We are trying to hold on, but if there isn’t a crackdown on crime, we will leave. 17 years here.

Anonymous wrote:Yes and we are tying to leave asap it's just not worth it anymore to stay here. Are any of you leaving as well?

No, definitely not leaving. Thanks for asking. Feel free to move away if you'd like. I understand if people think they can't tolerate the current conditions in the District, but I really wish they'd stop also trying to persuade me that I also can't tolerate the current conditions or that I'm somehow doing something wrong if I stay here.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems way better than when I got year years ago. A little worse after the pandemic but not terrible. I suspect crime will continue the overall trend down.

Trend downward? Uuuuh.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Yes, the trend was decreasing crime rates before the pandemic. Look at the #s at the bottom. It was even worse in the 80s/90s.

Jesus Christ. This never ending comparison to the 80s and 90s is so dumb. That was 30-40 years ago. All that matters most to the most people is the delta over more recent time points. It has gotten far worse over the last 5-10 years. Yeah, let me cherry pick and only focus on the worst time points in the history of the area to use as a selective baseline for comparison so that comparisons to then will show it is never bad. Do a multiple time point comparison to 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, and now. You can see everything is slipping again.

The thread specifically asks this question of long term residents -- so the 80s and 90s are exactly what we're talking about in this particular thread. Yes, crime is getting out of control and the city needs to step up; but also yes, we are nowhere near what it was like when we moved here during the Barry years, and we don't want to to get that way again.

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Anonymous wrote:Attempted armed carjacking in Chevy Chase DC earlier this morning, @ 7:30. Be alert, especially when with kids. It was on Connecticut, pretty bold with traffic, people walking dogs, heading to Starbucks, etc.

We wouldn’t have carjackings if everyone rode bicycles on CT Ave.

Are you old enough to remember the bike stabber on Capitol Hill mid-90s?

Anonymous wrote:Yes and we are tying to leave asap it's just not worth it anymore to stay here. Are any of you leaving as well?

Sure you are. Crime has always happened in DC. It just hit Ward 3 and y'all are losing your sh*t.

Yes and we are tying to leave asap it's just not worth it anymore to stay here. Are any of you leaving as well?

^^ I should also add that there has been a bunch of crime around my office in NE DC. Someone was stabbed on a weekday morning in front of my building, and a violent sexual assault took place two blocks away that same week. This is on top of the armed robbery at the Subway (as in the restaurant, not the Metro) in the middle of a weekday, the fact that local businesses refuse to handle cash, the fights in front of the NY Avenue Metro station, etc., etc.

Moved to DC in 1994, lived in NW DC or close in MoCo for years, moved to Fairfax City in 2010, then moved farther out in 2021.

In our Fairfax City neighborhood in the early 2010s, there was so little crime that police responded and took a police report when I found a pot pipe near our house (yes, I am and always have been a Karen). The biggest concern was noise complaints. Crime started increasing in 2020 with car break-ins, attempted home break-ins, and tons of catalytic converter thefts. We sold our house in 2021 after someone came into our fully fenced yard at night and looked around. I'm still in the Facebook group for our old neighborhood, and residents regularly post videos of groups of people coming into the neighborhood at 1-2 a.m. to check car doors and steal catalytic converters. There also have also been a number of recent stabbings and murders near Fairfax Circle and Fairfax High School. So that's all new.

I also see a significant decline in the infrastructure. Drive on any major road in Fairfax County (Braddock, Fairfax County Parkway) and you will see weeds growing in the median through the concrete, plus trash that no one ever seems to clean up. It looks like a county in decline.

Anonymous wrote:Someone tried to rob my kid in Georgetown in broad daylight on Monday. It’s time for a clampdown.

As if! As if that’s going to happen.

Think about it. This town is populated with either wealthy or upper middle class intelligent idealistic, but naive folks who embrace urbanism and all its warts. They think a punitive approach to crime is “unfair.” Cracking down puts too many in jail and so they want to work on the “root causes of poverty” rather than enforcement. It’s a sort of patronizing, infantilizing way to view crime. Basically side with the perpetrators over the victims and promulgate ineffective restorative Justice and keep voting in weaklings who justify the status quo by touting selective, “evidence based” policies that make us less safe. Or you have Ward 7 and 8 super poor people who basically don’t like police and enforcement.

Meanwhile Grocery stores leave because of shrinkage, the car jackings continue to skyrocket because obviously criminals know they can get away with anything. and the tax base , you know, people willing to put up with it, slowly get scared and leave.

Anonymous wrote:Attempted armed carjacking in Chevy Chase DC earlier this morning, @ 7:30. Be alert, especially when with kids. It was on Connecticut, pretty bold with traffic, people walking dogs, heading to Starbucks, etc.

We wouldn’t have carjackings if everyone rode bicycles on CT Ave.

Anonymous wrote:Someone tried to rob my kid in Georgetown in broad daylight on Monday. It’s time for a clampdown.

What happened?! And I hope they are ok.

Someone tried to rob my kid in Georgetown in broad daylight on Monday. It’s time for a clampdown.

194th Homicide on the year today.

"I have noticed the decline" people are not bothered by the additional deaths.

Attempted armed carjacking in Chevy Chase DC earlier this morning, @ 7:30. Be alert, especially when with kids. It was on Connecticut, pretty bold with traffic, people walking dogs, heading to Starbucks, etc.

Yep. Liberalism and their enabling the less ambitious