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Tommys2Turnt t1_j6na7li wrote

Reply to Anyone miss the old DC? by sg8910

I find this hilarious. Every time I get in a cab the cabbies loves to tell me stories about getting robbed at gunpoint in my neighborhood and how much it’s changed sense the 80s.

The last one told me about how you use to be able to pick up prostitutes all around the White House until Ragen was sitting on the porch one night and told his secret service to do something useful. The cabbie said he had the secret service loading up his car with hookers and telling him to drop them off in falls church lol

All this to say it’s all relative man. The old days were roughhh depending on how old you go

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Macrophage87 t1_j6n9c24 wrote

Reply to Anyone miss the old DC? by sg8910

When was this? Violent crime rates in general are down year over year. It's way safer than the late 80's/early 90s. Crime dropped in almost every ward in 2022. It's more likely that you are primed for observing danger and spot it even if it doesn't exist.

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Evaderofdoom t1_j6n91gt wrote

Reply to Anyone miss the old DC? by sg8910

I think when you spend time in VA DC feels less safe because there is a bump in population density. There are more people in your personal space. Things have gotten slightly worse sense the Obama years but was never a totally safe idyllic place many thought it was. You should always be aware of your surroundings in a city. It's still a great city that is safe most the time but you should always watch out for yourself.

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butteredfields OP t1_j6n8t2h wrote

Reply to BIPOC Folks, be wary of Mason & Greens in Capitol Hill (a cute, sustainable grocery store) by butteredfields

For the sake of archiving information and holding structural powers accountable to their words, below is Mason & Green’s now-deleted reply to this post (i took a screenshot of the original):

“As the owner of the store, I sincerely apologize for your experience. Our store is built around helping people and the planet, and as such we have no tolerance of racism, period. Our employees do not profile or take any sort of approach like this for loss prevention, we do not believe this achieves anything. As a customer, you may not know that our employees like to make themselves available to answer any questions. We have many products people haven't seen before, and naturally people have questions. We like for the staff to not be pushy. We have employees who are in high school, and some who are retired, from all backgrounds and walks of life, and we wouldn't have it any other way. In your post on Google you mentioned "lower employees." At Mason & Greens we don't call people "lower." You also thought the employee could have been the manager, this is not the case, as the manage is a Navajo woman in her early 20's. Here you assume it is one of the owners, it is not, Anna & I do not fit your description. In a perfect world people would not make assumptions or judgements. People would not be so quick to think a nice gentleman watching birds in a park was up to no good. People would not be so quick to call someone, who some may think is awkward, biased or a racist, when she was just there to help. Again, apologies for your experience, you are more than welcome to get in touch anytime to discuss what's on your mind.”

Edit: Here is the thread in response to this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/10phd6e/comment/j6kzx0l/?context=3

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