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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks OP for informing the people on this board. Some of us don’t just bury our heads in the sand or pretend roses grow out of concrete sidewalks. It’s important that MPD do their job. Thankfully no one was hurt—-immigrant or innocent bystanders. We don’t know if these gang members had weapons on them. MPD should have had each one of them searched. [b]There was just a drive by shooting of gang members which saw a ten year old girl lose her life and other innocent bystanders get shot.[/b] Again,I’m grateful that no was hurt, but Mt. Pleasant is a very criminal enriched activity hotbed, alongside Columbia Heights. [/quote]
...yes, 8 miles away in Lincoln Heights. Do you even live in DC?

[b]I live in Mount Pleasant, am out in the neighborhood on a regular basis, and don't see glaring signs of gang activity[/b]. It's unfortunate that, given our current discourse, some think that being brown = being illegal and/or a criminal. There are plenty of Latinos in Mount Pleasant (who were here LONG before I joined the community) and 99.9% of them mind their own business and appear to be law-abiding individuals (although I sense you'd pick a fight with me over whether they are "law-abiding" if they aren't US citizens).

If anything, seeing a fight or criminal activity at 16th and Irving is usually related to a scuffle between teenagers who go to Lincoln/Bell or something that spilled over from Columbia Heights.

Take your pearl clutching elsewhere.[/quote]
They came in the 80s. When did you join the neighborhood? Gangs are a scourge for these communities. They jump in the kids while the parents are at work. Once you're jumped in (beaten up, raped, have to do something violent to prove your loyalty) you can never get out. Heartbreaking. I'm glad the MPD is on it. As you are new to the neighborhood you probably don't know there used to be point blank executions in a lot of the little parks, and that Malcolm X/ Meridian Hill Park used to be nicknamed Murder Park for the violence there. Gang (not just Latino) and drug related.[/quote]
PP you responded to. I've been here long enough to know better and am not a newcomer. Likewise, I work as an acute care healthcare provider at a local trauma center and care for victims of violence (gang-related and not). I don't need you to educate me what I know from my personal and professional experience.

The drive-by you referenced (which has no hard evidence of being gang-related, but could be) occurred in NE DC, 8+ miles from the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant. You then made the false correlation of that tragedy being related to the "very criminal enriched activity hotbeds" of Mount Pleasant and Columbia Heights. Perhaps you should get your neighborhoods and geography straight.

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I was responding to the title of the the thread referencing Mt. Pleasant, as were you. Thanks for your efforts in healthcare. And you are correct, Mt. pleasant has gotten far more hipster/far less violent--which is not to say gang activity is gone. Some has just moved, perhaps to NE DC? That is a side effect of gentrification, which Mt. Pleasant saw at breakneck speed in the 90s. 
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