Posted on 08/11/2006 7:12:35 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Because the Washington Post wants to obscure the basic reality of the situation, we believe that visitors to the nation's capital should be warned that there is a crime emergency in effect, sparked by a sharp increase in homicides, and they are potential victims.
The fact is that white tourists are being injured and killed by roving black male gangs, who are even showing up in exclusive areas such as Georgetown where some rich reporters live behind iron gates. The Post, however, has a policy of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the real nature of the problem.
In D.C., it appears, you're not supposed to talk about the racial aspect of the problem. Black police chief Charles H. Ramsey temporarily reassigned a white police commander who warned residents to be aware of suspicious black people in a section of the city where a white man, a British citizen by the name of Alan Sennit, was murdered by having his throat slit by a group of black male thugs. Ramsey considered his comments racially offensive, even though they were true.
The commander, Andy Solberg, had said, "This is not a racial thing to say that black people are unusual in Georgetown." Georgetown is the fancy and affluent area of the city that was described in a July 16 Post headline as "a virtually all-white enclave." While Solberg was reassigned for drawing attention to the potential threat posed by groups of black males wandering through white areas of the city and killing people, Courtland Milloy of the Post in a July 12 column quoted Ramsey himself as saying that "Young black males, in groups of five to six, ages 13 to 15, are displaying handguns and beating their victims."
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In other news, the sky is blue.
The traffic was at a crawl so I wasn't endangering any lives ... only the livelihoods of a potential mugger or two.
Washington, D.C. is what you get when Congress runs a city.
I'm in D.C. every day...I'm surprised you survived your foray into the ghetto. Note: Don't do that ever again!!
We were planning to take our kids there for an educational field trip in spring. Is this enough of a problem that we shouldn't go? Any tips for places to stay and visit that are actually safe? I talked to a guy who lives in Virginia and sometimes works in DC and he said he thought they had gotten a pretty good handle on the crime (at least in the tourist areas) and felt it would be safe.
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...hanging around the gates at Walter Reed on a Friday night to be certain the troop supporters don't momentarily block the sidewalk, or making sure no one is smoking a cigarette anywhere it is prohibited, or hunting down those criminals that don't wear seat belts, or are going 11 miles over the speed limit on the interstate.....
The Northwest Area is safe. When you get up around the Capitol it's iffy. And no matter where you are, don't walk at night or take metro...take a cab. I lived in Adams Morgan for a year. I found it perfectly fine during the day, but at night it became another place althogether.
Police departments have had their primary function re-cast into revenue generation. Actually trying to "protect and serve" is pretty much out the window.
When we visited D.C. and wandered off the beaten path, we were in the ghetto before we knew what happened. It's a shame that you can't go far from the tourist area. Don't the locals get fed up?
I no longer live in the area so I wouldn't want to guess about what's safe, especially with a couple of young kids along. You just have to remember that you're going into a foreign country and "watching your back" has an amplified meaning because the bad guys are armed and you're not. And the cops are probably more focused on writing tickets to produce revenue for the city than doing anything to protect you and your family.
"We were planning to take our kids there for an educational field trip in spring. Is this enough of a problem that we shouldn't go? Any tips for places to stay and visit that are actually safe? I talked to a guy who lives in Virginia and sometimes works in DC and he said he thought they had gotten a pretty good handle on the crime (at least in the tourist areas) and felt it would be safe."
Nah, it's too dangerous. You should just stay at home.
Of course, I've lived here in the DC metro area for the past 8 years and have not yet been the victim of a violent (or any) crime. But it's only a matter of time I'm sure. It's mighty irresponsible of me to even leave the house. Maybe I should work from home. Who knows what kind of violence awaits me out there.
"When we visited D.C. and wandered off the beaten path, we were in the ghetto before we knew what happened. It's a shame that you can't go far from the tourist area. Don't the locals get fed up?"
I'm fed up with the high cost of real estate around here, but not much else. It's a nice area in my parts, but I keep hearing about how it's a third world country. Maybe I should be afraid!
How long have you lived in DC?
Black Gangs Terrorize D.C.
Gee! Who woulda thunk it? ;-\
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