This. I've seen '80s-era car chases set in "DC" that involved numerous palm trees. On the other hand, there's DC Cab, which aside from a few alley scenes that were apparently filmed in NYC, was shot almost entirely on location in DC. It's actually a pretty amazing historical document at this point.

> Waiting for the comments about how things were worse in the 80s.

how many violent crimes have there been YTD? how many violent crimes YTD were there on the same day on average in the last 40 years?

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WaPo had a story on it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/23/shootings-southeast-dc-killed/

The last thing the Post wants to do is cover crime in DC.

People shouldn’t be shot.

It WAS worse in the 1990s.

I don’t see the lie in either statement.

Lol

"Come to DC! It's not as bad as it could be!"

Maybe the speed cameras will stop all the shootings

Good thing they are adding 300 traffic cameras to keep us safe

Sounds like you talked to a specific type of DCer.

🤔🙄

As someone who quit twitter recently because of it’s unhinged owner it’s gotten harder for me to get news on incidents in my area of the city

Okay but I want to see how the atv situation plays out.

Hana Market over on U Street should have everything you need.

Immediately suburban Maryland just beyond the residential. Absolutely loaded with family owned authentic market. Silver Spring & CP, Rockville out 355 all the way to Gaithersburg. Lots of options.

Seems “photoshopped”/superimposed to me … this shot of the monument looks like it was taken at the far end of the tidal basin to me … houses could be a number of places

80's photoshop. 95% of DC based TV, especially in the 80's, never saw the city

Was waiting for someone to mention this. Heard it and wasn’t sure if it was gunshots or not

What are the easy steps to solve it?

There’s an online Asian market Umami Cart that delivers. They should have hot pot stuff

yeah, shooting and murders are up in every part of the county - red and blue; rich and poor; tough and lax on crime; urban and rural. shit is wild out there; lots o guns, lots of anger; lots o shooting; lots of road rage; etc

everyone thinks it is unique to their own little world. it isn't.

Thank god more speed cameras are coming in, amirite?! /s

Violent crime generally increases with warmer weather

"Waiting for the comments about how things were worse in the 80s."

You seem to want to have that fight, it was also worse in the 90s as well if that makes you feel better? Not saying that gun violence isn't bad anytime but things can be bad more than once. One does not exclude the other and helps for a larger historical context. I would say knowing the history of crime and violence in the city makes it more important then ever to fix it and get it right, not to sweep it under the rug.

Yep. I moved to DC in the 1990s. I knew people who got mugged in Dupont and Foggy Bottom. We were all wary of the city, but going out was cheap and you could rent or buy a place without problem.

Then prices shot up, but at least crime went down. Some people liked the trade off and others hated it, depending a lot on how much money you had.

Expensive and unsafe is a terrible combination, but it won't last long. Either the city fixes the crime problem, or people will leave again and prices will fall.