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Black and the victim both appear to live EOTP. Concerningly Black or S2 used a key card to enter The Saratoga just before the shooting although neither is believed to live there. That gets into the door control issue from the WP article

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/

The victim was on life support for 48 hours, needed surgery and was in the hospital 9 days. Shame Black can't be made to repay those costs from funds earned in prison. He was in violation of conditions of a plea deal from April 2023, felon in possession case, so hopefully will be off the streets for a while. It sounds as though there are witnesses and video. It also reads as though Black has associates in The Brandywine, a neighbor mentioned a large LE presence there after the shooting too. It is surreal that they then left across Forest Hills playground. 
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So he didn't live in the area, yet had key card access to The Saratoga and connections to The Brandywine. This really highlights the problem of how the voucher program can bring criminals to a neighborhood, even if you're able to fully completely screen and support the individual applicant (which the city isn't, at this point). Many of these people are coming from places where they're surrounded by criminal acquaintances, and giving them unsupervised access to apartments often means the acquaintances come along as well. The Washington Post article you linked to does a great job of covering this, I suggest everyone read it.

Frumin saying that we'll see whether or not the criminals are voucher recipients (when many of them aren't official recipients, but are tagging along with the recipients) or suggesting the solution is more services to the individual (which are often ignored, and have no connection to criminal friends) really demonstrates how little thought he's given this issue. I get that people like him in upper NW single-family homes, or the 20-year old transplants with no kids moving into hip neighborhoods, don't have any clue about the working class families that have traditionally lived in many of these apartments. So they can virtue signal about vouchers while they put into place a program that chases these families out.[/quote]

It’s been incredible to see how tone deaf Frumin is and it’s clear he will not moderate his position on vouchers.  We’re at the point when public shaming might be the only tactic left.  Judging from some of the parents who spoke up at the recent meetings we may already be there. [/quote]

I have written him re this very issue and he has not even deigned to respond. Incredibly frustrating. I guess he is waiting for this to blow over, but sorry we are past the tipping point.[/quote]

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