I am glad you are okay!!! Please take care of yourself. Sending you lots of good thoughts

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FBI’s jurisdiction is domestic crime, not foreign intelligence. This isn’t “tell us the rotten shit happening in Donbas.”

Obviously, political influence ops. But the Kremlin is very obviously dying for hard currency. I wonder what those dirtbags are up to.

I was a student at GWU at the time. Remember the streets around campus all dug up as they built the blue line.

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The truth is that there is a lot of unwarranted hysteria about sex trafficking. You get these weird rumors passed around suburbia that sex traffickers are sneaking about and marking the cars of single women in shopping malls and other absurd things. And if you take the time to research the trafficking that largely occurs, it almost never involves snatching somebody off the street.

And I was replying to somebody who said that things "didn't add up" and I was trying to explain why they might feel that to be the case.

OP was the victim of a violent crime, and luckily was not a further victim of a worse crime. I'm certainly not lecturing her nor even directly addressing her.

The comment was not well worded but people are not often trafficked by random kidnapping , people in bad situations are normally lured in, its a pretty common myth that traffickers will just go and pick people at random off the street. There are plenty of sources to back this up.

https://www.verifythis.com/amp/article/news/verify/social-media/most-human-sex-trafficking-victims-not-abducted-kidnapped-by-strangers/536-68b63413-81be-490f-aa66-9000d44650c5

https://letgrow.org/do-human-traffickers-kidnap-children/

https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2020/01/police-survivors-debunk-human-trafficking-kidnapping-myths.html?outputType=amp

Its like an inside-out Metro station.

Hey OP. I live in the area and I frequent this street a lot and it can be a little sketchy. Please start carrying mace or some type of protection on you.

That's certainly an attempt at twisting a statement.

Man my heart goes out to his family and friends. A life cut too short. Rest in Peace!

Please elaborate!!!

>Virtually nobody is abducted off the street randomly to be trafficked.

>There's no need, when they can just pluck kids out of poor neighborhoods, even more likely, prey upon immigrants illegal and otherwise.

Wait so if you're poor or undocumented you're virtually nobody?

Headline: "DC Public Library forced by 1st Amendment to accommodate right-wing radicals that abuse 1st Amendment."

Need to record!!

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4th and N st SW is tame as hell, it's a block from the metro and right by two major coops

Im as liberal as they come, good, DC is absolutely atrocious on crime.

... you can't be serious.

How is someone supposed to distinguish between a singular attempted rape and sex trafficking? The only way to find out would be to let the events play out, which would be horrific.

If she reported it to the police and still calls it potential sex trafficking, then just let it be that instead of splitting hairs on such a sensitive and traumatic ordeal.

You absolutely would wager correctly because "well actually it was rape" is an insane comment to make and lacks so much empathy.

It was the only segment of the system running through the urban core that had access to the Brentwood service and inspection shop and rolling stock storage yard. All of the other service and inspection shops and yards are at or near the ends of their respective lines. The line to New Carrollton was opened 2 1/2 years later because the yard at the end of that line had the capacity to store the remainder of the first order of 300 cars. Brentwood is only big enough for roughly 100 cars.

‘The primary purpose of transit is really to move people commuting from the burbs to the city center’ /s

It’s no different than any other big city in the US. There are worse spots but much of it is safe. Stay alert and teach your kids good habits.

It would be terrible if the parking lots were completely full prior to the time that they would need to arrive and set up, encouraging them. Only to find the Library deserted of patrons.

>Crime post trolls gonna crime post troll.

The number one post on this subreddit right now is by a person saying that they were "almost kidnapped by a Latino man" in DC (the poster also says DC has a "huge sex trafficking problem," which is factually not accurate).

But if you read their post and their comments, it sounds like they were walking outside, they saw what they say was a "latino man" in a truck circling a block a few times and the poster decided they were on the verge of being kidnapped and they reported it to the police. The person didn't actually get out of the truck and try to kidnap them.

Unfortunately, anecdotes have always driven public opinion, and policy decisions, around crime and criminal justice, whether based on fact or fantasy.