Posted on 11/25/2015 8:32:23 AM PST by Perseverando
A group of roughly 40 Capitol Hill residents gathered Friday morning at a local coffee shop to discuss the recent surge of violence in the area. As the meeting kicked off, another shooting occurred just two blocks away.
According to a Metropolitan Police Department alert, a shooting occurred at the corner of 13th and Pennsylvania Ave SE, and the suspect fled toward downtown D.C. in a blue or black car.
The meeting, and most recent shooting, came on the heels of what some calling the “Reign of Terror†that occurred Wednesday night. Five people were mugged in the neighborhood within 30 minutes, and now people are calling for a larger police presence.
"This is 100 percent unacceptable," D.C. Councilman Charles Allen, who represents the Capitol Hill area, told the crowd. "I’ve got some neighbors that are very frustrated, and some are very scared."
Police say they captured five suspects believed to be involved with the Wednesday night crime spree.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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"Denise Krepp, another member of the Capitol Hill community and a former lawyer with the United States Maritime Administration, told TheDCNF earlier this month that the large spike in crime can be attributed to the fact that these crimes largely go unpunished.
She serves as a neighborhood commissioner and said she saw a huge uptick in violent crimes during the summer in Capitol Hill. But she said many criminals were given free passes by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which has jurisdiction over the city."
What is unsaid is that these crimes are committed by Negro youth. Capitol Hill is not too far away from some pretty bad neighborhoods. The youth are making incursions into the more upscale Capitol Hill neighborhood.
I would draw a 1,000 foot circle around the White House, and Congress, along with the memorial areas....and that’s as far as you should consider SAFE. I spent 3.5 years there....leaving in the summer of 2013. I even walked around the Anacosta area, and the east side of town...which are definitely no-go areas after dark.
For a six by six mile area....it’s thug-city, with these few federalized zones where cops are in abundance.
It wasn’t all that long ago that 13th was a no-go area. “Capitol Hill” is bigger than it used to be! Which, is good.
Also true is that a whole lot of the people living there have a direct line to the media, so any complaint gets local and federal attention. (I moved into an even tougher neighborhood a few years after the riots. We had to work hard for that publicity, but we got there. It makes a difference.)
Lanier and the police in DC are really good. There always bad apples in the transitional areas, and when they are taken down, things clear up in the (good) neighborhoods for a good part of a year. Then there new muggers. But fewer than years before. “Gentrification” is a process, not something that happens and is done.
This is NEWs? Newspapers were reporting this fifty years ago about crime areas a block or two from the White House!
Why do you rob banks?
That’s where the money is!
A larger police presence would only cause more of these "Obama sons" to be shot, and cause more "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations which lead to more black crime, which cause (white) people to call for a larger police presence, causing more.. ad infinitum
A blue or black car? Why you give the color of the car? Of what possible relevance could that be? Do I need a sarcasm tag?
But a look at the bulk of the correspondence over a nine-month period of those using the service had some people expressing suspicions about African Americans. About 90 percent of the photographs that were put up showed blacks. And there were descriptions in offensive language.
Gee, WaComPost, do you think the BEHAVIOR of the blacks might have had something to do with the attitude towards them?
I’ve lived here all my life, and you’re right about that radius around the most predominant tourist sites.
There is a process of older properties being bought, renovated, and going to yuppies. There was some WaPo report from around 2011 that suggested by 2030....the bulk of DC residents would be non-blacks.
Let me revise that a bit: Georgetown is pretty safe, and the K Street corridor and business district is safe during the day (I routinely jog after work in the business district and have never had any trouble, except, perhaps, for dodging a few attorneys with briefcases trying to hail a cab!). I lived in Adams Morgan for a year — nice, historic apartment — saw a bust almost every night from my window. It was, however, a great location for telling people about the Lord! I was amazed at how receptive people could be.
And "I" live in fear OF the capitol every day!
Why is Washington D.C. a city anyway? What it should be is a strict Capital, with Federal officers in charge of security.
More joy of living with negros.
Other way around. Gentrification is pushing the good neighborhoods further out.
Used to be it wasnt a good idea to go past 4th and Penn SE (Tune Inn). Or maybe 6th and Penn (Mr. Henry’s, iirc).
8th was definitely no-go, although there were amusing stories of reverse muggings by Marines from the 8th and I barracks. 8th is now firmly gentrified.
In general, Americans are truly afraid of what goes on in DC, particularly in the Federal buildings.
Sorry to hear about the out-of-control muggings in the Dist. of Corruption. But I have my own problems—being mugged BY D.C.
The entire District is undergoing massive and rapid gentrification. Young professionals working directly for the fed or NGOs, a large gay population, and right now it's where the jobs are. All along 14th Street north from the White House, and in Northeast. Studio condos are going for half a million or more depending on amenities, and rents are ridiculous. And these new inhabitants are pushing into the older crime-ridden areas. If it keeps pace, pretty soon all the working poor will be driven out. Personally, I never feel comfortable there except in G'town or Adams-Morgan. The area around the Verizon Center is borderline IMO.
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