Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?
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Anonymous
| Yep. Liberalism and their enabling the less ambitious |
Anonymous
Anonymous
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194th Homicide on the year today.
"I have noticed the decline" people are not bothered by the additional deaths. |
Anonymous
| Someone tried to rob my kid in Georgetown in broad daylight on Monday. It’s time for a clampdown. |
Anonymous
What happened?! And I hope they are ok. |
Anonymous
Anonymous
As if! As if that’s going to happen. Think about it. This town is populated with either wealthy or upper middle class intelligent idealistic, but naive folks who embrace urbanism and all its warts. They think a punitive approach to crime is “unfair.” Cracking down puts too many in jail and so they want to work on the “root causes of poverty” rather than enforcement. It’s a sort of patronizing, infantilizing way to view crime. Basically side with the perpetrators over the victims and promulgate ineffective restorative Justice and keep voting in weaklings who justify the status quo by touting selective, “evidence based” policies that make us less safe. Or you have Ward 7 and 8 super poor people who basically don’t like police and enforcement. Meanwhile Grocery stores leave because of shrinkage, the car jackings continue to skyrocket because obviously criminals know they can get away with anything. and the tax base , you know, people willing to put up with it, slowly get scared and leave. |
Anonymous
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Moved to DC in 1994, lived in NW DC or close in MoCo for years, moved to Fairfax City in 2010, then moved farther out in 2021.
In our Fairfax City neighborhood in the early 2010s, there was so little crime that police responded and took a police report when I found a pot pipe near our house (yes, I am and always have been a Karen). The biggest concern was noise complaints. Crime started increasing in 2020 with car break-ins, attempted home break-ins, and tons of catalytic converter thefts. We sold our house in 2021 after someone came into our fully fenced yard at night and looked around. I'm still in the Facebook group for our old neighborhood, and residents regularly post videos of groups of people coming into the neighborhood at 1-2 a.m. to check car doors and steal catalytic converters. There also have also been a number of recent stabbings and murders near Fairfax Circle and Fairfax High School. So that's all new. I also see a significant decline in the infrastructure. Drive on any major road in Fairfax County (Braddock, Fairfax County Parkway) and you will see weeds growing in the median through the concrete, plus trash that no one ever seems to clean up. It looks like a county in decline. |
Anonymous
| ^^ I should also add that there has been a bunch of crime around my office in NE DC. Someone was stabbed on a weekday morning in front of my building, and a violent sexual assault took place two blocks away that same week. This is on top of the armed robbery at the Subway (as in the restaurant, not the Metro) in the middle of a weekday, the fact that local businesses refuse to handle cash, the fights in front of the NY Avenue Metro station, etc., etc. |
Anonymous
| Yes and we are tying to leave asap it's just not worth it anymore to stay here. Are any of you leaving as well? |
Anonymous
Sure you are. Crime has always happened in DC. It just hit Ward 3 and y'all are losing your sh*t. |
Anonymous
Are you old enough to remember the bike stabber on Capitol Hill mid-90s? |
Anonymous
The thread specifically asks this question of long term residents -- so the 80s and 90s are exactly what we're talking about in this particular thread. Yes, crime is getting out of control and the city needs to step up; but also yes, we are nowhere near what it was like when we moved here during the Barry years, and we don't want to to get that way again. |
Anonymous
No, definitely not leaving. Thanks for asking. Feel free to move away if you'd like. I understand if people think they can't tolerate the current conditions in the District, but I really wish they'd stop also trying to persuade me that I also can't tolerate the current conditions or that I'm somehow doing something wrong if I stay here. |
Anonymous
| We are trying to hold on, but if there isn’t a crackdown on crime, we will leave. 17 years here. |