didn't the District use to do this with hotels, as well? Looks like they've leveled up.

DC crime stats 1992-2022:

* Theft / Larceny was reported under a single category until the mid 00's, but two separate categories in later years (Theft from Motor Vehicle and Theft (Other)). I've combined the two categories here for direct comparison between the reports.

Data for other years is available here:

• https://mpdc.dc.gov/annualreports
• https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/dccrime.htm

The level and impact of the disfunction here is staggering: Overpaying in some areas, causing working class families to be priced out of the market. Underpaying in others, causing unnecessary displacement. Not providing adequate services to people to ensure these buildings don't turn into slums.

Shameful work by the city, and great reporting by WaPo.

On a much less serious note, I had to do a double take when I saw that that woman's son was named River-Phoenix.

Do they ever have good points?

what’s the address? it could still come up

Right. What I mean is that even "everyone makes mistakes" is not a good excuse. Even if we take the bootlickers at face value it's still not good enough.

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I agree, but that was not what the commenters were saying on that post. They were using it as a defense, a justification for cops shooting an innocent person based on mistake identity

Remember that Officer Mike Fanone was run out of the MPD because he spoke out against the rioters who almost killed him, as well as the people who enabled the rioters. This guy Lamond is far from the only fan of the Proud Boys in those offices.

Really? Haven’t noticed it in NoVA or MD

> “everyone makes mistakes.”

Everyone does make mistakes. People aren't angry because cops make mistakes, even when those mistakes get innocent people killed.

People are angry because there are no consequences for those mistakes. If I make a mistake that gets someone killed, no matter how innocent and understandable that mistake is, my license gets yanked, I am unhirable, and I work at Subway for minimum wage for the rest of my life. If a cop does it nothing happens.

Similarly people aren't mad that there are corrupt cops, incompetent cops, malicious bad faith bully bastard cops. It is impossible to filter those out at the hiring process 100% of the time.

People are angry because those cops are protected instead of fired and or prosecuted.

Yup. But they aren't the topic of this conversation.

https://www.streetsensemedia.org/article/tensions-cleveland-park/

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

This one goes into detail re: a hearing before Bonds in 2019, these issues were known and likely a feature not a bug. https://thedcline.org/2019/05/31/a-connecticut-avenue-apartment-complex-shows-effects-of-a-legal-loophole-and-cracks-in-city-housing-subsidy-programs/

You realize police departments exist outside the U.S.??

> to get insight

They don't come here for the insights. A lot of subs dedicated to major cities have this same problem. There is probably an element of the urban hate that runs through a lot of conservative talking points at work.

The WP wrote @ this in articles re: Sedgewick Gardens back in 2019. Huge transfer of public $ into the hands of a few private landlords and management companies. Was discussed in hearings before Bonds back then too and at many community meetings. So much waste, fraud and abuse and probably kickbacks, too.

Seems weird that people use a subreddit about DC to get insight on the federal government. Aren’t there better subreddits than just this one, where it’s more about the people who live in DC separate from Congress

I wish the listing was still active or available it was kinda hilarious. It started as one 3 bed normal townhouse with basement on a corner lot with nice yard and parking. They took the first house and basically left it and ripped out the parking and yard, connected and added a second 2 level and then extended the upper floor over the other house. I have no idea what the inside looks like as the one unit was newly constructed but it’s got 2 AC units and now window units in all the rooms. It was absolutely constructed this way for the per bedroom situation.

> Something about this subreddit

Two things are at work. First is that DC is probably the closet thing we have to a sub about the federal government, so it attracts many people from elsewhere who use it as a stand in. Second, certain subjects are heavily influenced/astroturfed across reddit. I am a member of a few subs that rarely get posts with 20+ comments, let alone hundreds of comments. That is, unless certain keywords pop up in the title and then look out.

Absolutely outrageous.

I believe they're referencing that by using pepper spray in the station, you're not just spraying the intended target, but everyone else since it's an enclosed space.

So by "don't start none, won't be none", you are, in fact, starting.

There’s a flip by me that now has 9 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and is rented for almost $7,300 on a voucher. The market rent for that area for a townhouse that isn’t super huge would be more around $3,500 maybe. It has been off and on the market at 1.4M listed as an investor dream.

Never mind that Frank Castle expressly hates cops that do this.