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The head in sand brigade that wants to make excuses for this murder say Silver Spring is no more dangerous than anywhere else and particularly DTSS near the transit station. They say that if you are near transit after dark in the DMV, you should expect violence. I am not the one who is arguing this. I am just asking questions about this because if it is true, then we should not want transit in our communities if we also have to accept the risk of getting murdered.

Who exactly is this "we" who should not want transit in "our" communities, and which transit are you saying "we" should not want? And why aren't you saying that "we" should not want parking garages, which is where the murder actually occurred?

Metro stations, train stations, bus stations and exits to major road have a high crime rate every where in the US.

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

You’d have a strong case if all of these incidents happened in the same month, like the three murders in DTSS this December, instead of decades apart.

Which HS did those murderers go to?

Blair? Wheaton? Einstein?

Back to the original question, what years did these deaths happen?

So they did not go to SS high schools. Thanks for playing.

Murderers who attend W schools 4, murderers who go to SS schools 0.

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The head in sand brigade that wants to make excuses for this murder say Silver Spring is no more dangerous than anywhere else and particularly DTSS near the transit station. They say that if you are near transit after dark in the DMV, you should expect violence. I am not the one who is arguing this. I am just asking questions about this because if it is true, then we should not want transit in our communities if we also have to accept the risk of getting murdered.

Who exactly is this "we" who should not want transit in "our" communities, and which transit are you saying "we" should not want? And why aren't you saying that "we" should not want parking garages, which is where the murder actually occurred?

I’m honestly confused at this point. Is violence a fact if life and urbanization that society should accept happens everywhere and particularly in urbanized areas?

Is there a reason why there’s more violent crime and murders in DTSS or it is just a freak statistical artifact?

Crime is always higher in urban areas because there are more people. Crime rate is higher in rural states but that is per capital no straight numbers.

Poverty and the lack of resources like Appalachia have high crime rates.

This would make total sense except for the fact that the crime “rate” in Montgomery County as a whole is 2.5X Frederick County and most of the crime in Montgomery County is occurring is just a 4 areas, which includes DTSS and adjacent communities.

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The head in sand brigade that wants to make excuses for this murder say Silver Spring is no more dangerous than anywhere else and particularly DTSS near the transit station. They say that if you are near transit after dark in the DMV, you should expect violence. I am not the one who is arguing this. I am just asking questions about this because if it is true, then we should not want transit in our communities if we also have to accept the risk of getting murdered.

Who exactly is this "we" who should not want transit in "our" communities, and which transit are you saying "we" should not want? And why aren't you saying that "we" should not want parking garages, which is where the murder actually occurred?

I’m honestly confused at this point. Is violence a fact if life and urbanization that society should accept happens everywhere and particularly in urbanized areas?

Is there a reason why there’s more violent crime and murders in DTSS or it is just a freak statistical artifact?

Crime is always higher in urban areas because there are more people. Crime rate is higher in rural states but that is per capital no straight numbers.

Poverty and the lack of resources like Appalachia have high crime rates.

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

You’d have a strong case if all of these incidents happened in the same month, like the three murders in DTSS this December, instead of decades apart.

Which HS did those murderers go to?

Blair? Wheaton? Einstein?

Back to the original question, what years did these deaths happen?

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

You’d have a strong case if all of these incidents happened in the same month, like the three murders in DTSS this December, instead of decades apart.

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

You’d have a strong case if all of these incidents happened in the same month, like the three murders in DTSS this December, instead of decades apart.

Which HS did those murderers go to?

Blair? Wheaton? Einstein?

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The head in sand brigade that wants to make excuses for this murder say Silver Spring is no more dangerous than anywhere else and particularly DTSS near the transit station. They say that if you are near transit after dark in the DMV, you should expect violence. I am not the one who is arguing this. I am just asking questions about this because if it is true, then we should not want transit in our communities if we also have to accept the risk of getting murdered.

Who exactly is this "we" who should not want transit in "our" communities, and which transit are you saying "we" should not want? And why aren't you saying that "we" should not want parking garages, which is where the murder actually occurred?

I’m honestly confused at this point. Is violence a fact if life and urbanization that society should accept happens everywhere and particularly in urbanized areas?

Is there a reason why there’s more violent crime and murders in DTSS or it is just a freak statistical artifact?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't feel safe going out to eat anymore. I have stopped going to some DC restaurants and certainly stopped going to Silver Spring area. I prefer Howard County, Frederick County and Upper Montgomery County.

Same. I live near DTSS but we go to a Columbia Mall or Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in downtown Silver Spring for 10 years (2000 to 2010). Sometimes I had to work late and I was never comfortable coming out of the metro station at 10pm and walking to my apartment. Often my husband would come get me.

Sad that it hasn't changed.

No one should be comfortable walking out of metro at 10 PM anywhere in the DMV.

If having transit stations makes us so unsafe that we cannot leave our homes after dark then why should we want more transit stations?

Because we want to be able to leave our homes after dark.

Okay, so we need transit because we need to be able to leave our homes after dark, however if you use transit after dark you should expect to be met with violence. I’m not a brain genius, but this does not seem like something that I would want.

Thank goodness cars are safe and there hasn't been an increase in fatal car accidents and traffic violations or anything.

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

You’d have a strong case if all of these incidents happened in the same month, like the three murders in DTSS this December, instead of decades apart.

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Anonymous wrote:
The head in sand brigade that wants to make excuses for this murder say Silver Spring is no more dangerous than anywhere else and particularly DTSS near the transit station. They say that if you are near transit after dark in the DMV, you should expect violence. I am not the one who is arguing this. I am just asking questions about this because if it is true, then we should not want transit in our communities if we also have to accept the risk of getting murdered.

Who exactly is this "we" who should not want transit in "our" communities, and which transit are you saying "we" should not want? And why aren't you saying that "we" should not want parking garages, which is where the murder actually occurred?

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Anonymous wrote:The police have got to do a better job in DTSS. It seems to attract youth from neighboring areas and shootings have gotten out of control. Years ago, it wasn't like this. It's a shame and I feel sorry for the businesses that will suffer when people don't feel safe going there anymore.

There have only been a few people shot in DTSS in the last few years. Lots of other crimes, lots of gunshots at night with no one reported hit, but there isn’t an epidemic of people being shot.

And what do you mean about attracting youth from neighboring areas? Bringing in people who don’t live in 20910 is a goal of the area. 20910 residents can’t support businesses on our own. We want people to come from all over to shop, eat, and enjoy entertainment and recreation venues. Most youth are not committing any crimes. They are however, often working class and Black or Brown which triggers the gentrifiers. Not louder than WJ and Churchill kids at Montgomery Mall. Not ruder than kids at Whitman, Wootten,or MoCo’s private HSs.

WJ, Churchill, Wooten, Whitman, and private school kids are not shooting people in parking garage stairwells.

A WJ graduate stabbed someone in Montgomery mall parking garage.

A Whitman student killed his mom.

Hugely killed his girlfriend Love

So yes student from those schools kill people.

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in downtown Silver Spring for 10 years (2000 to 2010). Sometimes I had to work late and I was never comfortable coming out of the metro station at 10pm and walking to my apartment. Often my husband would come get me.

Sad that it hasn't changed.

No one should be comfortable walking out of metro at 10 PM anywhere in the DMV.

If having transit stations makes us so unsafe that we cannot leave our homes after dark then why should we want more transit stations?

Because we want to be able to leave our homes after dark.

Okay, so we need transit because we need to be able to leave our homes after dark, however if you use transit after dark you should expect to be met with violence. I’m not a brain genius, but this does not seem like something that I would want.