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[quote=Anonymous]I live in Navy Yard and heard the helicopters all morning.  Obviously an unfortunate incident but involved a dispute within one of the buildings and the necessary police response since the gunman was still out in the community barricaded in a building.  In fact, it sounds like from the reporting that the reason this incident happened is because the Housing Authority as policing the building, which is what people on here are complaining that they don't do!  A DC employee was shot because he was enforcing the rules to get people who were not supposed to be in that building out.  Not sure how that means that DC is not doing its job to police those buildings.  Likewise it is common sense that you need more police to stay in the area when the gunman is there. In the case of the carjacking (to which I am entirely sympathetic) there would not be any reason for police to be there hours after the incident if the assailant had immediately fled.  It is not the victim's identity that made the difference it is the question of what needs to be done after the initial event.

I've lived in DC a long time and understand the concerns about the rate of crime having gone up lately but I think the blame game here has gotten entirely out of hand.  Can we not applaud both the officer who was shot doing his job and the police who were able to arrest the perpetrators here?  [/quote]

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