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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no doubt that crime has decreased. I mean, it's in the numbers, and also in a gut-check way, i feel much safer walking around Shaw and safer sending my tween-aged kids to walk by themselves.

Saying this out loud, however, results in a hysterical reaction from our white neighbors.

Brown and black citizens (we are in this category) don't have a problem admitting that it is safer. Brown non-citizens are terrified.
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[b]Are the NG patrolling in Shaw?[/b]

I haven’t seen them in Brookland. Theft from our CVS is still outrageous, and a young woman was mugged and beaten by a group of people near the metro last month.

I see the NG pretty regularly at Gallery Place station and in the Navy Yard area, neither of which felt unsafe before or more safe now. So I’m curious how the NG is making a difference in Shaw. [/quote]

Yup, they are here and I see them every day. The most notable difference is that they are often near the Shaw Metro station, and so the drug dealing that used to happen there doesn't happen there any longer. My tween walks around on his own and uses the metro to get to school, and he said he feels (and is) safer now, and he has less anxiety around this commute.

National Guard is clearly an expensive answer to this problem, but there is not doubt (in the numbers) that crime went down. There is also plenty of precedent for governors calling on national guard during crime surges, even in "blue" states like NY.

We are life long Democrats. However, acknowledging reality is very important.

ICE is a completely different conversation.[/quote]

We live in the neighborhood same neighborhood as you and roll our eyes at and feel sorry for the NG.  We don't feel safer.  We feel annoyed.  We also have a tween and they don't feel any different than we do.  Maybe your tween need to grow a spine.  The drug dealers aren't there to bother your tween.   [/quote]

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