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[quote=Anonymous]Really, is there targeted crime on H Street to cause "spillover?" H Street is literally 1 block from LT. Folks who live "on the hill" have a false sense that the houses on their specific block (home or school) are somehow immune to crime. Whereas, homes on the next block over are crime-infested? [/quote]

The shooting last Friday was scary, but from parents who were on the scene it sounds like the teachers got everyone inside and locked down quickly and efficiently, without scaring the little ones. Neither the shooter nor the victim was local to the neighborhood; the fact that it happened by the school seems to be pure coincidence. [/quote]

Both of these posters are ignorant. This shooting had nothing at all to do with H Street. The only thing H Street's development has to do with LT is enabling a lot of on-street parking on the weekends.

There has been a large group of men who hang out daily in front of two houses on Morris for at least 10 years, drinking, smoking weed and generally being a public nuisance. The administration at LT looks away, the old neighbors never minded, the new neighbors have too much white guilt to call them in, and the police can't do anything about loitering and it's hard/not worth it to bust them for public drinking, etc.

The loiterers are rarely currently from the neighborhood -- they come back to their old stomping grounds and use NE as their open-air bar/men's club. Anyone who has attended a little league game or practice on a weeknight knows exactly who/how/where this shooting occurred.

This problem is not block-specific, it's house-specific. [/quote]

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