Yeah, consider the source...
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wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 12:55 last edited by
But is crime worse in D.C.?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12511809/washington-dc-crime-surge-murders.html
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wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 13:38 last edited by Aqua Letifer
I'm sorry, but I read this and oatmeal about shot out of my nose:
Nora Fanfalone, 28, a management consultant, said she now uses the service entrance to her downtown apartment building to avoid being shoved by an aggressive man again, or witnessing a gunfight on her doorstep, as happened recently.
'I'm like, 'How did I get this wrong? I live across from the Smithsonian and there's an Hermès store two blocks away,' she told the paper.
Now the thought
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments her; round she throws her baleful eyes
That witnessed huge affliction and dismay
Mixed with unchecked privilege and her ignorance:
At once as far as stuffed shirts ken she views
The dismal situation waste and wild,
A city horrible, on all sides round -
wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 14:00 last edited by
Good thing you didn't have sausages for breakfast...
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wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 14:09 last edited by
@Jolly said in Yeah, consider the source...:
Good thing you didn't have sausages for breakfast...
Probably would have blown out the other end were that the case.
Anyway, yeah, could very well be crime is up in D.C. Sure is in Baltimore.
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@Jolly said in Yeah, consider the source...:
Good thing you didn't have sausages for breakfast...
Probably would have blown out the other end were that the case.
Anyway, yeah, could very well be crime is up in D.C. Sure is in Baltimore.
wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 14:13 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Yeah, consider the source...:
could very well be crime is up in D.C
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance
Robbery up 68%.
Auto Theft up 100%
Compare with the previous two years:
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wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 14:22 last edited by
Where, though? Some neighborhoods have always been bad. It'd be something else entirely if this started happening downtown (mean ol' men pushing people notwithstanding).
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Where, though? Some neighborhoods have always been bad. It'd be something else entirely if this started happening downtown (mean ol' men pushing people notwithstanding).
wrote on 13 Sept 2023, 14:37 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Yeah, consider the source...:
Where, though? Some neighborhoods have always been bad.
Of course. You can say the same thing about Chicago. For decades, there have been areas that I would not enter at night, and probably not in daylight either.
But in Chicago, the wave is spilling into other areas as well. The Loop has seen an uptick in robberies, as has the Mag Mile.