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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's be honest - dispense with the talk about "family freindly neighborhoods" "more police resources" blah blah. The truth of the matter is that, although this was violence between folks from other neighborhoods, the upper SES White folks in Woodley Park are disturbed that they got a taste of something that normally occurs in other places in the District. Fine. I have no probelm with that. But I expect you all to be equally as vocal in discussing things like the shooting near Ballou or the girl in SE who was accidentally shot a few weeks ago. I live in upper NW just east of 16th street and I am equally as disturbed by these incidents. Here is the difference. You are saying that "we don't want that crap in our neighborhood." The rest of us are saying "To hell with that, we do not want that crap in our City!" Many of us are cynical because many of you are giving the impression that you only give a hoot about your neighborhood. May not be the intent, but that is the way it comes across. [/quote] I think people have the right to care more about what happens in their neighborhood than across town. People moved to that neighborhood for a reason, they don't want to be near high-crime areas, and so of course they don't like it when the crime comes to them. If there was homegrown crime in that area, I'd bet the neighborhood would feel just as strongly and try to fix it. Other parts of the city should care more about the crime in their neighborhoods and work to fix it. Or leave, if they don't want to be in a crime-ridden neighborhood.[/quote] That's fine...but then again people have the right to "write-off" a few isolated incidents in your neighborhood - one that is nornally immune to these things. Also, it a poor assumption to imply that people in other parts of the District do not care and are not working to fix crime in their neighborhoods. Heck, crime is NOT an issue in my neighborhood at all, but even I know that there are others throughout the District who deal with this every day and are trying to fix it every day. Feel blessed that you have mobility and means. You would not know because you are exercising your right to only care about Woodley Park. [/quote] How do you know this poster is only exercising his/her right to ONLY care about Woodley Park? You know this because they are engaging on this thread about this topic and not at the same time raising crime in other places? Maybe the person just cares more about crime in their backyard - who doesn't? Again, it doesn't mean they don't care about crime elsewhere too.[/quote]
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