Reply to Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down. [/quote]

Trend downward? Uuuuh.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance[/quote]

Yes, the trend was decreasing crime rates before the pandemic. Look at the #s at the bottom. It was even worse in the 80s/90s.

[img]https://media.wusa9.com/assets/WUSA/images/8458de85-ac72-456c-9c53-02638bfd7f32/8458de85-ac72-456c-9c53-02638bfd7f32_1140x641.png[/img]
[/quote]

Jesus Christ.  This never ending comparison to the 80s and 90s is so dumb.  That was 30-40 years ago.  All that matters most to the most people is the delta over more recent time points.  It has gotten far worse over the last 5-10 years.  Yeah, let me cherry pick and only focus on the worst time points in the history of the area to use as a selective baseline for comparison so that comparisons to then will show it is never bad.  Do a multiple time point comparison to 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, and now.  You can see everything is slipping again. [/quote]

The thread specifically asks this question of long term residents -- so the 80s and 90s are exactly what we're talking about in this particular thread. Yes, crime is getting out of control and the city needs to step up; but also yes, we are nowhere near what it was like when we moved here during the Barry years, and we don't want to to get that way again. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics