Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What actions should the city, police, mayor, and citizens take to address what's going on around this corner?

90% of DCUM respondents will imply or overtly suggest bringing back segregation.

I am fine with the police, policing. If you are dealing drugs (which is not allowed under DCs dexriminalizing law), jacking cars, etc. You should be policed. I also understand the pressures police feel today to not profile etc. Therre should be highly trained DC response teams with paid infomrants, undercover cops, cameras blanketing the city, body cameras and specific training in responding to the crime so they have everything they need to apporach and solve it, while remaining beyond reproach themselves. A lot of the police task forces have been dismanlted, and the result is there is little motivation for police to jump on these pesky situations.

The mayor should be on this. Where is Bowser? (In Ward 4, I know.)

It will be interesting to see if the cops aim to break up the people loitering on this corner.

I’ve seen this exact thing in NYC: cops don’t mess with guys hanging out on a corner slinging drugs (“if we break this up they’ll just move somewhere else”), but once there’s a shooting especially in a rich area the cops will aim to break it up.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

It's still poor people, the vast majority of color. It's tied to low income housing along the 14th Street corridor, running from U Street up thru Columbia Heights. It's actually the greatest concentration of low income housing in the city.

Also, until recently, Marthas Table was right next to this intersection. People who relied on MT for social services still hang out around the area, even though their services have migrated to Anacostia. Routines don't change, especially if their housing is nearby.

Poor people are not the chief purchasers/users of drugs in the city.

Maybe not, but they are the ones shooting each other.

I'm surprised nobody has blamed the police for this shooting

Anonymous wrote:Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

Yes, according to DC law they should.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

It's still poor people, the vast majority of color. It's tied to low income housing along the 14th Street corridor, running from U Street up thru Columbia Heights. It's actually the greatest concentration of low income housing in the city.

Also, until recently, Marthas Table was right next to this intersection. People who relied on MT for social services still hang out around the area, even though their services have migrated to Anacostia. Routines don't change, especially if their housing is nearby.

Poor people are not the chief purchasers/users of drugs in the city.

They are on this particular street corner in broad daylight. I've seen it multiple times.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

It's still poor people, the vast majority of color. It's tied to low income housing along the 14th Street corridor, running from U Street up thru Columbia Heights. It's actually the greatest concentration of low income housing in the city.

Also, until recently, Marthas Table was right next to this intersection. People who relied on MT for social services still hang out around the area, even though their services have migrated to Anacostia. Routines don't change, especially if their housing is nearby.

Poor people are not the chief purchasers/users of drugs in the city.

Anonymous wrote:Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

It's still poor people, the vast majority of color. It's tied to low income housing along the 14th Street corridor, running from U Street up thru Columbia Heights. It's actually the greatest concentration of low income housing in the city.

Also, until recently, Marthas Table was right next to this intersection. People who relied on MT for social services still hang out around the area, even though their services have migrated to Anacostia. Routines don't change, especially if their housing is nearby.

Anonymous wrote:What if you built condos on top of the actual corner with a tunnel for cars?

This basically describes North Capitol. It's still a damn mess of drunk & disorderly conduct, plus drugs and shootings.

What if you built condos on top of the actual corner with a tunnel for cars?

Should people buying drugs be policed? Seems as if you’re selling drugs at 14th and V there is a specific demographic being accommodated... and it’s not poor people of color... ijs...

What does this have to do with DCPS?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What actions should the city, police, mayor, and citizens take to address what's going on around this corner?

90% of DCUM respondents will imply or overtly suggest bringing back segregation.

I am fine with the police, policing. If you are dealing drugs (which is not allowed under DCs dexriminalizing law), jacking cars, etc. You should be policed. I also understand the pressures police feel today to not profile etc. Therre should be highly trained DC response teams with paid infomrants, undercover cops, cameras blanketing the city, body cameras and specific training in responding to the crime so they have everything they need to apporach and solve it, while remaining beyond reproach themselves. A lot of the police task forces have been dismanlted, and the result is there is little motivation for police to jump on these pesky situations.

Anonymous wrote:What actions should the city, police, mayor, and citizens take to address what's going on around this corner?

90% of DCUM respondents will imply or overtly suggest bringing back segregation.

Actually I think this is the only place this shooting is being discussed

On Monday Feb 17th evening there was a double shooting at the intersection of 14th and V Streets Northwest.

I know this is being talked about in the other thread, but I think it's useful to have a separate thread for this one.
It's a high-profile event and there are a lot of photos floating around.
And related, we should talk about DCPS policy here in this thread. Anytime the weather is warm, there's a group selling drugs at the corner of 14th and V (southwest corner, between 14th and 15th). I've been offered quite a few times walking past.

The police seem uninterested in the drug-selling. My experience is that police in cities often won't do anything about it until it results in violence, and then they'll break it up and move people elsewhere.

Is that what we want? There's a fine line here between the police harassing young black men by profiling them and the police working to stop drug dealing (and often-associated crew/gang activity.)

Let's first stipulate: we don't know the shooting and the drug activity is related, but even if they're not, we can focus on the drug activity near this corner.

I don't know what the answer is here but it's striking that the mayor apparently has little answer for this.

Let's try to keep conversation constructive: what actions should the city, police, mayor, and citizens take to address what's going on around this corner?






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