Anonymous
Post 08/22/2023 13:15     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
I'm furious too, but I have no plans to leave and yes, I actually feel safe. I have a real problem with having a District MPD and a federal criminal justice system. I have never understood why people keep supporting Bowser or many members of the council. It makes me crazy!

Stop supporting these people!
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2023 12:00     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:I don’t feel as safe as I used to in NW, where I’ve lived for 40 years. I no longer walk in my neighborhood after dark, I stay away from Columbia Heights at all hours, and I’m beginning to avoid Van Ness as much as possible. If it gets any worse I will probably move. I’m furious with Bowser and the City Council for the voucher fiasco and the laissez-faire attitude on crime.


This is how I feel.

Graduated from AU in 91 and rented in Glover, Adams-Morgan, etc.

We are going to move. This city is being led in the wrong direction with regard to crime.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2023 09:28     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No part of the city -- or anywhere -- is "completely" safe. But Upper NW is very, very safe compared with nearly every other part of DC.

And you can safely ignore the "Tenleytown is a crime-ridden hellscape when J-R lets out in the afternoon" mouth-breathers who soon will be brigading this thread.


So the PP is the mom of JR students? OP - do ask each and every business around JR their opinion on this topic that PP raises. Ask the librarians across the street. Ask the Metro workers. Due diligence from independent sources will educate you on JR and its impact on Tenlytown.


Like clockwork, the racists emerge.


I am _classist_ and a neighbor of JR and Deal. I loathe the after school hour around CVS. Occasionally I will succumb and watch the shoplifting train wreck anyway while I’m waiting for a prescription. Then I head home past the drug dealers hanging in the bushes around the “vape” store. So vibrant!


No you're racist. You have no black or brown freinds at all.


NP. Are you a Russian troll or just an idiot. Ot better yet a bot who was trained to type “ racist” when anyone laments the increasing crime rate in DC. And grow the f up. Signed DC resident for 23 years.


I think I can accurately answer your question — the person in question is an idiot.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2023 06:51     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No part of the city -- or anywhere -- is "completely" safe. But Upper NW is very, very safe compared with nearly every other part of DC.

And you can safely ignore the "Tenleytown is a crime-ridden hellscape when J-R lets out in the afternoon" mouth-breathers who soon will be brigading this thread.


So the PP is the mom of JR students? OP - do ask each and every business around JR their opinion on this topic that PP raises. Ask the librarians across the street. Ask the Metro workers. Due diligence from independent sources will educate you on JR and its impact on Tenlytown.


Like clockwork, the racists emerge.


I am _classist_ and a neighbor of JR and Deal. I loathe the after school hour around CVS. Occasionally I will succumb and watch the shoplifting train wreck anyway while I’m waiting for a prescription. Then I head home past the drug dealers hanging in the bushes around the “vape” store. So vibrant!


No you're racist. You have no black or brown freinds at all.


NP. Are you a Russian troll or just an idiot. Ot better yet a bot who was trained to type “ racist” when anyone laments the increasing crime rate in DC. And grow the f up. Signed DC resident for 23 years.
Anonymous
Post 08/22/2023 06:47     Subject: Re:Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:There are different property crimes everywhere, but I feel safe in NW. In 1980s through mid 1990s, in Cleveland park, my house was broken into 3 times. Once by axing through a substantially heavy front door to override alarm somehow. All were day time robberies when house empty. I’ve lived in my current house in Chevy Chase, DC since mid 90s and have always felt safe, but things still happen and there has been an increase lately. I the late 90s, neighbors and I both had daytime break ins with minor things stolen, but nothing since in terms of break ins. However, in the last year, my car’s airbag was stolen, neighbors have had airbags and catalytic converters stolen, there have been armed car jackings within a few blocks in two directions and two nearby CVS locations and the Safeway have had multiple smash and grab robberies. There have also been smash and grab robberies nearby in Friendship Heights.

You feel safe with multiple daytime break ins of your house? WTF?
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 12:15     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
For the most part, yes.
Anonymous
Post 08/21/2023 08:06     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
I generally feel safe, but there are more vagrants loitering around, real problems with voucher recipients in apartment buildings, and an uptick in crime. Just in the past few days, I've started to see more of a police presence. Let's hope it continues and that they move the loitering group along. Smoking weed and panhandling on the street is not legal.
Anonymous
Post 08/16/2023 17:49     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
The racists emerge?

