What a maroon. If she had the wit of a cabbage, she would have said that DC is like any large city. Situational awareness is important. Most areas are fine. Some are not so fine. A few are sketchy enough to be considered dangerous, but even in those, if you are not wandering around like a fool and ignoring the obvious prompts, you are unlikely to become a statistic.
I’m almost surprised that KJP didn’t claim to be personally fearful of armed MAGA hat thugs roaming the streets of Cleveland Park or Kalorama.
The risk of being a victim of random street crime correlates highly with an area’s proximity to housing projects. Affluent, usually young, gentrifiers moving into transitioning neighborhoods with projects still nearby are overrepresented among the victims.
I am very familiar with DC.
They have an excellent police web site detailing crimes down to the block level with a full year’s history.
Much of the crime is petty but irritating—car break ins, apartment/condo breaks ins, shoplifting, weird homeless people and drug addicts harassing passersby and leaving needles on the street or on lawns etc etc etc.
Very few people want to live in places like that.
Night time is much worse—truly dangerous in many areas.
There are wealthy enclaves with lower crime rates—but those still have significantly more crime than “normal” suburbia.