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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was another armed robbery spree throughout Ward 4 last night with hits on military road and elsewhere.

Thankfully, and despite JLG’s continued effort to undermine their work, MPD arrested one of the suspects today.[/quote]

Oh okay I get it.  If it is bad, then we should lay that at the feet of JLG.  If it is good, then clearly it happened in spite of her being present on this planet.

Makes sense.  Let's call it the JLG-centric Theory of the Bad-verse.  You read it first on DCUM, folks![/quote]

When you have a leader who is explicitly anti-police, it is no surprise that armed crime sprees become a weekly commonplace in Ward 4.[/quote]

Not just anti-police. She is the face of defunding the police. She wants to gut the police department. She's not shy about it. [/quote]

The beauty of democracy is that I can vote for her, and understand that this whole thing is not true, no matter how many times you say it.[/quote]

If you’re still alive to do so. Living in Ward 4, we’re taking our chances every day. [/quote]

Tell me again you don't understand actual risk.  You're more likely to get hurt driving around your new suburbs.  Good luck![/quote]

I’m a different poster. Still in Ward 4 but hoping we see real change soon.

Dismissing 4 armed robberies on a mathematical level of “risk assessment” is beyond pathetic and shows why crime is so rampant.[/quote]

I'm all about dealing with the issue.  I'm just not ok with hyperbole.  It's ok to feel upset about crime, I do too.  We just need to deal with it rationally.[/quote]

NP but can I ask what crime has happened in your neighborhood? Because in my neighborhood in a three week period there was an armed robbery on the corner at 5 pm, a helicopter filled police manhunt that ended with a guy handcuffed to my next door neighbor’s fence while police dogs sniffed around our garbages, and a person was car jacked and seriously injured a few blocks away.  I am not prone to hyperbole but this really brings me pause.  On top of the two shootings near my kid’s school that led to lockdowns last spring, the biker who was shot and killed and the people stealing frenchies.[/quote]

Sounds like my neighborhood.  It also sounds not drastically different from what we've been living around the entire time we've been in DC.  I'm not indifferent to it - it's something that needs serious attention.  But what I see more and more of are fearful and irrational responses to it.  I'm just not going to get on board with that.  I want our political leaders to address crime.  [b]But I don't want feel-good policies that actually do more harm than good.[/b]

Pause is good.  The feelings (fear, anger) are real - I feel them too.  But we need.to use our brains, not just emotions.[/quote]

That's exactly what the Council delivered post-2020. It led to an additional 150-200 murders annually.

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