when we happen to be in the district, we don’t go outside of NW and the immediate outskirts of the mall area. The rest is a no-go as far as I’m concerned. For us, the metro stops at metro center and Union Station. My wife was in uniform and walked right into the end of a wilding attack with multiple police agencies and rescue vehicles at the L’enfant Plaza station last year that curiously never made the news.
If you look at a map of the DC metro system, make it your business to stay away from every stop on the left side including the entire green line.
Don’t you mean the right side — Northeast and Southeast?
The left side is Northwest D.C. and Arlington and Montgomery County
A couple of years I flew out to Ohio to meet my family who had driven earlier. IT was cheaper to fly out of BWI, so I would get a rid to the Vienna metro (orange line), and then take the Orange line to metro center, and then the green line to Greenbelt, where I caught a bus to BWI.
I never felt particularly threatened, but it was during the day. On the other hand, I tend not to feel threatened, except walking around Richmond at night near my daughter’s college campus, which is like a war zone.