In the past 13 years, I've had a package stolen, a brick through my window (this was the worst--thought it was a gunshot; turned out to be kids who hit several of my neighbors too over the course of a few minutes), and identity theft where someone made an unemployment claim with my name. Not sure whoever did that last one lived in DC though.

There have been gunshots within a few blocks of my house (on routes I travel frequently to commute or run errands) several times a year, and not just in the middle of the night. That scares me the most, not because I think I'd be a target but because the shooters often don't hit their targets.

born and raised in DC. Grew up in an urban neighborhood. Our house was broken into once in about 1984. In about 1992 my car got broken into - Adams Morgan - my girlfriend's backpack was stolen. That's pretty much everything that happened to me over the last 50 years.

I still live in DC. My house has no alarm and windows can't be locked. i have never had a serious problem. I'm sure I just jinxed myself.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

I did not use the word “almost all of the kids” and I did not use the term “most kids.” I recounted experience with someone who high jacked my car in Arlington and drove it into DC and the crime in our NW DC neighborhood along with my DH having an attempted high Jack. There are a large number of kids who live in DC and commit crime. Look at DC crime reports and crime reports from surrounding jurisdictions. Not sure if they are all kids but many crimes are committed by DC residents.

You wrote "after that, I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC They can rot for all I care"
Sort of implies that you believe all or most are criminals does it not?

Have only had minor property crimes like broken windows, stolen porch furniture, and plants and a few muggings over the last 21 years but we have finally realized we are weary of helping people with no progress. We have been very active with one church related charities and have worked to geo people into housing, repair cars or get cars so people could work, pay for education help, school supplies, glasses, computers, WiFi, , clothing, furniture and food assistance. We made it through the pandemic and through the beginning of school and then stopped.
We saw the same people repeatedly and gave them the same help with no progress. No matter what we did, we had no one actually do better. In fact the kids we saw at five or six years old did not finish scholarship, have no jobs, cannot get into the military because they are obese, have several children, and are repeating the same mistakes of their parents.

We looked extensively for groups who have been able to actually help people and found a number throughout the country. We have contributed to them and have physically worked with three others somewhat nearby.

Our children will be finished high school by 2024 and we are leaving the area since we can work remotely.

I don’t think that it is that people are criminals but that so many of them are unable to do anything brute ust with the support of government and charities.

Anonymous wrote:20 years in the district and (knock on wood) haven’t experienced any personal or property crime except being flashed on the metro 15 years ago.

Signed, a white woman who isn’t scared of Black propel, but thanks PP for perpetuating the lazy, racist, misogynist trope.

Funny you are the first person to bring race into it. I don't think you are as woke as you think.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

Not the PP but someone is committing these crimes, that statistically are youth driven. Are you asserting it's "just a few " kids? Like 5 or 10?

+1. "Most kids in DC" are not committing crimes. But an alarming, seriously alarming, number of crimes committed are committed by kids. I guess I'd say they're not criminals since they're not charged but yeah, they're committing crimes, often violent, with few repercussions.

I'm a longtime District resident and straight Dem voter before you come after me.

I am also alarmed at how many violent crimes are being committed by minors in DC, but the PP said they now refuse to donate to charities that help kids in DC, including Children’s Hospital, because “they can all rot in hell.”

Do y’all not get that there’s a difference between “a lot of crimes in DC are committed by kids” and “all kids in DC are criminals”? Use your brains.

P.s PP here - I should add that my immediate next door neighbor was mugged and beaten and there were two violent assaults outside my neighborhood store. This is over 15 years in a Capitol Hill neighborhood which is pretty safe and where I actually generally feel pretty safe.

During and after the pandemic been encountering more instances of people acting out in the street though. Walked by at least one drug overdose death

My car has been broken into many times, the worst being when they apparently tried to hot wire it or something by entirely stripping the steering column. Broken car windows several times. Bike stolen.

However I don’t even really count this kind of property crime. To me being a crime victim is face to face violent crime. This is rare but it only needs to happen to you once to be a life changing disaster. People rightly react strongly to hearing about things that indicate an elevated chance of this kind of victimization, even if the absolute probability is low

20 years here as an adult. No crimes I can think of.

