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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe there was more acts of crime in DC in the 80s and 90s. However, the difference between then and now is that many more areas of the city and the suburbs are less safe.[/quote]

You're joking, right? There is no way you were here in the 80s and 90s if you actually believe that.

Literally the entire city east of Rock Creek Park is significantly safer now. Columbia Heights, Petworth, Brightwood, Fort Totten, Brookland, Hill East, Logan Circle, Shaw, Bloomingdale, Edgewood, Eckington, NoMa, (which absolutely wasn't called NoMa) Trinidad, H St., Michigan Park, Ivy City were all wastelands full of boarded up and burned out houses, open air drug markets, lacking any sort of retail or restaurants that didn't serve you through bulletproof glass. There is literally no comparison between now and then.

Meanwhile none of the neighborhoods that were safe back then are less safe in any meaningful way.

To say that any of the city and suburbs, much less "many more areas" are less safe than the 80s and 90s is patently and laughably absurd. To write that you would have to have absolutely zero knowledge or awareness of what the area was like back then.  [/quote]

Ok. I’ll try to be more specific. Criminals now come to Upper NW to rob and attack. That never used to happen with such regularity. They also now hang out in Arlington and other close-in burbs. This is all new, since 2020, I think.[/quote]

There have been 93 robberies and 58 assaults in 2D (WOTP) this year to date. There are around 175,000 residents in that same area. Do you not understand how incredibly insignificant that is?

Even if there were 0 robberies and assaults in the 80s and 90s (there definitely weren't) the increase in your actual chances of being robbed would be so miniscule as to not even be worth thinking about.

Stop being hysterical, you're working yourself into a frenzy for absolutely no benefit. You were safe back then, you're safe now. [/quote]

Murder rates up and carjacking up by 100+ percent, but their victims take solace knowing it was worse 30 years ago.[/quote]

Oh no, 100%! That's a big number!

You know what's not a big number? The actual numbers of murders and carjackings compared to the amount of people in the city, and your chances of being one of those victims.

Wow, an extra 100 people a year got killed, almost entirely gangbangers with long criminal records and mostly EOTR where DCUMers have never even set foot. Real scary stuff for those stay at home moms in the Palisades who "don't feel safe anymore" despite the chances of being one of those victims going from approximately 0% to approximately 0%.

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You are so out of touch with those of us who live in those neighborhoods and have experienced the murders, carjackings and break ins. I don't know what you think you're accomplishing but downplaying what we deal with.[/quote]

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