[central_va]

DC is a terrible and DANGEROUS place to raise a family. Why would anyone live in the District is beyond me.

[NRx]

Read the whole thing.

[MinorityRepublican]

D.C. actually cleaned up and. 3came a nice place to live from 2000 to 2020.

[PUGACHEV]

D.C. is a terrible and dangerous city to live in, much less raise a family, and it has been that way at least since the mid sixties. I am the second generation of my family to have been born and raised in the city. In the '50s it was a relatively peaceful place, even if if strictly segregated. My mother told me that in the '20s, '30s and '40s, you could walk anywhere in the city at anytime of day or night without fear. I am not sure she really meant "anywhere", but from her point of view, safety in the city was not a significant concern. This all changed with the riots in 1968. Throughout the '70s the city suffered more than one murder a day, and the areas the author mentions, like Shaw, were surrounded by huge multi-block open-air heroin markets.

I lived off Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill in the '70s, near the emaciation statue in the article. In two years, there were three triple murders within one block of my apartment, my car was stolen, I was robbed at gunpoint, and twice someone tried to break into my apartment while I was there. Two blocks from my apartment, some gunmen crashed a party of law students, lined them up, made them strip naked, and then shot several of the males.

The author moved to D.C. in 2003, so he cannot know how it was like before then. He compares it to Brooklyn, as if Brooklyn were the negative standard for unsafe places, and perhaps the areas below Prospect Park were pretty bad once, but that was D.C until recently and much worse.

[antidemoncrat]

Every Democratic controlled city is becoming a dangerous place to try to raise a family.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

I worked in the Disgrace of Columbia for 5 years. Would never go back there. A cesspool.

[Jim Noble]

NW DC has been very nice until recently.