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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t forget the fact that Ward 3 also “welcomes” PIA on Wisconsin Ave near Van Ness.  This piece of our urban vibrant tapestry serves as DC’s privatised psycho facility for violent offenders.  It sometimes has a police car that sits outside, after some of the involuntarily committed guests voluntarily checked themselves out.  A facility like this should sit inside a fenced and secured perimeter, not on an avenue near several schools and neighborhoods.  [b]Most nearby residents probably have no idea[/b].[/quote]

Doesn't that suggest that there are no issues with the facility? (Which is PIW by the way)

There is a halfway house a couple of blocks away that has been operating for decades without any issues - this is not a neighborhood where people silently suffer (as evidenced by this thread) so I think it is possible you are dramatic rather than accurate?[/quote]

Please. Horseshit.  "Most" nearby residents with eyes and a modicum of critical thinking ability certainly acknowledge an increase in disturbed people loitering along the Wisconsin corridor. Families, the patient's running buddies and patient escorts linger around PIW itself. Patients released from their 2-day holds loiter in the immediate area. Occasionally, a guy will get to leave PIW AMA and now he's our guest.

Does every 20016/20008 resident immediately associate these fine individuals with PIW, vs. the vape shops vs. the pocket parks where the wild-eyed men sleep and hang? No, but you can be sure we know they'e _there_. And they weren't there 7 years ago -- at ALL.

re: the Friendship house ... their "issues" are externalities that impact neighbors up and down 41st st, especially.  Bottles of piss, stolen pink tween bikes later seen in the possession of 45 yr old men, etc. Lethal? No, but let's not claim naively that the place doesn't induce any "issues" that affect its neighbors. [/quote]

Friendship Place is not a halfway house so alas you just proved my point.

Also have never heard any of these complaints about Friendship Place and I know it well because I walk down 41st almost every day on the way from the Metro to my house.[/quote]

Point to the exact place in my post above where I label Friendship a "halfway house" ?

Right, so no gotcha there. I know it's not a drug rehab residence, duh. It nevertheless creates externalities that are generally in the qualit- of-life domain, with some minor property crime thrown in.

Just because you personally haven't had your child's bike stolen off the porch, only to be seen a week later in the company of an adult man headed to Friendship on 41st ... doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

But to be fair, this sort of stuff is small potatoes compared to the other deterioration I described in my PP.  [/quote]

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