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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The sad thing is that Tenley will fall even further. As bad as it is - it will get worse.  The Wilson students and the aggressive homeless everywhere will further decrease foot traffic, which in turn will eliminate any business from wanting to invest in operations there.   The Target smells like urine and the library is strewn with garbage and randoms hanging out - eyeballing everyone who enters.  
But as a plus - DC has very important street graffiti which gave Bowser her 10 seconds of national fame.  She is responsible for the city’s decline. [/quote]

What are you talking about? I'm in both Target & the library with my kids a couple if times a week and neither of your allegations are at all true.

There are some Jackson-Reed students who get a little too rowdy in the afternoons but I've never had any issues with aggressive homeless folks either.

Betting you are an insecure private school parent who drives thru the neighborhood going to & from your kids school who never sets foot on the street.[/quote]

You underscore another issue - very low expectations of public spaces and public schools.  Very low.  [/quote]

DC residents have become used to defining deviancy down.[/quote]

It was really scary to me when fellow DC residents were normalizing/defending the riots and looting. I knew a ton of people who "explained/justified".  Protests yes, but defending vandalism? Everything took a turn then . If you can justify smashing plate glass windows, harassing diners, flash mobs stealing or stopping traffic and banging on car windows, you were basically laying a welcome mat out. And then all the subsequent policy changes confirmed that. [/quote]

This again.

There were no riots.

There were so few incidents of vandalism that you barely need more than one hand to count them and none of them even had a nexus to any of the BLM protests that were going on and were just opportunistic thugs taking advantage of the police focusing their attention elsewhere.

In case you are wondering I went downtown regularly during the demonstrations and two of the store robberies happened within 2 blocks of where I live and I was even home that night and my family is completely fine as is everyone else![/quote]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/3rd-day-george-floyd-protests-washington-dc/2318177/[/quote]

There were many incidents of vandalism and harrassment and looting. There were also peaceful protests. The latter is just fine, the former was lawless --the beginning of the era of lawlessness IMO.[/quote]

Interesting that people have decided that the protests against police violence were what kicked off "the era of lawlessness" rather than, say, the year and a half of complete disruption to normal society and the economy from the pandemic (which obviously spanned the entire duration of the BLM protest). [/quote]

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