It's not safe for me as a biker, that's for sure!

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

And we know you like to put your politically correct head in the sand when there is an obvious crime problem caused by these kids.

Which kids? Be specific. And don't just say "students," because everyone on earth knows what you actually mean.

Come on, tell us who you're specifically talking about! You're dying to do it! Just let it all out.

Not PP but they are referring to impoverished teens. You are upset and calling it racist because the majority of the impoverished teens in inner cities in America happen to be black. This is the reality. In rural areas like Appalachia the impovershed teens that do bad things are white. This is how it is in America and this truth isn’t racist or not racist, it just is the way it is.

PP may or may or may not be racist depending on whether it is their blackness / black culture that bothers them or if it is simply the fact that they act unruly, commit crimes, etc.

This is a dumb back and forth. Not everyone is a racist.

And before you get on me, I am a black guy born and raised in DC and am tired
Of car jacking teens and it has nothing to do with race. I’m not an Uncle Tom or self-racist so keep your crazy ideas to yourself— I dislike anyone committing crimes. The topic of generational poverty and the underlying causes of the dynamic that exists is a different topic.

Anonymous wrote:I currently live EOTP and am considering a move west. I know crime is increasing there too, particularly by metro stops, but I wanted to get a sense of whether people who live there FEEL safe. For example, do you feel safe in your house but not by the metro or on main streets where restaurants etc are located? Or do you feel completely safe still?

I’m pretty sure we’re neighbors OP, and I don’t get why you’d move WOTP. I get why you’d move, we’re thinking about it too. But either things will get better in DC, in which case our neighborhood will go back to its “normal” (still elevated IMHO) level of crime, or they won’t, in which case WOTP is going to slide into the muck with the rest of us. If it’s time to move, it’s time to leave DC.

Unless you’re a renter, in which case, have at it.

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

And we know you like to put your politically correct head in the sand when there is an obvious crime problem caused by these kids.

Which kids? Be specific. And don't just say "students," because everyone on earth knows what you actually mean.

Come on, tell us who you're specifically talking about! You're dying to do it! Just let it all out.

Black and white kids

Are you happy?

It’s not earth shattering info

Anonymous wrote:There was a fight with a knife in front of CVS in May. There is a thread on it.

And just this. Violent crime and other criminal offenses are happening with increasing regularity, including up and down Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenues.

"Suspects Sought in an Armed Robbery (Knife) Offense: 3400 Block of Connecticut Ave, Northwest
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department's Second District seek the public’s assistance in locating suspects in reference to an Armed Robbery of an Establishment (Knife) offense that occurred on Monday, July 31, 2023, in the 3400 Block of Connecticut Ave, Northwest.

At approximately 9:40 pm, the suspects entered an establishment at the listed location. Once inside, the suspects approached an employee and brandished a knife. The suspects took property then fled the scene."

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

And we know you like to put your politically correct head in the sand when there is an obvious crime problem caused by these kids.

Which kids? Be specific. And don't just say "students," because everyone on earth knows what you actually mean.

Come on, tell us who you're specifically talking about! You're dying to do it! Just let it all out.

I'm not going to participate in your stupidity or racism.

There was a fight with a knife in front of CVS in May. There is a thread on it.

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

And we know you like to put your politically correct head in the sand when there is an obvious crime problem caused by these kids.

Which kids? Be specific. And don't just say "students," because everyone on earth knows what you actually mean.

Come on, tell us who you're specifically talking about! You're dying to do it! Just let it all out.

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

And we know you like to put your politically correct head in the sand when there is an obvious crime problem caused by these kids.

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

It's that teenagers are hooligans.

Anonymous wrote:If you even have to ask the question you're not going to feel safe anywhere.

Focus on therapy for anxiety and paranoia instead of where to live.

This is a stupid comment.

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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.

What should we be asking these businesses and librarians and Metro workers? Be specific, and say what you really mean. Don't be afraid to unburden your true feellings here, we all know you really, really want to.

I have lived on one part or another of the Connecticut Avenue corridor for over 40 years and never felt unsafe at any level, either along the Avenue or in the greater "upper causcasia" as the City Paper termed it.

Then again, there aren't many parts of DC proper that I feel unsafe but YMMV.

I wouldn't walk around at 2am, but I wouldn't do that anywhere. Otherwise, I feel completely safe in my neighborhood, including Tenley metro at school dismissal time.

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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.

You can't go around calling people racist just because they state the obvious. The cops know where the problems in Tenleytown stem from; the shopkeepers know; residents know; everyone knows...

DP. Nobody is doing that. The PP is calling people racist for saying things that are racist.

What words - please quote from the PP comment - are racist? Specific word/phrase?