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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The WAPO crime map is telling of what happens to similar communities that value laws and safety over nearby communities that don't.

NOVA is boring and Maryland is exciting (also just lol at the poster using her son as anecdotal evidence to try and explain a trend and arguing with crack arguments) or people in Rosslyn are armed in masse are poor arguments.

Implement laws fairly and come does not gain a foothold. Plenty of countries with far bigger rich-poor divide with lower crime rate than DC.

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I'm the poster with the anecdotal evidence regarding my son.  Not sure the trend except to say that most black kids have no desire to hang out in VA.  I'm black and my father was from VA.  He was born in 1920 and worked like hell to get out of VA.

I have VERY few black friends who live in VA.  I'm not suggesting that no black people live there, I'm just stating that it doesn't tend to be our first choice.  As a matter of fact, I have a girlfriend who suggested to her husband that they consider VA and he said hell no!  He's a law firm partner.

I think the issues are more historical then crime fighting.  Most criminals don't think about the laws before they commit a crime.  If that was the case, there would be less crime in Atlanta, Miami and all of those other open carry places.

Yes, NOVA has less crime.  I wonder if that's more of an economic issue than anything else.  If you consider similar zip codes in MD and DC, the crime may be a little higher, but I'm sure it won't be much.  It's hard to compare an entire city (DC) to a part of VA (NOVA).  Trust and believe, there are some really rough places in VA.

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Op here, the population of NOVA is approx. 4 times than of the entire district. So per capita NOVA is actually disproportionately ahead of DC in terms of crime, more even than can be seen on the graph. This is probably because DC has a lot of income disparity and lags behind NOVA in addressing crimes is what I gather from the posts above.

To the PP citing walk-ability, I feel Maryland is on par with NOVA. Is Ellicott City more walkable than Woodbridge? Is Bethesda more walkable than Arlington? I don't think that is a noticeable difference.

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