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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I returned home from visiting family in Texas for about a week. It was so nice to have a stretch of time when I could exit my car without having to first look around for potential carjackers. [/quote]

I took am thinking of how we can get away as much as possible for this very reason. The sad thing is a lot of the people our feeble far left politicians represent don't have the resources to do that. They're trapped.[/quote]

We've been here 30+ years and thought we were lifers. Actively planning to move.

Genuinely felt safer in Adams Morgan in the 90s, crime was more predictable and daylight and witnesses were deterrents. Thought city life would give my kids freedom and transit options but metro is not nearly as safe as it was.

Living like this is stressful. 2 friends who live in nice condo buildings, one in FH and one in NoMA have had the building front doors crowbarred open and thieves roaming around, in one case, threatening people. The one in NoMA has had her condo for years but is going to take a hit selling it.

DC is an outlier re: crime trends. I'm not sure how those invested in denying it aggressively benefit. [/quote]

Another elephant in the room is that the council is propped up by a phalanx of super progressive ANC commissioners   Many of whom are childless and renters and largely insulated from the chaos. And in some cases are actively cheerleading these insane policies:

https://anc3c.org/documents/2021-012-in-support-of-proposals-by-dc-police-reform-commission-report/

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CP is off the chain[/quote]

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