Anyone who has been to D.C. knows that it is very safe to walk around. Only someone who watches way too much TV and never goes outside could actually believe that it is a crime-ridden dystopia. I've been there like 20 times over the last decade, all over the city, at all different times of day, and never once did I feel unsafe. Don't go certain places at 2 am. That is standard, smart advice pretty much anywhere in the world.
You don't have a legitimate basis for your opinion. DC was great a decade ago, and it still looks fine in most areas, but if you live there, you realize it's not fine.
I live in an expensive neighborhood in DC. I hear gunshots weekly, often during the day or early evening. Bullets went through the windows of my neighbor's condo (worth over a million). I have witnessed multiple carjackings. I have numerous friends who have been mugged. One mugger took my friend's key fob to his building and tried to break into his apartment, while his girlfriend was home alone and my friend was still being treated for injuries. This was in the middle of the day on 14th Street. I have friends who were at a fancy restaurant a year ago when all the diners had to hit the floor because people outside were shooting at each other and bullets were going all over the place. Dirtbike gangs ride around on the weekends like it's Fury Road.
It is probably a bit better than it was two years ago. The Metro has definitely gotten better since they installed the new gates and started enforcing fare evasion again. It's still not good by any stretch of the imagination. It's also not entirely the fault of the city government. The US Attorney (a federal official) is responsible for prosecuting most crime in the city, and for years the office has been largely uninterested. They want to be like other US Attorneys' offices, just focusing on big sexy cases, not handling a massive volume of routine street crime. If you talk to police in the city, they'll tell you that they are sick of arresting people for serious crimes and having the US Attorney decline to prosecute.
Thank you for the detailed observations as an actual resident there. NO sarcasm. I went to DC and had no issues but that was in '05. While I don't agree with everything Trump does this might be a good start. The key is--how long can they sustain an NG presence? If the NG leaves the criminals could come out of the woodwork again.
Thank you for the detailed observations as an actual resident there. NO sarcasm. I went to DC and had no issues but that was in '05. While I don't agree with everything Trump does this might be a good start. The key is--how long can they sustain an NG presence? If the NG leaves the criminals could come out of the woodwork again.
I also appreciate seeing actual DC residents in the thread. I lived in DC for 11 years and moved away during COVID. Not for some activist reason, but that we had realized a couple years before that we needed to get a bigger place and it was a good time to act. My wife and I both work remotely for the most part - I travel a lot - so it wasn't a big deal to move. I also lived in a nice area, the Palisades neighborhood, and it was extremely safe until around the time we started considering the move in 2019-ish when things started getting a little less safe with the homeless, lots of theft and break-ins, and random acts of violence in the area. Again, my area was really safe compared to other parts of DC.
Hoping others can answer, but my understanding is that after a week, Trump is going to remove the NG and use National Park Police and Capitol Police. Is that correct?
These guys spend all day bragging that theyre in power.
Then when they are asked to do the things they promised to do… they blame the democrats?
Weak. I guess the democrats are the ones actually in power still?
The Epstein saga is becoming a political dud & nothingburger.
-Google searches for Epstein are down 89% from just 3 weeks ago. -Trump's approval rating is holding steady & much higher than term 1 at this point in his presidency -Less than 1% say it's the nation's top issue pic.twitter.com/rnp2M8qzdf
I live in DC. Local media went crazy yesterday trying to downplay crime. They like to point out that it is down even though it appears that people are underreporting. Funny to see them put up results of their survey today. 71% favor Trump's decision to federalize. Reporter couldn't believe it.
Everyone here knows this is fake. Many red states have sky-high murder rates and opiate usage, but Trump will never, ever call out Republican leadership. Nor will he call out white violence, as when the lawmakers in Minnesota were shot, or the quadruple Idaho murders.
This is 100% selling against Democrats, by banging the Klansman drum. Trump has been playing that instrument for 40 years, ever since he tried to kill 5 innocent teens in the Central Park Five affair. Raised a Klansman, started his political career a Klansman, and will end it as one, too.
Everyone should be concerned about “fighting crime” with the military. There is no demonstrable need for it. It is just a false pretense for putting a force in place to squash dissent. Trump is planning to stay in office indefinitely. Posters here think that is fine or they slept through history.
Everyone should be concerned about “fighting crime” with the military. There is no demonstrable need for it. It is just a false pretense for putting a force in place to squash dissent. Trump is planning to stay in office indefinitely. Posters here think that is fine or they slept through history.
I live in DC. Local media went crazy yesterday trying to downplay crime. They like to point out that it is down even though it appears that people are underreporting. Funny to see them put up results of their survey today. 71% favor Trump's decision to federalize. Reporter couldn't believe it.
Everyone should be concerned about “fighting crime” with the military. There is no demonstrable need for it. It is just a false pretense for putting a force in place to squash dissent. Trump is planning to stay in office indefinitely. Posters here think that is fine or they slept through history.
There is zero chance you know anything about history.
What "dissent" are you even talking about?
Feral teenage morons are 100% the result of the policies of hopelessly naive people like yourself but wanting to stop them from ruining the capital of the US is not political to anyone but your cult.
Hopefully he will do the same with Baltimore, Chicago, New York, etc. Time to root out evil in this country. Get rid of immigrants, illegal or otherwise, the homeless as well. Replace all mayor's with right-thinking MAGA, as well as Congress - no need for any Dem's (and their evil take on America) - and cancel the mid-terms. Then and only then will America be safe from the evil of communism. Next Trump can return this country to the WASP heritage that it was and should be - Jesus was a white American, for whom American capitalism is the only true path to salvation, but only the economically advantaged should be allowed to survive and procreate. This should be our future.
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