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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone with inside knowledge willing to share what can be done to reduce/end gun violence on the streets of Columbia Heights?

I've lived in Columbia Heights for about 25 years. I think the main root of the gun violence is the drug and gun sales happening in the building and parking lot of the apartments at 14th and Fairmont Streets. All these years, I've been on friendly speaking terms with the man who stands on the 1400 block of Fairmont every day -- he sells guns -- and he has warned me to never, never go into that parking lot. Now, I doubt any of this is news to the police or prosecutor's office. They do arrest people there and convict people of crimes. But the decades go by and nothing changes and I'm frustrated. When I talk with my neighbors about it, no one has any hope that it will get better.

A friend on the 1300 block on Fairmont was nervous that he wouldn't be able to sell his home because there were gunshots on the street every day that he held an open house. It took a month but he sold it, top dollar.

Before anyone asks, I am an active community member. I mentor teens, attend a local church, and donate to local nonprofits. I'm fully rooted here. What I would like to see change is that parking lot closed and the schools (Tubman and Cardozo) completely, radically transformed, in order to reach the kids and get them focused on a positive life.[/quote]

I hate to break it to you, but unless they bulldoze the projects in the greater CH area and redevelop those properties, nothing is going to change.[/quote]

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