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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enforce drug and vagrancy rules[/quote]

We've been enforcing laws for hundreds of years and that hasn't worked.[/quote]

I disagree. Things deteriorated last year when the police understaffing hit a critical mass and when council made it impossible to enforce certain laws and made it clear they didn’t care and would prefer to pander to the insecure but loud minority [/quote]

Can you show me some data that backs that up? Lots of disinformation and dramatization out there.[/quote]

Uh, murders way up, carjacking way up, retail theft way up, tents popping up everywhere and no place to go downtown without getting accosted. You tell me.[/quote]

I don't find I get accosted as I did in the 90s. In the 90s a lot of the panhandlers were men in their 20s who were intimidating. Now they are just really disturbed mentally ill who should be in hospitals. But they leave me alone unless you count strewinf garbage and human refuse all around the sidewalk. It's awful in a different way. I guess the tent cities have a lot of criminal behavior and you might get accosted there, so I am glad the mayor is clearing those. They should clear every tent as soon as it goes up [/quote]

Who still cares about the 90s! Compared to 5 or 10 years ago, the level of crime, disorder and filth is WAY UP in DC.[/quote]

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