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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Allen got my vote two elections ago, and lost it in the last election, because he is completely tone deaf on crime, and it's really annoying.  I wrote someone in.  I'm not sure who voted for him, because everyone I've discussed it with also wrote someone in. [/quote]

I agree with this.

A frustrating aspect of the conversation around Allen, for Ward 6 residents, is that obviously the criticism of him from congressional republicans and people outside DC is just a way to take pot shots at DC generally -- it's dumb. And I was actually proud of Allen's performance at the congressional hearings because the people questioning him were idiots.

But also, as a Ward 6 resident -- he is not a great ward rep! I think he is ineffectual and tends to just tell people what they want to hear. I think he does a good job of making people feel heard and stay connected to constituents, but I don't think he has responded well to some of the real issues we've had in the ward, including speeding/unsafe driving, and crime. To me it's obvious that crime, in particular, is going to require a combination of the preventative/deterrent approaches he often touts AND greater police presence and crime enforcement, especially in hot areas and at certain times. When certain businesses on H Street are being broken into and having items stolen EVERY weekend, or when the same people are committing theft outside the Eastern Market metro, we can't just talk about deterrent programs. We need enforcement.

Charles Allen is not a bad guy but I think we need someone more willing to pursue practical solutions and who is willing to advocate for solutions that will solve the problem even if they are not the progressive party line. [/quote]

Well, while he and the other leftists on the Council with no actual professional or educational achievements to speak of attempt to solve a problem that has plagued humanity for thousands of years, [b]can we at least get a few more police on the street while they deliberate[/b]? 
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I agree, but until there are more prosecutions, a functioning DYRS, and you reform the reform laws--whoever the police arrest will be released (if they are prosecuted at all). People like Allen aren't responsible for all of this, but they are for a lot. During the protests of 2019 which I see as the culminating point of a lot of this, when a flurry of ill thought through legislation was passed and prosecutors and police stopped prosecuting and policing, I was sympathetic to the issues, but not all of the methods or the demands of the movement. I thought (to the shriek of sirens and broken glass), well, this won't end well, and I also thought why is no one protecting store-fronts--it took DC 50 years to recover from the major riots of the 60s on the 14th and 16th street cooridors. What some liberal nitwits who have no knowledge of DC wring their hands over as 'gentrification' was actually re-building a shellshocked hellscape. Anyway, here we are. Anyone who has partial responsibility for bringing an ENTIRE city back to its Gotham days is a bad guy in my opinion, but that's neither here nor there. We need a) Tony Williams b) Congressional oversight c) to be absorbed by MD. Pick your poison. Having seen this trajectory as a kid, I KNOW DC is incapable of solving this in any reasonable amount of time. I can't wait another 50 years--we are house hunting elsewhere.[/quote]

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