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Really? Crime is down nationally in American cities and particularly in DC, SF, NY and Chicago. Per capital crime is much higher in red states, but go on with your MAGA fantasies.

Crime is down, but at a huge cost to quality of life in the cities where anything of value is locked up and public nuisance crimes were decriminalized. We all can see this in our day to day lives.
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Absolutely.  I live in the Adams Morgan/MtP/Columbia Heights area.   While we have to find a clerk to unlock a case at CVS in Adams Morgan so we can buy toothpaste, the unregulated street vendors (thanks Brianne!) at the corner of Irving and 16th sell all the massively shoplifted household items arrayed on blankets on the sidewalk.  Then you have the mentally ill street people who set up their own lodging on the sidewalk on MtP Street using those huge square insulated bags from grocery deliveries.   Weed smell permeates everywhere.  There was a brief period (pre-Brianne) in 2008-2014 when Columbia Heights was actually decent to walk to---now I avoid it whenever possible.  When I moved to Dupont/Adams Morgan in the mid 90s, there were always panhandlers in front of the 7-11 but the explosion of the mentally ill setting up their own encampments was not a thing.  And yes, encampments are down from 3 years ago but that's because the city handed out housing vouchers for the long term mentally ill and drug addicted to go live along Conn. Ave where there is absolutely no requirement that they accept services and supervision in exchange for housing.  Yes, it is better to have a mental health worker handle someone having a mental health crisis but that is NOT what re-allocating funds will go toward.  The city does not have enough mental health workers and no realistic plans to change that, or to tie housing to acceptance of services---if there WERE services.   [/quote]

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