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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is surprised by this?

The Council and Mayor are surprised. They think property crime passed to insurance is Monopoly Money. Literally, have they tallied the overall cost to DC residents from this rise and expressed ANY concern?

Just more profit gouging by large corporations. Has anyone looked into the executive's salaries and bonus packages?

https://www.wsj.com/finance/insurance-companies-profits-stock-ebae7fd1

And what's your point? That's how insurance works. Do you think that they care that DC is handing them a reason to do this??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is surprised by this?

The Council and Mayor are surprised. They think property crime passed to insurance is Monopoly Money. Literally, have they tallied the overall cost to DC residents from this rise and expressed ANY concern?

Just more profit gouging by large corporations. Has anyone looked into the executive's salaries and bonus packages?

https://www.wsj.com/finance/insurance-companies-profits-stock-ebae7fd1

Anonymous wrote:Who is surprised by this?

The Council and Mayor are surprised. They think property crime passed to insurance is Monopoly Money. Literally, have they tallied the overall cost to DC residents from this rise and expressed ANY concern?

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Only a chump would stay, pay all the bills and risk own life and that of family at this point. Have been here since 1990 and we planned to be lifers. The declining QOL is going to plummet as revenue is decimated by CRE implosion.

Fewer and fewer will financially support those more and more in need of significant services. More will be drawn to DC by programs like the over market rate vouchers. It's not going to be pretty.

Phil "no crime crisis" Mendo and Matt "no paper" Graves don't care about you or your family, even if you live or die.

Great, list your house on the way outta here to the boonies so millennial or gen z household can actually buy a home to raise their family in. Bye. 👋

Oh do quiet down.
They won’t leave, and you will never get your grubby hands on their house. I’m realizing there’s a there there. We’ll just get rid of Chuck and Co

It's actually looking possible...https://www.recallcharlesallen.com/

Who is surprised by this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only a chump would stay, pay all the bills and risk own life and that of family at this point. Have been here since 1990 and we planned to be lifers. The declining QOL is going to plummet as revenue is decimated by CRE implosion.

Fewer and fewer will financially support those more and more in need of significant services. More will be drawn to DC by programs like the over market rate vouchers. It's not going to be pretty.

Phil "no crime crisis" Mendo and Matt "no paper" Graves don't care about you or your family, even if you live or die.

Great, list your house on the way outta here to the boonies so millennial or gen z household can actually buy a home to raise their family in. Bye. 👋

Oh do quiet down.
They won’t leave, and you will never get your grubby hands on their house. I’m realizing there’s a there there. We’ll just get rid of Chuck and Co

Anonymous wrote:Only a chump would stay, pay all the bills and risk own life and that of family at this point. Have been here since 1990 and we planned to be lifers. The declining QOL is going to plummet as revenue is decimated by CRE implosion.

Fewer and fewer will financially support those more and more in need of significant services. More will be drawn to DC by programs like the over market rate vouchers. It's not going to be pretty.

Phil "no crime crisis" Mendo and Matt "no paper" Graves don't care about you or your family, even if you live or die.

Great, list your house on the way outta here to the boonies so millennial or gen z household can actually buy a home to raise their family in. Bye. 👋

Only a chump would stay, pay all the bills and risk own life and that of family at this point. Have been here since 1990 and we planned to be lifers. The declining QOL is going to plummet as revenue is decimated by CRE implosion.

Fewer and fewer will financially support those more and more in need of significant services. More will be drawn to DC by programs like the over market rate vouchers. It's not going to be pretty.

Phil "no crime crisis" Mendo and Matt "no paper" Graves don't care about you or your family, even if you live or die.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Schools are underresourced? Don't we have the highest per pupil spending and the second highest teacher pay package in the country?

What does that have to do with decriminalizing property damage? Nobody wants to live somewhere where their private property is considered part of a free public rage room.

No, they don't. I'll add where their bodies and safety and those of loved ones are considered part of a free public rage room either.

And combining this type of widespread damage, with nothing done about it, with people getting shot on K St. at rush hour picking up a spouse from work, does not make DC an appealing place to live, work or visit. Someone was mugged right near Old Ebbitt/WH on Sunday afternoon, broad daylight, LOTS of people around. None of that matters anymore, even LE in sight is no guarantee of safety. That is why a hired guard is of so much less value than in 90s, then "eyes on the street" had a significant value. Crime in DC is a national and international story, likely to impact tourism, too. CRE tax revenue is in free fall, DC really can't afford to lose middle class residents and tourists. The guy from Argentina punched in the face on metro at Columbia Heights had broken facial bones. His X post has over 5 M views. And still the Council weakens laws at the behest of activists it refuses to disclose, smh.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Yep.. yep.. and then folks get out of those schools and go to get a job and can only find part-time work near minimum wage because franchise companies don't want to bring on full time employees since the 08 crash and great recession because of health care requirements. So then they have to end up getting a *couple* jobs and working 60+ hour weeks just to barely make rent, while getting shit talked by people ordering their mocha mint latte and its taking too long.

Here's a thought... invest in schools. Invest in real community programs. Invest in food security. Invest in accessible, universal child and health care for young families.

