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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went up to Tenleytown last night.  The heavyset woman who sleeps in the bus stop who has been there since like 2014 was still there.  The self-appointed The Hobo guy sitting outside the CVS who is there every day was still there.  There was a pan handler I hadn't seen before outside of the Target/metro entrance.  Other than that... I had dinner, I did a bit of shopping at a couple stores... and then I took the metro back home and never once did anyone really bother me nor did I feel unsafe.[/quote]

The dude outside the CVS has [i]advertising[/i] on his stuff. He's also 100 percent harmless.

There are always people asking for money outside the Target, just as people were asking for money when it was a Best Buy, and just as people were asking for money when it was Hechinger.

The people who think Tenleytown is dangerous are probably the same rubes who think anything busier than a cul-de-sac is a "busy road."[/quote]

Why is the community forced to tolerate aggressive panhandling and vagrancy ?[/quote]
vibrant urbanism [/quote]

I am harassed and panhandled by very single day in DC. I just pray that the person doesn’t get aggressive but it’s no way to live. It happens all over city but getting out of metro and walking home and being harassed is the worst. [/quote]

We have stopped going to the Cathedral Commons shopping center on Wisconsin Ave.  Despite the location almost across from a police station, it’s impossible to go to Giant, CVS and other stores/restaurants without being harassed, accosted, yelled at by aggressive panhandlers.  Although I have not seen actual drug use or transactions, some of the people who hang out there are moving about in a way that suggests they are in a drugged state. [/quote]

We still go there. If people are being aggressive anywhere in the city, please call 311 for a wellness check. You don't need to give your name, just the location (intersection) of the person acting anti socially/erratically. No one is sent blazing in. It's a social services wellness check. Please please do this. Either they will get a wellness check every time, or they will move on. Don't let them stand in your nice shopping plaza and pull this antisocial crap without constant wellness checks.[/quote]

The real estate sector is supposed to have the mayor’s ear.  The owners of Cathedral Commons should be be calling her constantly because the criminal activity and general disorder — and the inability/inattention of the police to do anything about the situation  — have put the Cathedral Commons investment into a downward spiral.[/quote]

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