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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure where this narrative that DC is one of the most dangerous cities in the world narrative is coming from, it's sick.
Many businesses were suffering prior to the pandemic and were on the brink of bankruptcy anyway; COVID just sped that process up.
DC chose to lockdown and delay re-opening for 2.5 years. Everything is just resetting itself.

The hysteria is baffling and ridiculous.

Are you really so racist that 220 murders (by October!) don’t bother you because most of the victims are Black?

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s address the real problems facing the residents of DC and rename more things.

LOL

This is also what you get for having 32% of JR "at risk youth" mixing with wealthy NIMBYs. It's like oil and water.

Just make the schools in other wards better and stop forcing diversity

Where do you get 32% from? It makes sense. Pre-covid - Tenley was not the dumpster it is today and I did not witness Wilson kids committing theft or throwing bottles at cars or smoking weed. Not sure why it went downhill.

No meaningful consequences. Duh.

Anonymous wrote:Some people on here want to focus this discussion on Tenleytown and others on Dc in general. DC is experiencing high crime at the moment, there's no doubt about that when you look at the statistics. Most of NW DC, as in the past decades, is mainly insulated from that. Again, see the stats. There is no rash of carjackings, shootings, drug turf wars, etc in upper NW DC. I went to high school in this area in the late seventies and until recently, had kids in DCPS schools around Tenleytown. Back in the day, there was a lot more underage drinking, plenty of weed use and more teenage pregnancy. Kids driving under the influence seems to have also been much, much higher. Fights occurred at schools just like today. I remember going to some of the first Ft. Reno concerts; there was mayhem afterwards with stoned, drunk kids with cigarettes dangling from their mouths seeking the closest party after each event. Today, parents come to functions like those concerts and bring their kids! The number of unhoused people has gone way up but that's everywhere. Retail has struggle around here [like in many places] since online shopping became popular.
There is certainly more diversity today: There are way more Jews, Blacks, Asians and other groups living in the formerly all-white neighborhoods of upper NW although this part of DC could still be labeled Caucasia as we used to do - decades ago. I think some people are triggered by seeing large groups of African American students at JR HS and hanging out at adjacent Tenleytown. Several decades ago, kids hang out even more - remember, there was no internet and as I remember it, there was much less helicopter parenting and kids could "free range" more than they are allowed to now. So things have changed as everywhere does but what strikes me, having lived here as a youth and returned decades later, is how much it has stayed the same.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s address the real problems facing the residents of DC and rename more things.

LOL

This is also what you get for having 32% of JR "at risk youth" mixing with wealthy NIMBYs. It's like oil and water.

Just make the schools in other wards better and stop forcing diversity

Where do you get 32% from? It makes sense. Pre-covid - Tenley was not the dumpster it is today and I did not witness Wilson kids committing theft or throwing bottles at cars or smoking weed. Not sure why it went downhill.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let’s address the real problems facing the residents of DC and rename more things.

LOL

This is also what you get for having 32% of JR "at risk youth" mixing with wealthy NIMBYs. It's like oil and water.

Just make the schools in other wards better and stop forcing diversity

Where do you get 32% from? It makes sense. Pre-covid - Tenley was not the dumpster it is today and I did not witness Wilson kids committing theft or throwing bottles at cars or smoking weed. Not sure why it went downhill.

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Anonymous wrote:Retail corps like to blame crime whenever they shut down stores.

But we're actually seeing the impact of crime. Target and CVS (off of Wisconsin) now have guards and kids have to wait or they are not allowed entry without an adult. Many products are locked up for a reason. I don't see this same nonsense at other locations. If these establishments close, it's because of crime.

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s address the real problems facing the residents of DC and rename more things.

LOL

This is also what you get for having 32% of JR "at risk youth" mixing with wealthy NIMBYs. It's like oil and water.

Just make the schools in other wards better and stop forcing diversity

Anonymous wrote:Retail corps like to blame crime whenever they shut down stores.

Anonymous wrote:Retail corps like to blame crime whenever they shut down stores.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine being scared of Tenleytown. Some of you seemingly don't have the courage to leave your houses. What's it like being scared of life?

The cavalier attitude that people have about living in the most dangerous capitol cities in the Western World, and one of the most dangerous cities in America, is sad. Tenleytown is a cesspool compared to the nice parts of NYC and Boston - cities that aren’t on a downward trajectory crime wise. Cleveland Park, Tenleytown, and Friendship Heights used to be the nicer parts of DC in the 90s and early 2000s. Why is it weird to you and others that people are disturbed that they’ve backslid?

If we’re doing comparisons to NYC, Tenleytown most closely resembles some UWS neighborhoods from about a decade ago, until young families moved in to revive them.

I lived in Cleveland Park in the 90s. It was not utopia. I passed by multiple homeless people on my way to school. All the stores had pan handlers. I witnessed a crack bust from my living room (tons of police cars chased a car and blocked it in and unloaded all the drugs maybe 100 feet from me). Random people would ring our doorbell and beg for money.

I mean it was a nice place to grow up but there was plenty of homelessness, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine being scared of Tenleytown. Some of you seemingly don't have the courage to leave your houses. What's it like being scared of life?

The cavalier attitude that people have about living in the most dangerous capitol cities in the Western World, and one of the most dangerous cities in America, is sad. Tenleytown is a cesspool compared to the nice parts of NYC and Boston - cities that aren’t on a downward trajectory crime wise. Cleveland Park, Tenleytown, and Friendship Heights used to be the nicer parts of DC in the 90s and early 2000s. Why is it weird to you and others that people are disturbed that they’ve backslid?

If we’re doing comparisons to NYC, Tenleytown most closely resembles some UWS neighborhoods from about a decade ago, until young families moved in to revive them.

I lived in Cleveland Park in the 90s. It was not utopia. I passed by multiple homeless people on my way to school. All the stores had pan handlers. I witnessed a crack bust from my living room (tons of police cars chased a car and blocked it in and unloaded all the drugs maybe 100 feet from me). Random people would ring our doorbell and beg for money.

I mean it was a nice place to grow up but there was plenty of homelessness, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Imagine being scared of Tenleytown. Some of you seemingly don't have the courage to leave your houses. What's it like being scared of life?

The cavalier attitude that people have about living in the most dangerous capitol cities in the Western World, and one of the most dangerous cities in America, is sad. Tenleytown is a cesspool compared to the nice parts of NYC and Boston - cities that aren’t on a downward trajectory crime wise. Cleveland Park, Tenleytown, and Friendship Heights used to be the nicer parts of DC in the 90s and early 2000s. Why is it weird to you and others that people are disturbed that they’ve backslid?

If we’re doing comparisons to NYC, Tenleytown most closely resembles some UWS neighborhoods from about a decade ago, until young families moved in to revive them.