Would you let 6th graders trick or treat without parent?

[Anonymous]

Yes, DS started younger than that and DD in 6th grade -- with a group of 4 girls in a very busy neighborhood. With your concerns, I'd give her a cell phone just in case, wear some glowsticks for visibility, tell the kids each person has to have a buddy.

[Anonymous]

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Depends in the city? Honestly I wouldn’t mind having an adult trail far behind them. Some weird stuff has happened around this area lately.

Some weird stuff what?

Did you grow up in the US? If so, at what age did you trick-or-treat without a parent?

Crime. Assaults, mugging of young teens in NWDC. What is your issue that you can’t comprehend that? Now I am a foreigner because inread the police report daily for NWDC? Try reading it. Someone put a gun to a woman’s head last year in spring valley.

Ah, you're talking about crime. OK. There's actually much less crime than there used to be.

Read the police reports. Assaults happen in NWDC often. I was surprised until I started reading it for myself.

I actually do review the police reports every single month. And assaults happen very rarely in NW DC. As in count on one hand per month rare. Now property crimes are pretty common but that is not what you are fearful of.

It’s about 20 different districts I doubt you’ look at all the districts as they’re not all in one report.

Nope you are wrong and you are arguing with someone who knows a lot more about MPD and their reports than you do.

Now I suppose you could literally mean all of NW in which case you are close to being right but based on the post I responded to I'm pretty sure you really mean Ward 3.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/205122

And it doesn't take 20 or 8 or 5 reports to get the info.

[Anonymous]

Well that would depend on your neighborhood and your child. In MY neighborhood with MY child, yes. I think they even went alone in 5th grade.That might not be the case if I lived in a different neighborhood, or didn't know/like the people he/she was going with