Anonymous wrote:"More than three-quarters of Washingtonians (77 percent) feel they are “very” or “somewhat” safe from crime in their neighborhoods, up from 69 percent in 2022 and about the same percentage as in November 2019, before the pandemic," the Post reported today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/dc-residents-feel-safe-post-schar-school-poll/

But more than 50 percent of D.C. residents say crime in D.C. is an "extremely" or "very" serious problem overall.

Interesting context for the recent developments in D.C. politics...

Anonymous wrote:There’s a huge difference between very safe somewhat safe. Would you send your kids to a school that was deemed “somewhat safe?”

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure that “somewhat safe” is a ringing endorsement…

NP. According to the graph, that 70% is composed of 29% who feel "very safe" and 48% who feel "somewhat safe." So, less than 1/3 actually feel "safe" in their neighborhoods. Hard to know how respondents interpreted "somewhat safe."

The other categories are "not too safe" at 15%, and "not safe at all" at 8%. If you add those two up, you get 23% who feel "not too" or "not al all" safe.

That's not a whole lot lower than the 29% who feel safe. In fact, with a margin of error of 4.5 percentage points, they could be the same number.

Anonymous wrote:I live in a neighborhood that has had a lot of ups and downs in the past 20 years (Trinidad) and I gotta tell you-- increased police presence works. It just does.

Part of the issue is when you have higher levels of certain situations and behaviors (unhoused folks, people hanging out on corners drinking and smoking), it is very easy for it to move toward some very undesirable activity quickly (illegal drug use, low level dealing, fighting, street harassment, etc.). Having cops patrolling an area and otherwise making their presence known (coming to ANC meetings, getting to know local businesses and longtime residents) makes a huge difference. It deters the worst behaviors because people know there are cops around, and it also I creased the likelihood that the cops will be called before a bad situation (drunk/high people fighting) becomes a truly dangerous one (people shooting/knifing each other).

Cops are good. Sorry not sorry. I read all the literature in the defund the police movement and heard people out because I do find police violence troubling. But at the end of the day, I feel safer when I know the cops are present and checking in. Especially living in a neighborhood with a decent amount of behavior that can escalate to something scary but actually rarely dies because the cops are around. I have zero interest in returning to the Trinidad of 2005 or 2010.

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Anonymous wrote:What I hate about you crime deniers is lack of any empathy for the victims. You are not brave. You are selfish and a bad person.

You know my inner feelings? Tell me more.

From my view, I empathize with any victim of a crime; I don't agree with people who believe more police is the solution. I don't think that makes me a selfish and bad person.

I think it does, particularly if you are neither poor nor black. Polls confirm my lived experiences living in neighborhoods which are poor and/or black which is that people who are poor or black want the same amount or more police. These groups are disproportionately impacted by violent crime, not affluent whites.

Nonsense such as “abolish the police” and “restorative justice” is created and endorsed by privileged well educated whites in an attempt to virtue signal to other like-minded peers. They don’t mind that it doesn’t actually work because they are not the victims of violent crime.

The part in bold is true and well-put.

If you had any doubt that well funded, extreme-left think tanks and “research” coming out of the Ivies are behind the movements destroying urban life in the US, consider:

- Chesa Boudin: Former DA of San Francisco. Read up on his past; who his parents are and who his foster parents are: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesa_Boudin

- Larry Krasner; Philadelphia DA. His first day in office, he fired every experienced assistant DA (virtually all of whom were democrats) and replaced them with extreme leftist “social justice warriors” who convict no one (except possibly white police officers). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Krasner take a guess who funded his campaign (hint: Soros)

Or even Charles Allen, who led the destructive 2018 DC criminal code revision, including the idiotic idea to raise the age of lenient “juvenile offender” from 18 to 26 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:What I hate about you crime deniers is lack of any empathy for the victims. You are not brave. You are selfish and a bad person.

You know my inner feelings? Tell me more.

From my view, I empathize with any victim of a crime; I don't agree with people who believe more police is the solution. I don't think that makes me a selfish and bad person.

I think it does, particularly if you are neither poor nor black. Polls confirm my lived experiences living in neighborhoods which are poor and/or black which is that people who are poor or black want the same amount or more police. These groups are disproportionately impacted by violent crime, not affluent whites.

Nonsense such as “abolish the police” and “restorative justice” is created and endorsed by privileged well educated whites in an attempt to virtue signal to other like-minded peers. They don’t mind that it doesn’t actually work because they are not the victims of violent crime.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure that “somewhat safe” is a ringing endorsement…

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I hate about you crime deniers is lack of any empathy for the victims. You are not brave. You are selfish and a bad person.

You know my inner feelings? Tell me more.

From my view, I empathize with any victim of a crime; I don't agree with people who believe more police is the solution. I don't think that makes me a selfish and bad person.