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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get mugged in "nice" areas like the Hill because criminals know that people there have cash/iphones/etc in their pockets.  I live in a truly terrible neighborhood, and NO ONE gets mugged.  Shot, yes, but not mugged.  [/quote]Exactly. The shootings concern me but those assaults are between people who know each other. [/quote]

That's not true.  What about that young father that had his head bashed in.[/quote]Yes, he was hurt badly in a robbery just like David Rosenbaum was killed in a robbery in upper NW and a man in Georgetown was also killed trying to keep his friend from being robbed several years ago and a guy who was being robbed outside the National Democratic Women's Club in Dupont Circle was also shot and killed. People get hurt and even killed in robberies.  But the people I have just mentioned, including Mr. Maslin who had his head bashed in, were all attacked in nice neighborhoods.  Mr. Maslin was walking through the nice section of Capitol Hill where people think they are safer than if they are walking by Potomac Gardens, the "bad" section of Capitol Hill.

But the [i]shootings[/i] to which the pp is referring, take place in the "bad" section of Capitol Hill and are primarily (okay, should have qualified it) between people who are trying to get back at someone they know.  The latest vicious attacks on strangers (Maslin, the Congresswoman, the elderly man) all took place in sections of Capitol Hill that people think are safer than the section by Potomac Gardens.

But that's okay - people love to think that if they can't actually [i]see[/i] public housing from their front porch that somehow they're safer.  You can go on thinking that - just be careful when you're walking home from all the new fashionable restaurants and bars because you're not.

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