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Anonymous wrote:Trump, please Make DC Great Again!

This. It’s time we make it look presentable to the world as our nation’s capital. No more people being afraid to take Metro to go to work or avoid going into the city altogether. Do something about tent compounds too, they are now permanent “housing” in the city and highways and bridges. Even in premium neighborhoods, there are intersections that had become permanent camp grounds.

Anyone objecting this should move to Portland and have at it. We don’t want Portland here and we already have Baltimore.

What are you even talking about? When were last in DC?

It's DOWN 12% so far under Trump, moron.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro in DC is bad too. On two separate occasions kids tried to rob a person and after a scuffle finding out the victim is a FBI agent going to work. A government employee, minding his own business, taking the Metro to work gets picked on.
Yeah, I would say crime is really bad in DC and on the Metro.

Yep. I have 2 friends who used to use metro in the past to commute, but when things started to get worse they are driving. One of them attempted to use the Metro with RTO and had been confronted by what you describe on the first day.. entitled teenagers acting “thuggy” trying to start a confrontation.

I don’t even know how to address this, it’s a culture that’s been created over the past few years that changed the behaviors. Exact same happened in NYC with mentally ill and thugs assaulting people and pushing them into subway tracks and down stairs for no reason. Now there is police on every platform.

The Metro needs to have the police presence it had after 9/11 for 5-10 years until things get much safer. I’m talking about cops with bullet proof vests and M-16s, not security guards with reflective vests. We need to make the Metro safe to ride again so more people will ride it.

Yes, unfortunately you need enforcement of all laws constantly. Which requires a well staffed well trained police force… but they have huge shortages. Buses in the area say “fare required”, but what they mean is “law abiding hard working people must pay, and more every year”, while everyone who feels “thuggy”, or is otherwise unwilling or unable can ride for free all day long, getting into paying customers’ faces, because we will do NOTHING. Now this might happen on an isolated line in the middle of the night in other parts of the world, too, but here it is expected, and in broad daylight.

What exactly do you want Metro to do? Bus drivers are not law enforcement nor should they be expected to be. At any given time there are hundreds of buses on the road and it would be completely unfeasible to have a police officer aboard every one. Not to mention you'd be the first to complain if they did and your fare went up a single cent.

The same way we enforce literally any other crime - the fear of being caught and prosecuted needs to be high enough to deter bad behavior. That means arresting a small number of people to use as examples.

MTPD has been conducting high-profile fare enforcement initiatives for like a year now. What a surprise, a paranoid crime junkie is completely misinformed yet still spouting off at the mouth like they've got a clue.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro in DC is bad too. On two separate occasions kids tried to rob a person and after a scuffle finding out the victim is a FBI agent going to work. A government employee, minding his own business, taking the Metro to work gets picked on.
Yeah, I would say crime is really bad in DC and on the Metro.

Yep. I have 2 friends who used to use metro in the past to commute, but when things started to get worse they are driving. One of them attempted to use the Metro with RTO and had been confronted by what you describe on the first day.. entitled teenagers acting “thuggy” trying to start a confrontation.

I don’t even know how to address this, it’s a culture that’s been created over the past few years that changed the behaviors. Exact same happened in NYC with mentally ill and thugs assaulting people and pushing them into subway tracks and down stairs for no reason. Now there is police on every platform.

The Metro needs to have the police presence it had after 9/11 for 5-10 years until things get much safer. I’m talking about cops with bullet proof vests and M-16s, not security guards with reflective vests. We need to make the Metro safe to ride again so more people will ride it.

Yes, unfortunately you need enforcement of all laws constantly. Which requires a well staffed well trained police force… but they have huge shortages. Buses in the area say “fare required”, but what they mean is “law abiding hard working people must pay, and more every year”, while everyone who feels “thuggy”, or is otherwise unwilling or unable can ride for free all day long, getting into paying customers’ faces, because we will do NOTHING. Now this might happen on an isolated line in the middle of the night in other parts of the world, too, but here it is expected, and in broad daylight.

What exactly do you want Metro to do? Bus drivers are not law enforcement nor should they be expected to be. At any given time there are hundreds of buses on the road and it would be completely unfeasible to have a police officer aboard every one. Not to mention you'd be the first to complain if they did and your fare went up a single cent.

The same way we enforce literally any other crime - the fear of being caught and prosecuted needs to be high enough to deter bad behavior. That means arresting a small number of people to use as examples.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro in DC is bad too. On two separate occasions kids tried to rob a person and after a scuffle finding out the victim is a FBI agent going to work. A government employee, minding his own business, taking the Metro to work gets picked on.
Yeah, I would say crime is really bad in DC and on the Metro.

Yep. I have 2 friends who used to use metro in the past to commute, but when things started to get worse they are driving. One of them attempted to use the Metro with RTO and had been confronted by what you describe on the first day.. entitled teenagers acting “thuggy” trying to start a confrontation.

I don’t even know how to address this, it’s a culture that’s been created over the past few years that changed the behaviors. Exact same happened in NYC with mentally ill and thugs assaulting people and pushing them into subway tracks and down stairs for no reason. Now there is police on every platform.

The Metro needs to have the police presence it had after 9/11 for 5-10 years until things get much safer. I’m talking about cops with bullet proof vests and M-16s, not security guards with reflective vests. We need to make the Metro safe to ride again so more people will ride it.

