Multiple people shot on CT Ave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The victim had profiles on Facebook and other social media, since scrubbed. Sex, yes, but trafficking, no. I suspect that she was there of her own free will.

I looked at her pages before they were scrubbed. Definite sex worker, not sure about trafficking. She was awfully young and looked like something did happen to completely change her life a few years ago. Just awful. I feel awful for her family.

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Anonymous wrote:The victim had profiles on Facebook and other social media, since scrubbed. Sex, yes, but trafficking, no. I suspect that she was there of her own free will.

I looked at her pages before they were scrubbed. Definite sex worker, not sure about trafficking. She was awfully young and looked like something did happen to completely change her life a few years ago. Just awful. I feel awful for her family.

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is that particular Days Inn a homeless shelter as reported in the DC Metro forum or is it a hotel again?

Both is my impression although there won't be hotel guests much longer. Van Ness Main Street reported it is for sale. Maybe the city will put some kind of housing there?

Who the city was housing there came up at a meeting Mary Cheh hosted. Once city bureaucrat said his agency did not have people there currently, Cheh did not respond.

The police have received complaints re: drugs and sex trade re: the hotel in the past.

Hope the victims will recover. It is my understanding that one woman was found dead and was revived at the scene.

My first thought was sex trade.

Before I knew anything about sex trafficking and before one could make reservations for hotels online or check reviews, we walked into a hotel in the midwest. I noticed women with dark rings under their eyes. They looked zoned out. When we entered, everyone stared at us. We immediately left.

I had never heard of sex trafficking, but I later read that location in Kansas was at the heart of a sex trafficking ring. I'm 99% sure I walked into a hotel full of women being sold for sex.

Recently, I read of people who had scary experiences inside lower budget hotels in DC. One reported seeing people without luggage and a "sleeping" woman being carried over someone's shoulder. I hope the police are doing something about it.

If I am remembering correctly, there was a spate of shootings related to drug deals at hotels around Thomas Circle a couple years ago.

What worries me is that as tourism continues to be down, the more budget hotels will allow more and more criminal like behavior in order to make money. I would hope that the city is thinking about this and trying to develop and plan or solutions.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It’s a nihilism born of resentment and the constant feeding of every conceivable grievance. They can’t improve their own lives but they will damn well do everything in their power to ruin yours.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It’s a nihilism born of resentment and the constant feeding of every conceivable grievance. They can’t improve their own lives but they will damn well do everything in their power to ruin yours.

It's working so far for my middle-income family depending on functional city services we can't afford to duplicate privately and our centrally-located condo holding its value. Not going so well and won't survive more "equity" nearly as well as the UMC neighbors giving out city away in its name.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes the loudest complainers of "inequity" are the worst most oppressive racists, and abuse their authority, if they're in a position of power.

Mayor Bowser and Mary Cheh won't achieve equality this way. I won't ever see either one of them as equal, but less than, not because they are black or jewish, but because of their poor character and unethical behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Is that particular Days Inn a homeless shelter as reported in the DC Metro forum or is it a hotel again?

Not sure it's current status, but I rented a car from behind there the other day and the smell of pot from the entryway to the hotel was overwhelming.

I have no idea if the gentlemen partaking where convention attendees or homeless but they looked very comfortable there smoking in public.

My parents used to stay there when visiting it was a nice little place with the convenient car rental next door. Obviously they would NEVER stay there now. DC needs to be transparent about how they are using these hotels so hapless travelers don't book. I really don't understand how you'd want to mix healthy travelers and concentrated homeless Covid quarantined anyway. Please don't tell me the Days inn ventilation is that up to date. Or that they check that people even stay in their rooms. And yes, the smell of pot through DC is abysmal. We need to repeal that law. It was a well intentioned fail .

Agree with all of this, including the point that my parents used to stay there, as we live nearby. They would be horrified to see it now.

Crud, I was just about to book it for my out of town family for graduation. Sigh.

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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.

Clearly the city found a way to sneak in steath shelters anyway. Clearly way more than three now.

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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 ??

Who are you talking to? Who do you think did these thing you accuse anonymous posters of doing?

[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.

You have a point. Who moves into a nice apartment building and proceeds to start fires and throw furniture out windows?

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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.

Were the voices in your head the ones that told you January 6th protesters were staying there?

Did they tell you to write this post as well?

Not PP, but it is actually true that protesters stayed there - -obviously unrelated to this thread though.

[Anonymous]

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

In all fairness, it really hasn't declined much at all. The Days Inn seems to stick out as a real problem in an otherwise extremely desirable and expensive neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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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.

It’s a nihilism born of resentment and the constant feeding of every conceivable grievance. They can’t improve their own lives but they will damn well do everything in their power to ruin yours.

Thank you for summing up the platform of today's Democratic party.

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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.

It’s a nihilism born of resentment and the constant feeding of every conceivable grievance. They can’t improve their own lives but they will damn well do everything in their power to ruin yours.

Thank you for summing up the platform of today's Democratic party.

+1 I have told them that last sentence many times before. They are not ashamed and will never take responsibility for themselves. We caused their troubles and made them behave in a criminal manner.

"Ruin" is an understatement. I am terminally ill and permanently, grossly disfigured (amputations) because of their deliberate actions. I lost everything and went into debt. They tried to gaslight me and play victim. Never expect them to let you have any benefits that you paid into or qualify for. They will not hesitate to take your home. They will lie, steal, and discredit you until you are in the grave. Your savings, retirement, and lines of credit will go fast. There is nothing you can do. They are like animals, digging their heels in the ground like stuburn mules. Your pro bono lawyers will never show up again and again and again. They will pretend as if they don't know who you are. Judge Zeldon will tell you to go live with "the other" in SE. They will tell you, you or your "moms" should pay for your own surgeries. All in the name of "racial justice". Get out of this s__ h__ before it's too late.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is that particular Days Inn a homeless shelter as reported in the DC Metro forum or is it a hotel again?

Both is my impression although there won't be hotel guests much longer. Van Ness Main Street reported it is for sale. Maybe the city will put some kind of housing there?

Who the city was housing there came up at a meeting Mary Cheh hosted. Once city bureaucrat said his agency did not have people there currently, Cheh did not respond.

The police have received complaints re: drugs and sex trade re: the hotel in the past.

Hope the victims will recover. It is my understanding that one woman was found dead and was revived at the scene.

My first thought was sex trade.

Before I knew anything about sex trafficking and before one could make reservations for hotels online or check reviews, we walked into a hotel in the midwest. I noticed women with dark rings under their eyes. They looked zoned out. When we entered, everyone stared at us. We immediately left.

I had never heard of sex trafficking, but I later read that location in Kansas was at the heart of a sex trafficking ring. I'm 99% sure I walked into a hotel full of women being sold for sex.

Recently, I read of people who had scary experiences inside lower budget hotels in DC. One reported seeing people without luggage and a "sleeping" woman being carried over someone's shoulder. I hope the police are doing something about it.

If I am remembering correctly, there was a spate of shootings related to drug deals at hotels around Thomas Circle a couple years ago.

What worries me is that as tourism continues to be down, the more budget hotels will allow more and more criminal like behavior in order to make money. I would hope that the city is thinking about this and trying to develop and plan or solutions.

Tourism? The council and mayor traditionally suck at promoting DC tourism.

Why should they care? Hotels will survive on protesters alone. And DC hates people from “flyover country” visiting here.