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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in downtown Silver Spring for 10 years (2000 to 2010). Sometimes I had to work late and I was never comfortable coming out of the metro station at 10pm and walking to my apartment. Often my husband would come get me.

Sad that it hasn't changed.[/quote]

In the 80’s I took the metro bus after dark, I sat next to the driver and my parents picked me up
At the stop instead of walking. This isn’t new.

At UMCP, if you studied after dark in the library you could get an escort home.

This is not new[/quote]

This is victim blaming. The man was going out to dinner with his family. At a reasonable hour. I went to college in nyc in the 90s, lived in the mission in SF and near East Rogers park in Chicago. I’m careful about going out after dark and using transit, but to be honest I did use it and I did walk alone (I’m a small woman). I’m now raising my kids in DC in a neighborhood where violent crime has escalated steeply (as well as theft). It is deeply disturbing. These are our communities — we are a multiracial family and have lived in our neighborhood for 20 years. Don’t you want working families and seniors to be able to live in DC and DTSS? Don’t you want local businesses to thrive? Or should we just let these places become criminal wastelands? How would that serve equity and social justice? [/quote]

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