79% of DC residents oppose Trump takeover of police
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Anonymous
They post every carjacking and mugging that doesn't result in death or severe bodily injury in the news? One of my cousins was mugged and beaten near Cleveland park metro returning from work. It didn't make news. |
Anonymous
Why would you insist that people who live in the cities have to deal with sh** and unnecessary hardships? It doesn't have to be this way. Thugs don't have to feel entitled and free to do whatever they want because they'll get out, we don't have to have panhandling reach 3rd world proportions, we already have beggars on every intersection. This is a burden on working class living in the city. The rich don't care, insulated in their suburban estates and having drivers take them everywhere for some urban $$$ dining/entertainment without being accosted. |
Anonymous
I am from NYC. I noticed the difference spending an evening in DC this weekend. I have not seen tents, sketchy people skulking around the corners, no panhandlers on every intersection like before. Only one panhandler in Gtown, not on every block of M st like before, only a few homeless sleeping in sleeping bags in the niches of some office buildings. Only 2 visibly mentally deranged people, one emerging from Rock Creek Park pathway. And not a single National Guard, the city didn't look "occupied" at all. Lots of people shopping and dining, various booze cruises going by on the Potomac and overall healthy vibe IMHO. I really do hope they keep it up. Whatever they are doing is working. In Manhattan they removed the tents long ago and you cannot live on the streets without being harassed by cops. There are still a lot of people you see sleeping on the streets, I suppose DC will have to deal with this too unless they get really draconian. |
Anonymous
You know in DC they haven't done anything to help the homeless people, right? They just moved them where you, visiting from NYC, don't see them. If that's your idea of a government program "working," well, there you go. |
Anonymous
Only one third of crimes are reported. |
Anonymous
Just fine with me. I really don't care what happens to the homeless. I don't want to see them, smell them, be around them. They are drug and alcohol addled and a public nuisance. If it was just the odd homeless person, it'd be one thing. But people like you (and I emphasize you) allowed this problem to fester and grow over the years and now basically claim nothing can be done but let them take over public places and libraries. At least Trump is doing something. Which people like you never did. And the dirty secret is that it's working for the vast majority aka not homeless people. And that's what matters. |
Anonymous
The sketchy people skulking around corners are the ICE “agents,” but residents seems to be outing them and chasing them out of neighborhoods or goods pretty effectively. The residents do not want this. More police patrol of crime? Yes I think that people want this. I do think that residents want more help for the homeless, they’d just prefer something other than the “grind them up for dog food” or whatever the current plan is. |
Anonymous
It’s costing over $1 million a day. It’s not sustainable. |
Anonymous
Look at the money the government is saving with doge. Over 200 billion. That's enough to cover the cost. |
Anonymous
| They could save more getting rid of the mayor and council. |
Anonymous
Saw this man yesterday. He is now across from the Navy Yard across the street from Taco City. How did he get here? Surely, he didn't move himself with all of that junk. He needs to be institutionalized (against his will if necessary) while he gets some help. |
Anonymous
| The lack of empathy here is something else. May mental illness and drug addiction never afflict someone you love. |
Anonymous
That’s a shame. I was really hoping the crackdown would apply there. Hopefully before it’s over there will be a roundup of a bunch of those. |
Anonymous
Cities spend billions on helping homeless, addicts and mentally ill. This money must be stolen because nothing is moving the needle. A big fat nothing is happening to help the problem and it's only getting out of hand. Former NYC mayors wife blew through almost a billion of taxpayer funds for mental health problem relief during Covid. There were more not less mentally deranged people on the streets of NYC that started to resemble an insane asylum. People attacked on the streets, stabbed, thrown under subway trains and off the stairs. There were constant homeless compounds near our housing because there were heating grills near a bus stop, so there was that shelter component to it that attracted homeless, which sometimes were deranged (one was a naked woman throwing feces and harassing people at the nearby restaurant), some were screaming waking up people (as you would imagine NYC density) in the middle of the night. F this. You need to put crazy people into mental institutions,, they don't belong on the streets. You need to put druggies into rehabs and people who want to get back on their feet into shelters. |
Anonymous
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Oh, you sweet summer child. |