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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enraging. I live on H Street in NE and have watched shop after shop like this open up on the blocks between my kids' school (Ludlow-Taylor) and another elementary (JO Wilson). I've also watched these streets fill with people who are clearly on drugs, often drinking out of open containers, panhandling, engaging in lewd and sometimes graphic language and behavior. Smoking so much that if you have to walk through with your kid, you're walking through these clouds of smoke. My kids complain about the stinky cigarettes and the crowds on the street. And these places are within a block or two of TWO elementary schools, with hundreds of kids coming and going every day.

I don't care if Congress claims they can't do anything about it. Do something about it, and then make Congress defend their position. This is ridiculous. These people are not even engaging in legal commerce or behavior. The head shops are skirting the law by "gifting" weed with purchase, and the people who patronize them are flouting the fact that the police won't enforce laws against public use (or public drinking, urinating and defecating in public spaces, harassment of pedestrians, etc.). And the Council just decided to do NOTHING.

At least Allen brought the bill. I don't support the recall effort against him (as in won't vote for it and think it's kind of silly) BUT I do sense it might be lighting a fire under him to be more proactive about crime and drug issues in Ward 6 and I'm all for that. The complacency is killing us.[/quote]

You fully recognize that he’s been complacent on crime yet you don’t support the recall?[/quote]

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