Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:54     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has always been sketchy AF.


M Street & Wisconsin and I guess down by the water has always been a little eerie at times but off the thoroughfares it's lovely.

It’s actually sketchy in a lot of areas. I was the victim of a crime on a weekday afternoon in one of the wealthiest pockets of Georgetown. The police were quick to respond bc they were already nearby for a robbery and another crime. This was on a weekday afternoon!
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:52     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has always been sketchy AF.

+1
It peaked with the Kennedys and then held on through the 80s. There has always been a disproportionate amount of crime in Georgetown vs other well off NW neighborhoods. I never understood the allure
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:44     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the situation the rest of us have been in for a year+, Georgetown. Maybe now the mayor and city council will actually do something.


Does Bowser live in Georgetown? What make you think she would care?
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:33     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.


Lie.


+1 That number includes Fairfax, MoCo, and PG counties. DC was at just under 200 by itself, which is high enough without adding in the burbs.


I mean, fairfax county is like 50% higher population than dc and had 21 total homicides in 2021. Let's not pretend it's a significant contributor to the crime in the area lol


I'm giving the factual basis for the 416 number a PP misattributed to DC. No one is besmirching your murder burb.


Too much fail
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:18     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.


Lie.


+1 That number includes Fairfax, MoCo, and PG counties. DC was at just under 200 by itself, which is high enough without adding in the burbs.


I mean, fairfax county is like 50% higher population than dc and had 21 total homicides in 2021. Let's not pretend it's a significant contributor to the crime in the area lol


I'm giving the factual basis for the 416 number a PP misattributed to DC. No one is besmirching your murder burb.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:17     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.


Lie.


+1 That number includes Fairfax, MoCo, and PG counties. DC was at just under 200 by itself, which is high enough without adding in the burbs.


I mean, fairfax county is like 50% higher population than dc and had 21 total homicides in 2021. Let's not pretend it's a significant contributor to the crime in the area lol
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:16     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Welcome to the situation the rest of us have been in for a year+, Georgetown. Maybe now the mayor and city council will actually do something.


The city council swears they will buy every violent offender free lattes for a year. Two years for repeat offenders! What do you think they will do? They make excuses for criminals instead of getting them off the street. That's our problem.

Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:15     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.


Lie.


+1 That number includes Fairfax, MoCo, and PG counties. DC was at just under 200 by itself, which is high enough without adding in the burbs.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:13     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Oh good, now the shootings are happening in Georgetown. Maybe our city leaders will start to actually give a f*ck. 13 year olds shooting at each other in broad daylight last week at a busy intersection in NE doesn’t get anyone to care, but oooooh not Georgetown!!!!


Actually I’ve always cared about those kids and have worked to reduce gun violence but if you don’t see that someone being shot at prime time in what has traditionally been a ‘safer’ part of town as a concerning shift, then I don’t know what to tell you.


Are you a city leader?? I sure hope so. Because this tells me all I need to know - that you live in a sheltered, privileged bubble and don’t actually care about this city or the people in it outside of your precious “safe” (aka white) neighborhoods. But keep telling yourself you’re working to reduce gun violence by getting worked up over shootings in *gasp* Georgetown.

This crap is so played out and simplistic and disingenuous. It’s also exactly why crime will only increase across the coty and eventually will have severe consequences for the economic health of DC.


Is the gun violence getting a little too close to your upper northwest neighborhood?

The only problem I see with this is the city will commit even more police resources to Georgetown and upper NW. If they took a few of the cops who sit on MacArthur Blvd all damn day hoping to catch some mom in her expensive SUV going 35 mph and move them to the neighborhoods that desperately need them, gun violence would go down. But instead this city is beholden to keeping wealthy white neighborhoods safe, while letting black youth grow up in war zones. I’m sure they find that crap played out and simplistic, too.


I believe the criticism is that those neighborhoods are over-policed.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:11     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
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Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.


Lie.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:02     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:JFC!! This city is going to hell.


Way too much money for that to happen. Detroit and Baltimore are "hell". The District is beyond filthy rich.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:01     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:JFC!! This city is going to hell.


It’s all those people coming in from Virginia.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:01     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has always been sketchy AF.


M Street & Wisconsin and I guess down by the water has always been a little eerie at times but off the thoroughfares it's lovely.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 22:00     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Georgetown has always been sketchy AF.


Thank you...maybe not sketchy but if you are from around here you know that it's not devoid of crime. Not sure I have ever heard of a murder in broad daylight though.
Anonymous
Post 01/31/2022 21:59     Subject: Shooting in Georgetown!!!
Anonymous wrote:Ugh, my DD is going to Georgetown University and this makes me so nervous


416 people were murdered in DC in 2021.