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[quote=Anonymous]It's really about expectations. In the '90s I simply never went to Shaw, Columbia Heights, or U Street. I didn't even like to drive through those areas on my commute home. While those areas were awful, the crime didn't really affect me, a white middle-class guy. Now the city is much more demographically mixed, and crime affects all demographics. In addition, there was the expectation of constant improvement in the 2000's - the question was "what's the next neighborhood to improve?". It's sad to see so many parts of the city slipping backwards, even if statistically they are still safer than the nadir of the early 1990's. [/quote]
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