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Can someone enlighten me why nothing ever seems to happen to reduce the shootings between about 1st and Georgia Ave. NW on Kennedy?  Particularly 7th and Kennedy and 5th and Kennedy?

Last night while everyone was fixated on Connecticut Ave, there were three people shot on Kennedy and 7th:  https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/3-hurt-in-shooting-in-dcs-brightwood-neighborhood/3032691/

A brief list of the other crimes I can find links too; I know there are more:
Sept. 2021:  6 shot on 600 Block of Longfellow, 3 dead:  https://wjla.com/news/local/5-injured-shooting-longfellow-street-northwest-dc-police
Sept. 2021:  1 shot on the 100 Block of Kennedy:  https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/arrest-made-homicide-100-block-kennedy-street-northwest
June 2021:  Armed robbery at 900 block of Kennedy:  https://mpdc.dc.gov/release/suspects-sought-armed-robbery-gun-offense-900-block-kennedy-street-northwest
Mar. 2021:  sexual assault of business owner on Kennedy St in broad daylight means she shuttered the business:  https://www.popville.com/2021/03/cheesemonster-studio-closed-kennedy-street/
Nob. 2020:  gunshots at 7th and Kennedy:  https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/washington-dc-shootings-brightwood-park-concerned-neighborhood/65-21d195ca-f1c8-41d0-9b50-5d2cc5088a91
Feb. 2019:  5th and Kennedy drive by:  https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/5th-kennedy-shooting-video
(with the added result of the MPD Chief calling 5th and Kennedy "the most dangerous intersection in the 4th district":  https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/5th-kennedy-violence)

Those orange-shirted violence interrupters were at 7th and Kennedy for a half second, but they've been gone, or at least not visible, for a few months now.  The pizza place that was supposed to go in at 7th and Kennedy seems to have backed out after its windows got shot out multiple times.

I know it is warring "crews", but it seems worse than it used to be.  Yeah, more services would help, better schooling, poverty reduction, etc.  I know.  But that doesn't do anything in the near term.
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