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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many of the previous posters actually live in DC?  Or even in the greater DMV for that matter.

This website has been taken over by MAGA[/quote]

Agree. I live in DC with my kids. It isn’t a crime ridden hellhole as conservative media and Trump paint it.  Friends live on the block where Big Balls was attacked. There is rarely crime there.[/quote]

What?

I live in Shaw. There is such an unacceptable amount of crime here -- drug markets and people tweaking out, shootings, etc. it's real. No one in our neighborhood is unscathed -- everyone, including me, has a story about burglary, mugging, carjackings, witnessing people getting beat up.

There was a moment in 2012/2014 when i felt safe, but that's not true any more. It's slightly better than 2021 but it is still unacceptable. Whenever I leave and visit cities that are actually safe, I feel crazy for staying here.

We can't turn our knee-jerk anti Trumpism into a blindness about this problem.[/quote]

I am not blind. I just have not experience any crime beyond porch pirates. I feel safe enough to walk my puppy alone at night/early morning. There is very little crime in my area of DC.[/quote]

And yet I'm sure you will complain all day about speeding drivers, even though you're roughly a million times more likely to be murdered than be hit by a speeding driver. [/quote]

Say what?  The odds of being hit by a car are 1-in-4292 and it is higher in urban areas.  The odds of being murdered in DC are roughly equivalent, HOWEVER, 90% of all DC murders happen in Wards 7 & 8 east of the Anacostia river.  There have been an average of 2 murders in all of Ward 3 each year since 2021, with the most at 5 happening in 2015.

Neither event is super likely, but nobody who lives and mostly spends their time in Ward 3 (or Bethesda or Georgetown or other nice areas) has much risk of being murdered[/quote]

Even if you chalked up 90 percent of murders to Wards 7 and 8, people in other wards would still be more likely to be murdered than killed by speeding drivers. That’s how few people are killed by speeding drivers in this city. It is very, very rare. [/quote]

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