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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]30 years ago was 1991, when there were 482 homicides in DC.

Last year (2020), there were 198 homicides.[/quote]
there are plenty of other violent crimes other than homicide. I am not the OP but have lived in DC since 1996, in all kinds of transitioning neighborhoods. I owned a condo in Columbia Heights in mid 2000s when it seemed like it wsa on upswing. Now its a total shit show. So many homeless and drug addicts, no long viable to have a restaurant at the corner of Kenyon annd 14th.  Carjackings have tripled and now 14 year old girls are killing people while they carjack them.  Im a liberal but DC council has gotten too soft on crime and want too much low income housing.  After 22 years and now a kid in DCPS, I want out too OP.[/quote]
Thank you for sharing. I’ve personally come to the same conclusion.

I have lived in this area since 1999 and I’ve lived in some of the worst neighborhoods in DC across NW, NE and SW (I drew the line at SE). I think your perception of Columbia Heights may have been warped by the new Target. There was for a long time a small group of homeless men strung out on heroin  that lived on Mt. Pleasant (there used to be a methadone clinic on Columbia at 13th or 14th. Pre-Target there was always Sunday prostitution on 13th to catch the church traffic. Malcolm X Park used to be filled with needles. Kids would throw eggs at gentrifying white people near the Boys and Girls Club in 14th. On my block we had regular drive-by shootings. Pre-Wonderland 11th was legitimately dangerous. I also lived in Trinidad during the gang war years and a couple other places.

After a while you get sort of numb to it all. I tell myself that random violence is rare, that so long as I’m smart I’ll be safe. But honestly this murder broke me. The more I started reading about this kid and then the murderer and then how they put the murderer in a psychological facility in Tenleytown and then broke out. After all of this, I just cannot. I don’t think anyone is irredeemable, but how can this city just turn its back on victims? That’s the real tragedy that I just cannot get over. 
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/shooting-on-good-hope-road-in-southeast-dc/2551069/
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/homicide-suspect-escapes-in-northwest-dc/2621562/

There are no excuses anymore. Even if 198 murders is “better” it’s not good enough. By comparison Montgomery County had 17 with 50% more population.

I’m right there with you as a parent with a young child. This is not something that they need to be exposed to. Exposure to death and violence will not enrich their experience or make them better people. I’ve seen enough for my lifetime.
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OMG you lived in Trinidad but "draw the line at SE!" What a strange comment from a 20+ year resident.  Usually people figure out pretty quickly that the city's dangerous blocks are not divided by quadrant! [/quote]

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