Sounds like OP needs to move back to the ‘burbs. City living isn’t for delicate snowflakes like her.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles Allen has no interest in reducing crime. None.

His constituency is the woke advocacy groups. He dutifully and submissively implements their agenda, and they promise to be less mean to him. They won’t, but he is ever so hopeful.

You know no one takes you seriously when you describe anything as woke, right?

Let’s just pretend woke does not exist. Like Antifa or arson.

It’s all fake. Never happened.

ANC 6B01 Commissioner Denise Krepp would have been a very viable challenger to Allen, but she's about to get redistricted into Ward 7, even though sending her SMD out of Ward 6 is going to significantly reduce the number of Black and Brown voters in Allen's ward.

Allen has spent weeks blathering about not diluting minority voters' rights in the redistricting process, yet his ward is going to be getting a whole lot whiter. Plus, a possible primary opponent is going away.

Nothing fishy about that at all.

https://capitolhillcorner.org/2021/11/29/redistricting-plan-would-move-10-ward-6-anc-commissioners-to-other-wards/

Not to divert the thread here (and I agree w/ criticism of Allen as focused on criminals' rights more than victims of crime) but it's not just him. Brazen crime is up in parts of the city where it used to be uncommon. Just this morning in VanNess:

https://mobile.twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1465342258216120329

It's a citywide problem and requires citywide solutions, none of which are incompetent mayor or City Council seem capable of enacting.

Look to Philly (with its 500+ homicides this year alone and its "progressive" prosecutors) if you want to see DC's near future. . . .

Don't forget Allen is the guy who believes people's brains are not fully developed until age 25 and thus, cannot possibly be held responsible for decisions to murder or maim until that ripe age. He has pushed for extremely lenient sentencing for those under 25, and asked for early removal from incarceration while demanding that judges NOT have access to the criminal's actual crime when they're deciding who to release early (including violent rapists).

I've had emails back and forth with him, and he is a petty idiot who has no wish to truly engage with those holding different opinions. As someone who used to work in politics, I was kind of stunned at what an amateur he is when it comes to communicating with constituents. I know it's just the city level, but yikes.

Allen is a criminal apologist who doesn't give a damn about innocent victims. Those who support him at this point need to do some self evaluation.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually really like Charles Allen and think he is a nice guy and effective councilmember. He's also pretty smart and not batshit crazy, so that puts him out ahead of 75% of the council. That said, I think he will start to feel the tide turning in W6 in terms of safety being the overriding priority of his voter basis if violent crime keeps ticking up. He got caught off guard by the flip against the WTU/school closures when people got fed up, but he caught up quickly and flipped sides... I think he'll do the same here. He has pretty good political instincts.

Same here. I think he is paying attention.

I agree with this assessment of him. But also agree with the assessment that he has supported some very pro-criminal bills, pro catch-and-release, and will not vote for him again if he does not knock it off. I haven't been a donor to politicians before, but I would donate to a serious primary contender who had a plan to address the violence and keep violent offenders from being released. I fear that too many other members of the council are also pro-criminal for a different W6 member to effect change.

Charles Allen is a Fox News caricature of a city council member from D.C, San Francisco or Portland.

But until you vote him out, Ward 6, you've only yourselves to blame.

We've got our own problems here in Ward 4, with our godawful council member, who won with less than 20% of the vote.

The only way he'll start to take this seriously is if someone runs in the primary against him on a platform of public safety issues and does relatively well.

Too many self flagellating liberals willing to accept higher crime because "equity something something".

Another constituent who likes him and finds him to be a generally good Council Member - but who has had it with the crime.

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Anonymous wrote:Another day, another shooting on the Hill. 8th St and Florida Ave NE. Total silence from Allen.

That's not the Hill

If it's the south side of Florida, it is his ward, though. But I'm sure his thoughts and prayers are with the shooter no matter where it happened. The victim doesn't matter to him.

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another shooting on the Hill. 8th St and Florida Ave NE. Total silence from Allen.

That's not the Hill

Another day, another shooting on the Hill. 8th St and Florida Ave NE. Total silence from Allen.

Remember when he said the rise in armed carjackings was because the carjackers were just looking for someplace warm and we should be lenient toward them? That's basically his modus operandi: think of the criminals' welfare first and the victims' welfare last.

I really hoped he would run for mayor so he would have to give up his council seat and then would finish behind trayon in the primary, but I heard he was advised that he had no chance at even coming close to winning.

There has been a slew of armed carjackings (including stealing a car with a child in it), armed robberies, violent assaults and shootings this fall. Bowser should face political consequences for the insane crime in DC. Allen should be right behind her.

Anonymous wrote:There was an armed home invasion on Friday afternoon in Forest Hills. They caught one of the perps, who was 14. Any media report this? Of course not.

Is that in Ward 6?