[FreeTheHostages]

Wow, interesting post CJ. I can tell that you, like me, have lived in this city.

Re crime & D.C., it boils my blood that the Washington Post thinks the crime issue in this city is policy brutality, where anyone who's lived here knows that although we do have a lot of good cops, altogether too many are lazy or illiterate and the real crime issue is cops that do nothing and crime statistics that are doctored by the police bureaucrats.

[CJ Wolf]

I've never actually lived in DC, Virginia native. I have worked the docks and boats on main st for a number of years in the 80s. Being so close to S.E. I made some interesting friends and saw some interesting things. But it was just enough time in the city to know that DC isn't any army post. :-)