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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] This shooting had nothing at all to do with H Street. The only thing H Street's development has to do with LT is enabling a lot of on-street parking on the weekends.

There has been a large group of men who hang out daily in front of two houses on Morris for at least 10 years, drinking, smoking weed and generally being a public nuisance. The administration at LT looks away, the old neighbors never minded, the new neighbors have too much white guilt to call them in, and the police can't do anything about loitering and it's hard/not worth it to bust them for public drinking, etc.

The loiterers are rarely currently from the neighborhood -- they come back to their old stomping grounds and use NE as their open-air bar/men's club. Anyone who has attended a little league game or practice on a weeknight knows exactly who/how/where this shooting occurred.

This problem is not block-specific, it's house-specific. [/quote]

Thank you! It was odd to hear folks say they live on the "good" block of Capitol Hill where there is rarely any crime (unlike the crime on H Street.) Very odd!  In this particular instance, the crime followed nearby residents (whom we have to remember were victims as well). Doing drugs out in public shouldn't be tolerated so I agree that police should be called. However, the neighbors need to be on the same page because if they have been doing this for 10 years they won't appreciate new neighbors coming in to tell what to do. [/quote]

I didn't read the original post to be claiming there are good blocks and bad blocks at all.  I read it to mean that H St. is a known gathering place of, shall we say, undesirables, and that sometimes their activities bleed--no pun intended--into the surrounding blocks.

Have you ever walked down H St. during the day?   Lots of loitering.  G St., not at all.  As much as people want to think of H as having been gentrified it still has a long way to go.[/quote]

That is NOT true. There is a lot of loitering btw 5th and 6th on G, another "bad house" similar to the one where the shooting happened. There is more loitering on G for the community center, Sherwood. There is even more a few blocks further east. I see it every day. [/quote]

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