Ward 4 Election

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Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

I'm all about dealing with the issue. I'm just not ok with hyperbole. It's ok to feel upset about crime, I do too. We just need to deal with it rationally.

NP but can I ask what crime has happened in your neighborhood? Because in my neighborhood in a three week period there was an armed robbery on the corner at 5 pm, a helicopter filled police manhunt that ended with a guy handcuffed to my next door neighbor’s fence while police dogs sniffed around our garbages, and a person was car jacked and seriously injured a few blocks away. I am not prone to hyperbole but this really brings me pause. On top of the two shootings near my kid’s school that led to lockdowns last spring, the biker who was shot and killed and the people stealing frenchies.

Sounds like my neighborhood. It also sounds not drastically different from what we've been living around the entire time we've been in DC. I'm not indifferent to it - it's something that needs serious attention. But what I see more and more of are fearful and irrational responses to it. I'm just not going to get on board with that. I want our political leaders to address crime. But I don't want feel-good policies that actually do more harm than good.

Pause is good. The feelings (fear, anger) are real - I feel them too. But we need.to use our brains, not just emotions.

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Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

I'm all about dealing with the issue. I'm just not ok with hyperbole. It's ok to feel upset about crime, I do too. We just need to deal with it rationally.

NP but can I ask what crime has happened in your neighborhood? Because in my neighborhood in a three week period there was an armed robbery on the corner at 5 pm, a helicopter filled police manhunt that ended with a guy handcuffed to my next door neighbor’s fence while police dogs sniffed around our garbages, and a person was car jacked and seriously injured a few blocks away. I am not prone to hyperbole but this really brings me pause. On top of the two shootings near my kid’s school that led to lockdowns last spring, the biker who was shot and killed and the people stealing frenchies.

Sounds like my neighborhood. It also sounds not drastically different from what we've been living around the entire time we've been in DC. I'm not indifferent to it - it's something that needs serious attention. But what I see more and more of are fearful and irrational responses to it. I'm just not going to get on board with that. I want our political leaders to address crime. But I don't want feel-good policies that actually do more harm than good.

Pause is good. The feelings (fear, anger) are real - I feel them too. But we need.to use our brains, not just emotions.

That's exactly what the Council delivered post-2020. It led to an additional 150-200 murders annually.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

I'm all about dealing with the issue. I'm just not ok with hyperbole. It's ok to feel upset about crime, I do too. We just need to deal with it rationally.

NP but can I ask what crime has happened in your neighborhood? Because in my neighborhood in a three week period there was an armed robbery on the corner at 5 pm, a helicopter filled police manhunt that ended with a guy handcuffed to my next door neighbor’s fence while police dogs sniffed around our garbages, and a person was car jacked and seriously injured a few blocks away. I am not prone to hyperbole but this really brings me pause. On top of the two shootings near my kid’s school that led to lockdowns last spring, the biker who was shot and killed and the people stealing frenchies.

Sounds like my neighborhood. It also sounds not drastically different from what we've been living around the entire time we've been in DC. I'm not indifferent to it - it's something that needs serious attention. But what I see more and more of are fearful and irrational responses to it. I'm just not going to get on board with that. I want our political leaders to address crime. But I don't want feel-good policies that actually do more harm than good.

Pause is good. The feelings (fear, anger) are real - I feel them too. But we need.to use our brains, not just emotions.

That's exactly what the Council delivered post-2020. It led to an additional 150-200 murders annually.

It coincided with. It's not logical to assume that it lead to. And the new crime bills being proposed? Where's the evidence that those measures will reduce crime.

Sometimes it's the lead in the water, not the policing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

I'm all about dealing with the issue. I'm just not ok with hyperbole. It's ok to feel upset about crime, I do too. We just need to deal with it rationally.

NP but can I ask what crime has happened in your neighborhood? Because in my neighborhood in a three week period there was an armed robbery on the corner at 5 pm, a helicopter filled police manhunt that ended with a guy handcuffed to my next door neighbor’s fence while police dogs sniffed around our garbages, and a person was car jacked and seriously injured a few blocks away. I am not prone to hyperbole but this really brings me pause. On top of the two shootings near my kid’s school that led to lockdowns last spring, the biker who was shot and killed and the people stealing frenchies.

Sounds like my neighborhood. It also sounds not drastically different from what we've been living around the entire time we've been in DC. I'm not indifferent to it - it's something that needs serious attention. But what I see more and more of are fearful and irrational responses to it. I'm just not going to get on board with that. I want our political leaders to address crime. But I don't want feel-good policies that actually do more harm than good.

Pause is good. The feelings (fear, anger) are real - I feel them too. But we need.to use our brains, not just emotions.

That's exactly what the Council delivered post-2020. It led to an additional 150-200 murders annually.

It coincided with. It's not logical to assume that it lead to. And the new crime bills being proposed? Where's the evidence that those measures will reduce crime.

