Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Update on the horrible case of a bipolar vagrant (Landon grad) who viciously attacked an elderly couple outside the Cathedral Commons Giant, breaking one's cane over their head. Thank God this dangerous person has been held, case update at Tweet

Alex Adams grew up wealthy before descending into mental illness and violent behavior. He's had every intervention along with stints in halfway houses, DC Jail and St. E's. His case blows up the trite excuses always given, about equity, about how transformative "services" are, etc. We really need to bring back institutions for the criminally insane. Alex also attacked his own elderly father causing serious injury. He's a young, strong man and a clear danger, especially to the older population who he seems to target.

thnx for the follow up. is he re-institutionalized? heartbreaking, but necessary

We don't have long tern institutional care like that anymore. He pleaded not guilty in court, his case has not been adjudicated yet.

Heartbreaking as he is a threat to the public and his elderly father is terrified of him, has extensive security system, etc., but obviously AA knows where he lives and he has to leave his home in Georgetown sometimes.

[Anonymous]

The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

Dang.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

Back in the day, myself and several of my friends bought cheap machetes and would run around the neighborhood with them until a parent saw us.
He looked at us and said " Hey! You boys want to earn $5 each clearing these bushes with your machetes?

$5 each! That was big bucks for us boys back in the day.
Its sad kids these days can't live like when some of us grew up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

I just looked this guy up and fun fact, he also has a pending assault case from September in which a bench warrant was outstanding when he was arrested on the machete case over the weekend. He was released on personal recognizance in both cases yesterday. DC is a complete and utter joke.

[Anonymous]

Talk to your kids about what to do if they are carjacked while driving or while riding in an Uber, as happened recently. Do this if you live in DC, MoCo or NoVA, where this carjacking of a teen (by a DC criminal) happened

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

I just looked this guy up and fun fact, he also has a pending assault case from September in which a bench warrant was outstanding when he was arrested on the machete case over the weekend. He was released on personal recognizance in both cases yesterday. DC is a complete and utter joke.

I thought risk to public safety and risk to not appear were BOTH grounds to hold?!!!

Someone needs to make a dashboard of case outcomes that includes the names of Judges. Appointed for life, we need to use some shame to give them skin in the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire public safety "system" following the point of arrest, is basically fictious in DC for both adults and juveniles.

We are kidding ourselves that this is a safe place to raise a family. Have been here since early 90s but we are looking to get out now.

Heads up on the Hill! Warn your older kids who may go out on H Street and younger colleagues.

I just looked this guy up and fun fact, he also has a pending assault case from September in which a bench warrant was outstanding when he was arrested on the machete case over the weekend. He was released on personal recognizance in both cases yesterday. DC is a complete and utter joke.

[Anonymous]

Text of the current Economist piece "Why is Washington DC So Violent?" at link.

For a city that relies so heavily on tourism, not good.

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/17k87p4/why_is_washington_dc_so_violent/

[Anonymous]

DC crime spills over throughout region, recently a DC gang committed murder near Baltimore, now this in Fairfax.

[Anonymous]

Biden needs to replace USAO Graves and clean house re: career prosecutors. When Graves removed all prosecutorial discretion in a Chinatown pilot project, they went up there quite a bit but overall the office dropped 4% that month, was a signal being sent?

The people of DC deserve basic safety as does the region. The USAO was no papering up to 67% of arrests, including violent crime, felonies, gun crimes, in Philly, it's 4%. With a strong anti-crime USA in place and a new team of prosecutors, Congress needs to exercise regular oversight until the office is in line with other major cities.

[Anonymous]

Same magistrate judge who was on the "Social Justice Review" released both hatchet man and Tyson's carjacker of teen despite both having recent violent crimes on their records?

He needs to be recalled and the current judicial vacancies need to be filled with some tough on crime types who want to protect public safety, especially the poor people, black and brown, who are most likely to be the victims of violent crime by the current catch and release approach.

We need a new USA too. This requires appointments from 90s era Biden.

[Anonymous]

It's not just DC. It's everywhere.


"The word hypernormalization was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not just DC. It's everywhere.


"The word hypernormalization was coined by Alexei Yurchak, a professor of anthropology who was born in Leningrad and later went to teach at the University of California, Berkeley. He introduced the word in his book Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2006), which describes paradoxes of Soviet life during the 1970s and 1980s.He says that everyone in the Soviet Union knew the system was failing, but no one could imagine an alternative to the status quo, and politicians and citizens alike were resigned to maintaining the pretense of a functioning society. Over time, this delusion became a self-fulfilling prophecy and the fakeness was accepted by everyone as real, an effect that Yurchak termed hypernormalisation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

No, it’s not.

[Anonymous]

Why is flashing a person not a crime? Ie indecent exposure? This peep show guy in the Cathedral Commons bank ATM kiosk should be getting charged or involuntarily held. PIW is three feet away and the police station is three feet away in the other direction. This is crazy.