government seemed to have believed that moving violent people into safe neighborhoods would magically make their lives better, but the reality is that everyone's lives are worse now.

You are complaining that vouchers have made life in your neighborhood worse for you. That may be the case, but it’s a massive stretch to argue that the lives of voucher recipients are worse off.

And also, no one wants to live in a place where women are thrown out of windows and babies are murdered by their parents.

But it’s OK if these things happen in another part of the city? Because they would have and, in fact, do on a regular basis.

Spreading the problem adults around doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it a more widespread problem and thins out scare government resources in every area of the city.

. . . which leads us to the corollary that those receiving voucher recipients would be better off - because they could more efficiently receive services - if they were all clustered together in one part of the city, that is, in a ghetto.

If I’m missing something here, please enlighten us as to what you really meant. I really don’t want to believe that there are people who seriously advocate ghettoization in 2024.

A 5 year old is DEAD because his father was handed a no-strings-attached housing voucher instead of being subjected to oversight like he should have been. It’s only you who are stigmatizing all-black neighborhoods as “ghettos.” What that family needed was intensive social services and eyes on them. Instead they got a NW voucher because “equity” was the most important value.

The failure to prosecute him for felony dev was fed USAO which DC has no control over.

Reunification and ending supervision too soon was CFSA, controlled by DC with Council oversight.

CFSA oversight is not part of Housing First. CFSA has oversight over all families in all types of housing, here their colossal failure resulted in another death. The argument used to be too many kids were removed, the pendulum has swung too far and needs course correction.

If concerned about kids, consider becoming certified as a foster parent, there are not nearly enough.

This guy NEVER should have been given a no-strings-attached voucher.

He will likely have that PSH voucher waiting should he ever be prosecuted, returning citizens are given preference. Kids or no kids.

What he should never have been given is custody. Too many kids are being left in harms way. And for those claiming a shelter is better, sure did not help Relisha Rudd.

It is highly likely that he was the only person in the immediate family that agreed to care for them. So foster care or dad.

The police chief referred to a mother and grandmother. Often violent men seek and get full custody as a final twist of the knife to the mom.

Look that is wrong information. That does not describe this situation. And the grandmother is the dads mother.

[Anonymous]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/father-charged-after-5-year-old-son-dies-boy-remembered-as-vibrant-creative/ar-AA1rRjXy

This is a bit surprising, it's not that big of a building.

"The family home is in the Connecticut House Apartments, an eight-story building with a secure front entrance and lobby staff at Connecticut Avenue and Albemarle Street NW, in the North Cleveland Park area. Nearly a dozen residents going into and out of the building Tuesday said they did not know the family and were unaware of the boy’s death."

Do others read the timeline as he beat the child, then took a bus to buy a car battery, then returned to find the child dead. Then he put him in a tub before calling 911. Wonder if drowning was ruled out?

The ME office in DC has had a lot of issues with accreditation. Shame they were not able to substantiate enough to support the affidavit and Pettus being held.

The grieving girls must be terrified he will pop up and do a bit of witness tampering. Should be locked up now.

"Magistrate Judge Robert Hildum, in releasing Pettus, told him: “You’re to have no active involvement with any person under the age of 18. And you are to stay away from your own children. … I mean, you are to have no contact with them. That means no calling them. That means no texting them. That means no attempts through social media or any third party to get in touch with your children. You’re not to go near them.”

[Anonymous]

Pettus is not being monitored, will he even be in the area by the time the autopsy is finished?

“The government has no objection to releasing the defendant on his own personal recognizance,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Cook said in court Monday. But he added, “This case is pending an autopsy ruling. … And if it is declared to be a homicide, the government will be amending the complaint and requesting” that Pettus be jailed to await a trial."

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"Sunday’s tragedy was not Pettus’s first encounter with police. In 2017 and 2019, records show, officers responded to reports that he had been engaged in “a verbal altercation over relationship issues” but found no evidence that crimes had occurred.

Then on May 30, 2023, a woman who lived on the same floor as Pettus, and who told police at the time that she and Pettus had once been romantically involved, called 911 to report that Pettus had assaulted her in the hallway outside their apartments, according to a police affidavit reviewed by The Washington Post.

The woman told police that she and Pettus “had been engaged in arguing text messages” that day regarding Pettus’s children, the affidavit says, adding that the woman reported that Pettus had threatened to shoot her. While the woman was in the hallway disposing of trash, the affidavit says, Pettus “exited a service elevator and began asking her what she had said about his kids.” He then “balled up his fist and punched [the woman] in the mouth.”

Moments later, as he was entering his apartment, he pulled a gun from his waistband and pointed it at the woman, according to the affidavit. Pettus was charged with several felonies, but the case was dismissed eight months later at the request of prosecutors, court records show. The U.S. attorney’s office in the District, which has a policy against publicly discussing charging decisions, declined to comment Tuesday on the 2023 case.

After Pettus’s 2023 arrest, a worker for the District’s Child and Family Services Agency came to the apartment to pick up Pettus’s children, the affidavit says. Asked about the agency’s involvement with the family, spokesperson Keena Blackmon said an investigation was ongoing. She did not elaborate."

Bowser needs to be pressed on that investigation.