I really wish we'd just try to put a good foot forward to make our society's default position altruistic instead of dog-eat-dog competitive for a change.

And invest in teaching .... VALUES. Not your lived truth or mine. Truth is not relative and civilized values are what makes society work. Our schools and institutions have a responsibility to inculcate values among DC's 'juveniles.'

Okay.. but if you do that, then it's important that those values are enforced. And they aren't. Look at ex-president trump. Hell, look at the insurrectionists from Jan 6th. Look at most executives in high finance or Healthcare. They violate laws all the time and penalties are slow to materialize and often dropped.

But get nabbed selling a quarter on the street corner? Throw the book at you!

Our society is pretty messed up. Messed up societies have consequences.

These kinds of posts and thought patterns are why things never get better for kids in DC, between the minimizing of criminal behavior and the politicization of simple issues like kids attending school and learning pro-social behaviors, the activists weaponize the kids' well being for own financial benefit. Poverty pimps don't want kids rising to stable middle class lives.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Schools are underresourced? Don't we have the highest per pupil spending and the second highest teacher pay package in the country?

What does that have to do with decriminalizing property damage? Nobody wants to live somewhere where their private property is considered part of a free public rage room.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Yep.. yep.. and then folks get out of those schools and go to get a job and can only find part-time work near minimum wage because franchise companies don't want to bring on full time employees since the 08 crash and great recession because of health care requirements. So then they have to end up getting a *couple* jobs and working 60+ hour weeks just to barely make rent, while getting shit talked by people ordering their mocha mint latte and its taking too long.

Here's a thought... invest in schools. Invest in real community programs. Invest in food security. Invest in accessible, universal child and health care for young families.

I really wish we'd just try to put a good foot forward to make our society's default position altruistic instead of dog-eat-dog competitive for a change.

And invest in teaching .... VALUES. Not your lived truth or mine. Truth is not relative and civilized values are what makes society work. Our schools and institutions have a responsibility to inculcate values among DC's 'juveniles.'

Okay.. but if you do that, then it's important that those values are enforced. And they aren't. Look at ex-president trump. Hell, look at the insurrectionists from Jan 6th. Look at most executives in high finance or Healthcare. They violate laws all the time and penalties are slow to materialize and often dropped.

But get nabbed selling a quarter on the street corner? Throw the book at you!

Our society is pretty messed up. Messed up societies have consequences.

You’re an idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:So happy to see the announced federal surge. I returned my DNC survey and crossed out all their “top issues” and wrote “crime in DC and its close-in burbs.” Hopefully they will focus on the border towns too.

Riiiight. Sure you did, MAGA.

Tell you what, this is the kind of thing that makes people quietly vote for other candidates.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Yep.. yep.. and then folks get out of those schools and go to get a job and can only find part-time work near minimum wage because franchise companies don't want to bring on full time employees since the 08 crash and great recession because of health care requirements. So then they have to end up getting a *couple* jobs and working 60+ hour weeks just to barely make rent, while getting shit talked by people ordering their mocha mint latte and its taking too long.

Here's a thought... invest in schools. Invest in real community programs. Invest in food security. Invest in accessible, universal child and health care for young families.

I really wish we'd just try to put a good foot forward to make our society's default position altruistic instead of dog-eat-dog competitive for a change.

And invest in teaching .... VALUES. Not your lived truth or mine. Truth is not relative and civilized values are what makes society work. Our schools and institutions have a responsibility to inculcate values among DC's 'juveniles.'

Okay.. but if you do that, then it's important that those values are enforced. And they aren't. Look at ex-president trump. Hell, look at the insurrectionists from Jan 6th. Look at most executives in high finance or Healthcare. They violate laws all the time and penalties are slow to materialize and often dropped.

But get nabbed selling a quarter on the street corner? Throw the book at you!

Our society is pretty messed up. Messed up societies have consequences.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

Schools are under-resourced and understaffed so there really is not enough money and staffing to help children and families heal from generational trauma. As Frederick Douglas once said, "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Schools and other community-based programs are for the benefit of society, if you cut those programs or under-fund them, you can expect crime to raise. The result we are seeing is from the COVID closures which mentally and socially impacted the most vulnerable in society.

Yep.. yep.. and then folks get out of those schools and go to get a job and can only find part-time work near minimum wage because franchise companies don't want to bring on full time employees since the 08 crash and great recession because of health care requirements. So then they have to end up getting a *couple* jobs and working 60+ hour weeks just to barely make rent, while getting shit talked by people ordering their mocha mint latte and its taking too long.

Here's a thought... invest in schools. Invest in real community programs. Invest in food security. Invest in accessible, universal child and health care for young families.

I really wish we'd just try to put a good foot forward to make our society's default position altruistic instead of dog-eat-dog competitive for a change.

Have you seen the truancy rates in DC? Seen the per pupil funding in DC? Seen how much DC spends on central office? We are spending money in schools- these kids do not show up to school. There are no consequences for not showing up to school. They are passed along and they can’t read or write. Why not? Because they do NOT go to school.