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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the geographic sampling of the poll is suspect.

I live in a ward 5 neighborhood closer to the river than North Cap. There is no question that crime has gotten worse in the last 3 years. Like it’s not debatable. And I definitely have safety concerns. It’s hard to summarize it as “feel safe” or “feel unsafe” because certain things get normalized for you. Like witnessing drug activity, hearing gun shots, etc. I know there’s a lot of stuff that goes on in my neighborhood that would make family and friends who live elsewhere feel unsafe, but I’ve acclimated to it. I don’t think that’s great.

Also, two notes:
- We notice a lot of spillover from crime in PG County where we are. This has always been true, but it seems like that’s gotten worse too. Like we hear more often about police pursuing suspects in our neighborhood for crimes in PG, including places like Hyattsville or Cheverly where we gave friends and generallly consider relatively safe. The carjackings especially, there’s an uptick. If you look at crime stats in DC without looking at some close in suburbs where there is spillover, you miss a lot about citizens actual exposure to crime.

- I have not seen stats (would like to) but the criminal behavior of minors, especially in the 10-14 range (so kids, no older teens) just seems so much worse than it used to. Really feel this must be related to prolonged school closures. I just think a lot of kids stopped going to school and never went back, or spent that time around family and friends who were bad role models. I don’t understand why this isn’t talked about more, like the impact of school closures on low income families, or families in neighborhoods with a lot of crime, is obvious.[/quote]

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