Closest things I can come up with are a parking ticket I got on a Thursday in a "no parking on wednesdays for street sweeping" 20 years ago and the idiocies of self-important people in Cleveland Park

I'm a DC native who has lived here for my entire life. I've lived in Columbia Heights, Glover Park, Palisades, Mt. Pleasant, Edgewood, and currently live EOTR by the Benning Rd metro. In all my 37 years here I've been the victim of about zero crimes and a handful of "crimes."

The closest to an actual crime was the theft of the air conditioning unit the night before I closed on a house. While it was an actual crime it was not technically perpetrated against me since I didn't own the house yet.

The other "crimes" were someone going through my car but not actually breaking in or stealing anything, and a kid trying to take my cell phone while I was walking home from the Metro but he was so young and small he couldn't actually grab it and just sort of hung off my arm while I was talking on the phone.

That's it though, and despite the people who are victims of crime being the more vocal group, I'd imagine my experience is closer to the majority.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

I did not use the word “almost all of the kids” and I did not use the term “most kids.” I recounted experience with someone who high jacked my car in Arlington and drove it into DC and the crime in our NW DC neighborhood along with my DH having an attempted high Jack. There are a large number of kids who live in DC and commit crime. Look at DC crime reports and crime reports from surrounding jurisdictions. Not sure if they are all kids but many crimes are committed by DC residents.

You wrote "after that, I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC They can rot for all I care"
Sort of implies that you believe all or most are criminals does it not?

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

I did not use the word “almost all of the kids” and I did not use the term “most kids.” I recounted experience with someone who high jacked my car in Arlington and drove it into DC and the crime in our NW DC neighborhood along with my DH having an attempted high Jack. There are a large number of kids who live in DC and commit crime. Look at DC crime reports and crime reports from surrounding jurisdictions. Not sure if they are all kids but many crimes are committed by DC residents.

Just a handful of really minor stuff in the last 10 years. Once, while walking down the street, a black teenage boy walking toward me patted my crotch (I'm a guy). Shrug. Maybe that was groping. Just weird.

Another time, I was on a crowded bus full of students, and when the bus arrived at their stop, one boy shoved another boy roughly pushing him toward the exit, knocking the kid into an elderly lady. I said "no need for shoving." He and two other kids got in my face mean-mugging me. I held my ground and stared them down and they backed down and got off the bus.

And once I accidentally left my SUV unlocked. Someone rifled through it, didn't take any of the actually valuable items in it, but for some reason took a bottle of oil out of the back of the car and spilled part of it on the ground. Chalking that one up to some mentally ill homeless person.

That's pretty much it.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

Not the PP but someone is committing these crimes, that statistically are youth driven. Are you asserting it's "just a few " kids? Like 5 or 10?

+1. "Most kids in DC" are not committing crimes. But an alarming, seriously alarming, number of crimes committed are committed by kids. I guess I'd say they're not criminals since they're not charged but yeah, they're committing crimes, often violent, with few repercussions.

I'm a longtime District resident and straight Dem voter before you come after me.

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

Are you seriously trying to argue that most kids that live in DC are criminals?

Not the PP but someone is committing these crimes, that statistically are youth driven. Are you asserting it's "just a few " kids? Like 5 or 10?

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Anonymous wrote:Not in DC but my car was high jacked in Crystal City and driven into DC where it crashed into three cars and knocked one kid off the scooter It was basically totaled when I found it near Lincoln Park. The Arlington said they could not even write a report about it for insurance. The DC police never responded to call to look at the car. I had the car towed to the deal in Tyson's Corner who said it was totaled and the engine was blown because the kids drove it with the break on. Cost to replace the car was $52,000. Insurance paid for $30,000 -- the blue book value.

After that I stopped contributing to any charity that helped kids in DC, including a large annual contribution to Children's Hospital. They can rot for all I care.

Almost all of the kids in DC did not steal your car.

Nah, just lots of other people's cars. Our street in an alleged good neighborhood in NW had so much crime recently that we have been told by the police not to bother reporting it. We'll move as soon as last kid finishes private school. We work in Arlington so DC won't be necessary. My DH had an attempted carjack in DC but he slammed the door on the kid's hand and that stopped him from driving so that my DH could open the door and pull him out.

That is bullshit. Keep reporting it; you need a record to request additional patrols.