Yes, unfortunately you need enforcement of all laws constantly. Which requires a well staffed well trained police force… but they have huge shortages. Buses in the area say “fare required”, but what they mean is “law abiding hard working people must pay, and more every year”, while everyone who feels “thuggy”, or is otherwise unwilling or unable can ride for free all day long, getting into paying customers’ faces, because we will do NOTHING. Now this might happen on an isolated line in the middle of the night in other parts of the world, too, but here it is expected, and in broad daylight.

What exactly do you want Metro to do? Bus drivers are not law enforcement nor should they be expected to be. At any given time there are hundreds of buses on the road and it would be completely unfeasible to have a police officer aboard every one. Not to mention you'd be the first to complain if they did and your fare went up a single cent.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro in DC is bad too. On two separate occasions kids tried to rob a person and after a scuffle finding out the victim is a FBI agent going to work. A government employee, minding his own business, taking the Metro to work gets picked on.
Yeah, I would say crime is really bad in DC and on the Metro.

Yep. I have 2 friends who used to use metro in the past to commute, but when things started to get worse they are driving. One of them attempted to use the Metro with RTO and had been confronted by what you describe on the first day.. entitled teenagers acting “thuggy” trying to start a confrontation.

I don’t even know how to address this, it’s a culture that’s been created over the past few years that changed the behaviors. Exact same happened in NYC with mentally ill and thugs assaulting people and pushing them into subway tracks and down stairs for no reason. Now there is police on every platform.

The Metro needs to have the police presence it had after 9/11 for 5-10 years until things get much safer. I’m talking about cops with bullet proof vests and M-16s, not security guards with reflective vests. We need to make the Metro safe to ride again so more people will ride it.

Yes, unfortunately you need enforcement of all laws constantly. Which requires a well staffed well trained police force… but they have huge shortages. Buses in the area say “fare required”, but what they mean is “law abiding hard working people must pay, and more every year”, while everyone who feels “thuggy”, or is otherwise unwilling or unable can ride for free all day long, getting into paying customers’ faces, because we will do NOTHING. Now this might happen on an isolated line in the middle of the night in other parts of the world, too, but here it is expected, and in broad daylight.

The "people aren't taking Metro because it's unsafe" narrative is bunk. DC's post-COVID ridership recovery is the strongest of any US city:

https://www.reddit.com/r/transit/s/IkKw6DOnWq

DC had only seven murders over the weekend so I guess they figure that's down from eight or ten over the weekends.

I am going to call complete BS on the violent crimes lowest in 30 years. Reporting of crimes maybe lowest in 30 years. It’s next to impossible to report a crime as the police are spread so thin. I have had guys working on my house robbed by gun point, had neighborhood guy try to attack me with a pipe, had multiple break ins and a real estate title company steal money from me. I was not able to report any of the physical crimes as officers never showed up when called, even though a gun was discharged in the construction worker robbery. It took me 10 months to get a return call from the Detective in the financial crimes division and he told me now that they know the person that stole the money from me did it to multiple people they were going to pursue arresting her, but he was retiring in 3 weeks and had 2 weeks of vacation he had to use up, so if they didn’t locate her in that week nothing would happen and that the other two detectives in the unit are dealing with 350 calls a day and would likely not have time to pursue it. She stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from people doing real estate closings.

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Anonymous wrote:Metro in DC is bad too. On two separate occasions kids tried to rob a person and after a scuffle finding out the victim is a FBI agent going to work. A government employee, minding his own business, taking the Metro to work gets picked on.
Yeah, I would say crime is really bad in DC and on the Metro.

Yep. I have 2 friends who used to use metro in the past to commute, but when things started to get worse they are driving. One of them attempted to use the Metro with RTO and had been confronted by what you describe on the first day.. entitled teenagers acting “thuggy” trying to start a confrontation.

I don’t even know how to address this, it’s a culture that’s been created over the past few years that changed the behaviors. Exact same happened in NYC with mentally ill and thugs assaulting people and pushing them into subway tracks and down stairs for no reason. Now there is police on every platform.

The Metro needs to have the police presence it had after 9/11 for 5-10 years until things get much safer. I’m talking about cops with bullet proof vests and M-16s, not security guards with reflective vests. We need to make the Metro safe to ride again so more people will ride it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure Trump will ruin the progress. DC has been improving dramatically in the past couple of years. But I’m sure the Republicans will screw everything up. The lack leadership abilities unless you’re a brainwashed MAGA.

2023 was a bloodbath. There was some minor improvement in 2024 but it’s coming from such a terrible place things remain significantly worse than even 2019. There is no world where DC has been improving dramatically.

It's only February, but so far murders are up 100 percent over last year in DC. If MAGA prosecutors want to take a crack at rounding up and prosecuting violent men in DC, have at it. I can ignore the rest of the MAGA platform if they rid DC of the people that have been terrorizing DC for years. People are forgetting how safe DC used to be before Covid/BLM/restorative justice. I don't understand why Democrats in the DMV are so accepting of the massive spike in violence that has occurred in recent years. DC was so much safer in the Obama years. I don't see why we can't go back to that.

This x 1 million!!!!

DC and suburban MD have been in a backslide since after Obama left office because a lot of people in power in these areas have to be “anti-Trump” even if it means supporting policies that damage the quality of life for the majority of their citizens. They tacked way too far left on crime, homeless issues, and illegal immigration because they wanted to prove they weren’t Trump and their regions suffered for it. Before then Obama was a sensible center right Democrat on these issues so the Dems in the area didn’t have anyone to react against and followed his lead.