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Anonymous wrote:You can't even walk in a park downtown to sit down and eat your lunch without seeing used condoms. syringes, trash and diapers. Beggars and crazy people constantly approaching you.

And they wonder why we rather work at home.

Trump needs to oust the mayor and council members.

This is all complete bu||shit. Oh my gosh, a homeless person asked you for money. How did you ever survive?

You're a racist, cowardly POS. Stay home if you're scared.

Condoms and syringes is a lie. But garbage, homeless and weed smell is a big issue in every park downtown. For almost everyone it’s unpleasant. For an extremely small minority it’s part of the vibrant urban fabric.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump wants DC to be full of crime - he needs an enemy. Those of you thinking he's going to come in and knock heads and impose law and order? I have a bridge to sell you.

That's what you assume. He is almost 80, making DC great again could be his legacy. DC should look like capital of a superpower.

This. Currently the first thing people see after they cross the bridges and emerge from the tunnels even into the premium neighborhoods around Georgetown and near our National Mall are tent compounds.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

If you've lived here since the '90's then you would know that the graffiti is neither new nor more prevalent.

The micro mobility attainable housing tent compounds on the other hand are indeed a new development.

Yes, they used to just use tarps and cardboard. But unhoused populations were always there.

Anonymous wrote:You can't even walk in a park downtown to sit down and eat your lunch without seeing used condoms. syringes, trash and diapers. Beggars and crazy people constantly approaching you.

And they wonder why we rather work at home.

Trump needs to oust the mayor and council members.

This is all complete bu||shit. Oh my gosh, a homeless person asked you for money. How did you ever survive?

You're a racist, cowardly POS. Stay home if you're scared.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants DC to be full of crime - he needs an enemy. Those of you thinking he's going to come in and knock heads and impose law and order? I have a bridge to sell you.

That's what you assume. He is almost 80, making DC great again could be his legacy. DC should look like capital of a superpower.

This. Currently the first thing people see after they cross the bridges and emerge from the tunnels even into the premium neighborhoods around Georgetown and near our National Mall are tent compounds.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

You are nuts. DC was so much worse in the 1990s. Crime and murder rate was more than 2x last year's murder rate. Very few people of means ventured East of 16th street.

The problem is you were probably a somewhat young person in the 1990s and now you are old as shit. Guess what, the older you get the more fearful you get. Like my parents that lived in NYC in the 1960s and early 1970s, but thought I was crazy for living there in the late 1990s...even though NYC was much safer than it's nadir of the 1970s.

The murder rate was worse in the early 90s but was far better in the years around 2012, when DC had 3x less murders than in 2023.

You know what wasn’t happening in 2012? Shoplifting, fare jumping, and public weed smoking were prosecuted. You’d occasionally see people smoking weed, but it was rare, unlike today. Of course there was shoplifting, but not to the levels that stores would ban backpacks or force you to show a receipt to a guard when you left, which is happening now in a lot of DC grocery stores. And there was occasional fare jumping, but it wasn’t such an epidemic that they built 8 foot tall gates at the Metro turnstiles.

Even in the 90s, you wouldn’t see kids smoking weed in broad daylight outside of the Metro or watch scores of people jump the turnstiles. Murders were higher, but it didn’t feel so lawless in nicer areas of the city like it does now.

You can't even walk in a park downtown to sit down and eat your lunch without seeing used condoms. syringes, trash and diapers. Beggars and crazy people constantly approaching you.

And they wonder why we rather work at home.

Trump needs to oust the mayor and council members.

You can even walk in a park downtown to sit down and eat your lunch without seeing used condoms. syringes, trash and diapers. Beggars and crazy people constantly approaching you.

And they wonder why we rather work at home.

Trump needs to oust the mayor and council members.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants DC to be full of crime - he needs an enemy. Those of you thinking he's going to come in and knock heads and impose law and order? I have a bridge to sell you.

That's what you assume. He is almost 80, making DC great again could be his legacy. DC should look like capital of a superpower.

This. Currently the first thing people see after they cross the bridges and emerge from the tunnels even into the premium neighborhoods around Georgetown and near our National Mall are tent compounds.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

You are nuts. DC was so much worse in the 1990s. Crime and murder rate was more than 2x last year's murder rate. Very few people of means ventured East of 16th street.

The problem is you were probably a somewhat young person in the 1990s and now you are old as shit. Guess what, the older you get the more fearful you get. Like my parents that lived in NYC in the 1960s and early 1970s, but thought I was crazy for living there in the late 1990s...even though NYC was much safer than it's nadir of the 1970s.

Wait, a convicted felon willing to make a city a safer place? Safe for him to hide?
Only in movies.

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Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

It's not just the city - drive into NoVA and things look decreipt. Weeds growing through concrete on major roads, including 66, 495, 28, and the Fairfax County Parkway. Bags of garbage strewn on the side of the road that take weeks to clean up, if they are at all. Potholes, uneven pavement. Growing crime (mostly catalytic converter thefts and break ins) and homelessness in neighborhoods that used to be crime free. We look like a nation in decline.

Not to mention the for-profit "beggars" at every intersection who are dropped off and picked updaily by their employers, or who drive themselves in the new cars to their preferred sites, while the County does nothing to discourage the practice.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

It's not just the city - drive into NoVA and things look decreipt. Weeds growing through concrete on major roads, including 66, 495, 28, and the Fairfax County Parkway. Bags of garbage strewn on the side of the road that take weeks to clean up, if they are at all. Potholes, uneven pavement. Growing crime (mostly catalytic converter thefts and break ins) and homelessness in neighborhoods that used to be crime free. We look like a nation in decline.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants DC to be full of crime - he needs an enemy. Those of you thinking he's going to come in and knock heads and impose law and order? I have a bridge to sell you.

That's what you assume. He is almost 80, making DC great again could be his legacy. DC should look like capital of a superpower.

This. Currently the first thing people see after they cross the bridges and emerge from the tunnels even into the premium neighborhoods around Georgetown and near our National Mall are tent compounds.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

If you've lived here since the '90's then you would know that the graffiti is neither new nor more prevalent.

The micro mobility attainable housing tent compounds on the other hand are indeed a new development.

Steal

Nothing is going to improve Trump will steak dc taxpayers monies

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump wants DC to be full of crime - he needs an enemy. Those of you thinking he's going to come in and knock heads and impose law and order? I have a bridge to sell you.

That's what you assume. He is almost 80, making DC great again could be his legacy. DC should look like capital of a superpower.

This. Currently the first thing people see after they cross the bridges and emerge from the tunnels even into the premium neighborhoods around Georgetown and near our National Mall are tent compounds.

Cleaning up the city would be a godsend. The amount of graffiti, trash, and tent compounds as one enters from 50/66 is shocking. As someone who's lived here since the 1990s, I can confidently say it never used to be this way. DC is a national embarrassment, and it doesn't take a genius to understand the root cause which shall not be named here because of the knee-jerk liberal reaction to telling the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump should bring back the control board. And Tony Williams. Our little experiment with home rule has turned into a national embarrassment.

No because we’re doing fine fiscally although there will be some pain due to loss of funding & revenues in the future. But nothing like the financial chaos that preceded the control board.

If the issue is criminal justice, then a package of legislative reforms (including speeding up confirmation of judges) would be welcome but the Trumpers have no actual interest in thinking through complex issues and making change.

DC has a state capacity problem. The laws and policies are just one part of the problem. The people and systems that implement those laws and policies are the other part. DC frankly is not capable of addressing either problem on their own and require external intervention to move past the status quo.

Right? We need a heavy handed Trump admin to just give the city an enema on crime. I’m not apologetic about wanting that.