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Washington DC is now so crime-ravaged locals are driving tiny distances instead of walking and are too scared to go out during the day,
DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 13 September 2023 | HARRIET ALEXANDER

Posted on 09/13/2023 3:47:21 AM PDT by dennisw

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.

'It's very surprising that public safety is an issue in a neighborhood with such high traffic and major attractions.'

Ronald Moten, 53, who lives in Ward 7's Hillcrest neighborhood, said he now avoids going to the gas station at night for fear of being robbed.

He was arrested in the 1990s for selling crack, but now works with young people to keep them off the streets.

as woke city sees homicides spike by 29% in a YEAR There have been 190 murders in Washington DC this year, putting the city on track this year to overtake 2021 - with 227 - as the bloodiest in two decades

Homicides and robberies are up 29 and 67 per cent from the same time period last year, with murders approaching levels not seen in two decades

Neighboring Baltimore could end the year with under 300 killings for the first time since the riots over Freddie Gray's death in police custody in 2015.

Yet in Washington DC, one 58-year-old lobbyist told The Washington Post that he stopped walking in his neighborhood after he and his husband were attacked near Dupont Circle, and then had a bottle thrown at them outside Whole Foods. He and his husband left the city last month after 30 years, relocating to Maryland.

'I've always thought I could outrun any criminal in the past,' he said. 'I can't anymore. I'm a sitting duck.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: crime; crimeravaged; dc; ravaged
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1 posted on 09/13/2023 3:47:21 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: dennisw

Brandon’s third worldization of the USA at work here.


2 posted on 09/13/2023 3:52:22 AM PDT by inchworm (al )
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The biggest Scam is all the Federal “workers” sitting on their asses at home in the burbs. Pretending to work remotely. So their money is not being spent in DC......... So more crime in Washingtoon DC. The world’s joke.


3 posted on 09/13/2023 3:52:39 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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To: inchworm

Texas needs to bus tens more thousands of illegal aliens to DC, Fly them there too. To make the deal more enticing.


4 posted on 09/13/2023 3:55:25 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence & stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice)
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America’s capitol, shameful, our leaders have failed us all


5 posted on 09/13/2023 3:59:54 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: dennisw
More of Satan's fr'kn animals running loose the world!

As the nation's government and public schools try to remove God from our people's lives... they open the door to Satan and we now see so many of his animals running loose in the world. And they're trying to take over our kids lives at young age and then eventually our nation!

FOLLOWERS OF SATAN!!

6 posted on 09/13/2023 4:04:30 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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Where Demonrats govern.........You will find a SHITTHOLE!!!!!!


7 posted on 09/13/2023 4:05:49 AM PDT by afchief
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To: dennisw

voting dem always results in the same


8 posted on 09/13/2023 4:06:50 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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Interesting —
Washington DC with 700K people had 225 murders in 2021 i.e. 0.32 per 1000 people

Poland with 37,700K people had 625 murders in 2021 i.e. 0.016 per 1000 people

So DC is 20 times more violent than Poland


9 posted on 09/13/2023 4:07:06 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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Neighboring Baltimore could end the year with under 300 killings for the first time since the riots over Freddie Gray's death in police custody in 2015.

You know things have got to be bad when they're comparing you to Baltimore.

10 posted on 09/13/2023 4:08:19 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." - Kahlil Gibran)
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This is the Dems plan so they can institute martial law.

Yeah, that's what I think of them.

11 posted on 09/13/2023 4:13:04 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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Profile.
Stop.
Frisk.
Repeat.
Prosecute as adults.

Lethal force for property crimes.

End all gun free zones.
Constitutional carry.
Stand Your Ground.
Castle Doctrine.

Tax beta males and single women.
Subsidize rough righteous men.

Fine tune.

Its 90% black and new Latinx origin......but I can’t say that.

Oops.


12 posted on 09/13/2023 4:14:24 AM PDT by Lowell1775
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+1


13 posted on 09/13/2023 4:16:57 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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‘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.

If you vote stupid you get stupid.


14 posted on 09/13/2023 4:17:02 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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DC is 90% Democrats…end of story. Let me guess, they’ll continue to vote democrat because “Trump” and “killing babies”.
Insane


15 posted on 09/13/2023 4:19:50 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: dennisw
"Elections have consequences." - Barack Hussein Obama

Who did they vote for?

What did they think was going to happen by supporting Defund the Police and BLM?

(In Civil War 2.0, the Democrats are inflicting their own casualties. If Lincoln had Democrats like we have today, he wouldn't have needed to hire Sherman destroy their cities. They are doing it to themselves.)

16 posted on 09/13/2023 4:23:04 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” /"Every nation has the government it deserves.” )
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It’s the deliberate destruction of the country, being carried out in broad daylight, right out in the open.


17 posted on 09/13/2023 4:25:24 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: dennisw

And there you have it. Crime in “urban neighborhoods “ is contributing to climate change. WHAT will Dems do.


18 posted on 09/13/2023 4:29:54 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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I must be doing something right … because I read a story like this and I honestly DGAF.


19 posted on 09/13/2023 4:32:09 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”)
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To: dennisw

You reap what you sow.


20 posted on 09/13/2023 4:33:44 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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