Sometimes it's the lead in the water, not the policing.

This was a safe place to live in the 2010s. Now it’s not. Something happened. What is the council good for if they can’t address it?

[Anonymous]

Another shooting/murder last night and no updates from JGL.

[Anonymous]

Does Jonah still have the excel spreadsheet to keep track of crime? Or is too much to keep track?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another shooting/murder last night and no updates from JGL.

Where was this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Another shooting/murder last night and no updates from JGL.

Where was this?

900 block of Shepherd Street NW

https://wjla.com/news/local/shooting-washington-dc-person-shot-shepherd-street-nw-homicide-crime-mpd-police-investigation-gun-violence-district

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

DP but even on a mathematical risk assessment I'm voting against JLG. 4 years ago the idea of a shooting in my immediate neighborhood was completely ridiculous. Now it's a twice-monthly event and my preschooler got shot at on a city bus at 3 in the afternoon, less than a quarter mile from my front door. Is Ward 4 Baghdad? No. Is it worse now than it was when George was elected. Absolutely yes. The real risk has gone up. And I don't think she's inciting crime personally or responsible for putting on a cape and stopping it all herself, but the little bit that councilpersons *can* do, she chooses not do or actively opposes. So I will vote for someone else, and hope that it doesn't just keep deteriorating and I'm not 3 years out from moving like the PP upthread.

Can you specify which particular policies JLG proposed that were adopted, funded, and implemented that led to this crime wave?

I'll give you a hint - you cannot because this mess is the Mayor's, but she is afraid of taking on MPD's laziness and refusal to leave their precincts. Their response time has slowed dramatically because they are more likely to be twiddling their thumbs at the station than they are to be in the community.

The police union has done an incredible job tricking you into thinking Defund did anything.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

DP but even on a mathematical risk assessment I'm voting against JLG. 4 years ago the idea of a shooting in my immediate neighborhood was completely ridiculous. Now it's a twice-monthly event and my preschooler got shot at on a city bus at 3 in the afternoon, less than a quarter mile from my front door. Is Ward 4 Baghdad? No. Is it worse now than it was when George was elected. Absolutely yes. The real risk has gone up. And I don't think she's inciting crime personally or responsible for putting on a cape and stopping it all herself, but the little bit that councilpersons *can* do, she chooses not do or actively opposes. So I will vote for someone else, and hope that it doesn't just keep deteriorating and I'm not 3 years out from moving like the PP upthread.

Can you specify which particular policies JLG proposed that were adopted, funded, and implemented that led to this crime wave?

I'll give you a hint - you cannot because this mess is the Mayor's, but she is afraid of taking on MPD's laziness and refusal to leave their precincts. Their response time has slowed dramatically because they are more likely to be twiddling their thumbs at the station than they are to be in the community.

The police union has done an incredible job tricking you into thinking Defund did anything.

So she’s just ineffective over all and can’t even do what she wants to do?

[Anonymous]

Seriously, what is the council good for if they refuse to address crime, and claim their well-documented efforts to defund failed even as crime skyrocketed? Maybe we can elect someone who doesn’t gaslight that crime in our ward is significantly worse than before her time in office and is willing to address it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.

Oh okay I get it. If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG. If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense. Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse. You read it first on DCUM, folks!

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it.

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day.

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk. You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs. Good luck!

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.

DP but even on a mathematical risk assessment I'm voting against JLG. 4 years ago the idea of a shooting in my immediate neighborhood was completely ridiculous. Now it's a twice-monthly event and my preschooler got shot at on a city bus at 3 in the afternoon, less than a quarter mile from my front door. Is Ward 4 Baghdad? No. Is it worse now than it was when George was elected. Absolutely yes. The real risk has gone up. And I don't think she's inciting crime personally or responsible for putting on a cape and stopping it all herself, but the little bit that councilpersons *can* do, she chooses not do or actively opposes. So I will vote for someone else, and hope that it doesn't just keep deteriorating and I'm not 3 years out from moving like the PP upthread.

Hey.. I don't agree with you, but I wanted to say I at least can understand your perspective and appreciate you cutting through the bullshit to be real.

[Anonymous]

It's over - Lisa getting absolutely smoked in the $$

https://x.com/alisonhorndc/status/1758200212802187766?s=46&t=EwM4bfthPj_yHwyhXgwkdw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's over - Lisa getting absolutely smoked in the $$

https://x.com/alisonhorndc/status/1758200212802187766?s=46&t=EwM4bfthPj_yHwyhXgwkdw

Remember when Brandon Todd had a huge fundraising edge over JLG four years ago? That race was so over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's over - Lisa getting absolutely smoked in the $$

https://x.com/alisonhorndc/status/1758200212802187766?s=46&t=EwM4bfthPj_yHwyhXgwkdw

She has like another $60k in public funding coming soon (and she would already have it if she didn't screw up her initial campaign filing)