Ever wonder why the high schools EOTR are perpetually under enrolled and everyone tries to send their kid to Jackson-Reed or are one of those white progressives that either doesn’t have children or will flee to Chevy Chase when they’re born?
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2023 21:07     Subject: Re:Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Lol this must be a troll post. Are you trying to impact real estate prices in Tenleytown? Good luck
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2023 19:44     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can tell you weren't around then if you think Tenleytown is worse than in the early 90s.


Things are worse in Tenleytown now. Some things you see now you didn't see then:

- Vagrants sleeping on the middle of the sidewalk with their pants down.

- Vagrants wandering around the neighborhood in the middle of the night trying to get into different establishments.

I also saw tents in Fort Reno the other day - are vagrants living there now?


Then move

DC is far better than it was in the 80s and 90s. It’s a world class city compared to a sleepy government town.

Growing pains are occurring but hopefully they clamp down on crime


No, it’s a freaking dump now. All over the city there is crime. The trash that used to stay in their own neighborhoods creates havoc all over - a bus driver was stabbed at Farragut Square last night and an Exxon at Connecticut and Nebraska in Upper NW was just robbed at gunpoint just a few days ago. If only the trash would stay in their own hoods and take out their violence on each other, it would be like the 90s, but now no one is safe anywhere in DC. Congress should take over and give Bowser the boot because she isn’t up to the task of being mayor AT ALL.
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2023 19:04     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:The people in Chevy Chase should fight the proposed shelter with every bone in their NIMBY body. Cathedral Commons is turning into a 💩 show. We’ve had a few stabbings and the crowd that hangs outside is stunning especially the guy who stood outside of the Giant today and told everyone to ……..his…..


There isn't a shelter proposed for Chevy Chase. There's a vague plan to build some affordable housing units on the rec center site. The fact that there have been stabbings elsewhere is not at all a good argument against building affordable housing there.
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2023 17:52     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No part of the city -- or anywhere -- is "completely" safe. But Upper NW is very, very safe compared with nearly every other part of DC.

And you can safely ignore the "Tenleytown is a crime-ridden hellscape when J-R lets out in the afternoon" mouth-breathers who soon will be brigading this thread.


So the PP is the mom of JR students? OP - do ask each and every business around JR their opinion on this topic that PP raises. Ask the librarians across the street. Ask the Metro workers. Due diligence from independent sources will educate you on JR and its impact on Tenlytown.


Like clockwork, the racists emerge.


Sounds like you're the racist here?
Anonymous
Post 08/15/2023 17:47     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
The people in Chevy Chase should fight the proposed shelter with every bone in their NIMBY body. Cathedral Commons is turning into a 💩 show. We’ve had a few stabbings and the crowd that hangs outside is stunning especially the guy who stood outside of the Giant today and told everyone to ……..his…..
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 10:10     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
I live in NE and have never felt unsafe. I also live in a VERY sleepy part of town. The only place that I've EVER felt unsafe was when I turned of off MLK Drive in Anacostia one time. That scared me. Otherwise, I feel completely fine, even in Anacostia.
Anonymous
Post 08/14/2023 09:55     Subject: Do you feel safe in upper northwest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I can tell you weren't around then if you think Tenleytown is worse than in the early 90s.


Things are worse in Tenleytown now. Some things you see now you didn't see then:

- Vagrants sleeping on the middle of the sidewalk with their pants down.

- Vagrants wandering around the neighborhood in the middle of the night trying to get into different establishments.

I also saw tents in Fort Reno the other day - are vagrants living there now?


Then move

DC is far better than it was in the 80s and 90s. It’s a world class city compared to a sleepy government town.

Growing pains are occurring but hopefully they clamp down on crime


Not PP but I hate it when people say "just move." I want to live in DC. I know its problems are going to come and go but I'm allowed to point out trends that I think are problematic and that I think the government should fix so that I (and other residents like me) can continue to enjoy the city.