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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down. [/quote]

Trend downward? Uuuuh.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance[/quote]

Yes, the trend was decreasing crime rates before the pandemic. Look at the #s at the bottom. It was even worse in the 80s/90s.

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This is only useful when it's shown with absolute number of crimes. [/quote]

DP. No, it’s not just an issue with number of crimes. It seems like the data analysts do not have the intelligence or power to factor in other real world incidences like the randomness of crime. I moved here in the ‘80s. As a single white woman, you basically did not go anywhere except far upper NW unless it was to go down town, visit Capitol Hill and the urban pioneers living there, or to get some guys to take you to Tracks.

Then the city improved under Tony Williams.

Since the end of the pandemic, things are off the rails. If you had told me back then that carjackings and armed robberies would become weekly or monthly occurrences in the best parts of the city and [b]its once sancrodanct adjacent towns, villages, and cities[/b], I would have never believed it. We are staying put for now, but my days of blithely walking home from dinner out are over. [/quote]

sacrosanct
1: most sacred or holy : inviolable
2: treated as if holy : immune from criticism or violation

Why were Friendship Heights, the Chevy Chases, and Bethesda "sacrosanct"?[/quote]

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