Everyone relax, this is part of being in a city, crime is DOWN, we don’t need police. Gentrifiers have no idea what it’s like in DC. ACAB.

You are only half right. The murder spike was in the 90s but the crack epidemic (Rayful Edmond) was in the 80s. If you are going got be dismissive and condescending at least be right.

Random or targeted?

surprise! the crime is everywhere !

I saw Ukrainian flags for sale at the Ace on 14th St. as of last week. They’re right at the top of the stairs - on the right side of the door frame as you exit the stairwell into the main second floor part of the store. Can’t remember price.

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In the eyes of the DC government, the shooters are the real victims here, not the 10 men shot.

The difference between the 80s and 90s and now is that those in charge back then were at least trying to stop the killings/shootings/etc.

😭😭 They told me the same thing & I witnessed my first car jacking in NE, my first time seeing someone get shot in NW, & then my first time seeing a cop pull out a gun on someone was in SW…… I have yet to witness a crime in SE

None on my block this time score!!!

I’ve seen 4 already. 🤦🏾‍♀️

Killmoenetwork posted it at 1am.

Unsure of exact time.

Que the dirt bikes

Go where the good stuff is and maybe not shitting where you eat? A lot of stolen cars end up on my street but no one steals cars off my street. (EOTR-NE)

Folks just exercising their second amendment

Good post - “At least we aren’t the murder capital anymore” isn’t much of a slogan.

I'm surprised to not read anything in that article about NoMa last night. I heard more than a dozen shots fired near 4th and Florida NE around midnight, followed by screeching tires and then almost immediately a helicopter.

Woah I live above the Safeway and didn’t hear about that. What time approximately?

The “fwiw” seemed like you were trying to add more than just location data … sorry if asking this question upset you

I mean, population wise it would make sense that there’s more crime WOTR. But that’s just not how things be.

Also a car-jacking spree yesterday.

Two dudes armed with handguns jacked one over by the Safeway in Hill East before driving EOTR with it.

Wild because that area is pedestrian heavy.

Huh, this just made me realize they no longer sell their syrups. During the height of the panda, you could buy bottles of all their stuff, from straight up simple syrup to the cherry blossom syrup.

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I don’t think your main complaint is that they got the years wrong in their sarcastic comment.

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I think the sentiment is still valid. The idea that whats happening now is still better then when DC was the murder capital is frequently cited on these posts. But that ignores the intervening years including recent history when carjackings, violent assaults, robberies and murders were much much lower. Living through a trough makes it painful to live near a peak. People can feel how much of this doesn’t have to happen. Couple that with opiates and tranquilizers that are so powerful rehabilitation and maintenance therapy doesn’t even seem like a viable public health option, it just doesn’t seem like its getting better anytime soon.