Multiple people shot on CT Ave?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.

This is such an *-hat attitude. No one wants Wards 5-8 or any other neighborhood to experience blight and crime.

Of course but until you have to deal with it you don’t care or do anything about it. Welcome to equality

Ward 3 is incredibly generous in advocacy, taxes, volunteering and locations of homeless shelters and services. Please check the A*-hat attitude. You seem really ill-informed about our city. How do you "deal with" the homeless in a way that "does something about it"?

[Anonymous]

I listened to the press conference and liked what Cheh, the Police Chief and Mayor had to say about accountability--both for City Services and for the perps. Now they need to follow through. The scofflawing of DC laws has become ridiculous--MD driver's speeding through and not paying tickets, marijuana publicly smoked everywhere, youth crime without any visible rehabilitation, gun crimes discarded by AG. The police are only able to arrest. Other agencies and entities need to step it up!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.

This is such an *-hat attitude. No one wants Wards 5-8 or any other neighborhood to experience blight and crime.

Of course but until you have to deal with it you don’t care or do anything about it. Welcome to equality

Ward 3 is incredibly generous in advocacy, taxes, volunteering and locations of homeless shelters and services. Please check the A*-hat attitude. You seem really ill-informed about our city. How do you "deal with" the homeless in a way that "does something about it"?

Um, paying taxes is not generous. There is no evidence that residents of Ward 3 volunteer, donate, or advocate for services for unhoused people more than residents of other wards. There is only one shelter in Ward 3 and residents fought tooth and nail to prevent it from opening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the press conference and liked what Cheh, the Police Chief and Mayor had to say about accountability--both for City Services and for the perps. Now they need to follow through. The scofflawing of DC laws has become ridiculous--MD driver's speeding through and not paying tickets, marijuana publicly smoked everywhere, youth crime without any visible rehabilitation, gun crimes discarded by AG. The police are only able to arrest. Other agencies and entities need to step it up!

YOU VOTES FOR THIS.

Be honest: who did you vote for? (we both know the answer).

You want things this way; you voted for this to happen.

And you expect the police - the ones that are still left - to solve your problems after the way you’ve treated them, defunded them, insulted and demoralized them??

Seriously ??

[Anonymous]

There are no loitering laws in DC. Every police interaction with a POC is seen as an aggression. So how do we manage the aforementioned aggressive driving, public pot smoking, encampments, youth crime, etc.?

What will POC allow the police to do? I would like a list of things that are not seen as aggressions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.

What you don’t seem to realize is that the point being proved here, which you endorse, is that you take the person out of the ghetto but you cannot take the ghetto out of the person. You may want to consider the future implications of that belief in terms of the design of future social programs and spending. The government can only hold the free market at bay for so long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And to that point upper caucasia (which since you lived here, you probably know includes Asians. Blacks etc), is mostly myopic if anything else in their desire to "help". For example, the loud crowd wanting densification in the name of affordable housing, the loud crowd wanting to defund the police, the loud crowd wanting to convert the Wardman Marriott into 900 low-income units (which would basically be another DC General). This is an extreme liberal group in upper caucasia actively seeking to participate in DC chaos from some myopic savior complex, rather than smart solutions that bring up the whole city.

Most of that “loud crowd” you mention are people who I don’t believe have any intent to stay in the city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I listened to the press conference and liked what Cheh, the Police Chief and Mayor had to say about accountability--both for City Services and for the perps. Now they need to follow through. The scofflawing of DC laws has become ridiculous--MD driver's speeding through and not paying tickets, marijuana publicly smoked everywhere, youth crime without any visible rehabilitation, gun crimes discarded by AG. The police are only able to arrest. Other agencies and entities need to step it up!

YOU VOTES FOR THIS.

Be honest: who did you vote for? (we both know the answer).

You want things this way; you voted for this to happen.

And you expect the police - the ones that are still left - to solve your problems after the way you’ve treated them, defunded them, insulted and demoralized them??

Seriously ??

Sigh. I vote Republican or centrist Independent. And I was born in DC. The candidates I vote for so far have zero chance of winning, so it is a purely symbolic act. I do pay taxes, am a good neighbor, and speak out on community forums contact my ANC and Council member etc. There are some moderates in DC and we are hoping this situation convinces our neighbors to join us. Not by bashing them, but by convincing them that the best for the city's future is more Tony Williams, fewer Charles Allen's. You would be surprised but even Bowser is better than most of our councilmembers on crime and often has to challenge their idiotic ideas. She and Cheh and the police rep sounded pretty righteous yesterday. The assistant AG was hard to take seriously though .

[Anonymous]

So is the goal of moving the unhoused and indigent into Forest Hills to bring Forest Hills down or to bring the unhoused up? This could be a tremendous opportunity for these people, but I don’t see them taking advantage of it and I really only hear eye rolling PP celebrating that her faction has succeeded in spreading blight. So let's reconsider if there really is any point to the project before "equity" drags everyone down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is still true, but that Days Inn has often housed tourists who come to DC for protests and such, and I was, startlingly, told to avoid the area the week of the January 6th insurrection.

If, as it has been reported, the violence happened inside the hotel, perhaps the issue is complicated by the need to both protect free speech and other Constitutional rights, while also protecting the rights of those of us who live and work here.

You are delusional

How so? There were thousands of folks. Not all could bunk at the Willard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is the goal of moving the unhoused and indigent into Forest Hills to bring Forest Hills down or to bring the unhoused up? This could be a tremendous opportunity for these people, but I don’t see them taking advantage of it and I really only hear eye rolling PP celebrating that her faction has succeeded in spreading blight. So let's reconsider if there really is any point to the project before "equity" drags everyone down.

As Mary Cheh said at the press conference, nothing is going to change if you bring mentally ill or addicted people anywhere without services. I also think it's very wise to think about ratio. Isn't that why they broke up DC General in the first place? Why does it seem like they are trying to reconstitute it in various large units on Conn Ave? Different address, same problems?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So is the goal of moving the unhoused and indigent into Forest Hills to bring Forest Hills down or to bring the unhoused up? This could be a tremendous opportunity for these people, but I don’t see them taking advantage of it and I really only hear eye rolling PP celebrating that her faction has succeeded in spreading blight. So let's reconsider if there really is any point to the project before "equity" drags everyone down.

Yes, that is their goal. In their troubled minds, equity is being resentful to those who have more and have a well lived life in contrast to "the other". For example, it's being bitter because you don't own a classic six on Park Ave, so they build a mega homeless shelter on billionaires row to destroy the quality of life and safety of the neighborhood. While looting, drug use, drug sales, shooting, stabbings, solo sex or with another homeless person, fighting, public urinating and defecating, property destruction, aggressive panhandling, assaults, etc plague the neighborhood, they are sitting back in their offices ignoring complaints and laughing hysterically. This is equity.

[Anonymous]

The woman who died was young, I believe 20 years old and from Waldorf. I heard part of a statement from her family hinting that the last two years had been a struggle. I wish we had more details.

Such an eye-opener to learn more about a nice neighborhood, where I used to live.

[Anonymous]

This is, unfortunately, the way Democratic governance is heading. Rather than making all areas safer, they want to bring the same levels of criminality and homelessness everywhere.

Same with the schools in MoCo: anti-racism means you can’t have discipline or exclusion. The result? Lawlessness everywhere.

The road is open for the Fascist Republican takeover. The center has collapsed.

Well done.

[Anonymous]

I lived in that area 20 years ago. Sad to hear it has declined so much.