I was shopping there minutes before it happened. Not really. I was there today . Event was yesterday

Shit, I live like next door to there. I had no idea. People there are great, I hope they’re okay

Usually there aren’t a ton of the really aggressive homeless/tweakers around there, I wonder if it was some random or something more sophisticated

Correction: This was yesterday, Jan 21st. You can see it in the link date

It was actually yesterday. Don't think it was homeless, but who knows, because they were, I think, robbing food .

Aggressive, yes.

Time to move out of dc imo

Byeeee

Out of NE/SE, maybe but NW is not so bad IMO

Meanwhile DC council has taken the new criminal code and made it so the folks who are commiting these crimes able to continue to do so. But let's all go and riot in ward 5

Pls. don't give them any ideas. NW is fine as is.

>made it so the folks who are commiting these crimes able to continue to do so.

Can you cite the specific code provision? I'd be interested in seeing how this works because I'm having trouble finding the provision in the bill that won't go into effect for 3 years that does this for robberies

There isn’t a cite, but they’d much rather repeat anti-reform talking points like a juvenile parrot so they won’t correct their behavior

Enjoy getting robbed by the same people over and over again.

Go back to silver spring

That’s what happened to old DC. Everyone with money moved out, leaving it a hellhole for decades.

Be careful what you wish for.

I personally voted for the "armed robbery abolitionist" party. I'd also like you to actually cite the provision that was changed to make this possible.

Oh, old DC had a movement to reform it's criminal justice system based on a modern a understanding of criminology? All while most of old DC was not administered by DC residents.

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Everyone with money moved out? Then where's the corresponding rent decrease? Ask anybody who grew up in DC before the 90s and they'll tell you it was much less expensive.

Yeah, That passage you quoted has at least two lies in it. I wish people would read the bill before believing every talking point about it.

They can’t, because the claim is false.

That’s what I said.

Oh wow! I walk past this Streets on my way to the gym and was going to visit after my workout yesterday afternoon, but decided to wait and go to Harris Teeter on Kalorama.

all the recent publicized crimes is occurring under the current criminal code, not the one that hasn't been signed yet.

Current criminal codes mean nothing if the AG refuses to prosecute. We also had these criminal codes from 2010-2018 which was the safest period in decades for dc. Now AG won’t prosecute and shootings plus carjackings are up exponentially.

Ideally the rents move people like you out soon

It seems like organized theft rings. The post says nearly every other business on that street was robbed in the last 2 days.

I think most businesses in DC have been robbed at least once in the last year. Property crime isn't really a priority for judges/prosecutors here, I'm sure most of the charges get thrown out or reduced to something menial, if the criminals even get caught.

Which is why this particular criminal was pretty dumb. Assaulting people will get you a bit more heat.

It gives much more power to the already very lenient judges. The RCCA allows for/changes:

• Penalties for many offenses significantly reduced, from robbery/burglary to carjacking and illegal possession of handgun. Even sexual assault and rape have been reduced.

• Bill removes mandatory minimums in the few categories that still hand them, allowing judges to continue issuing "slap-on-the-wrist" penalties, even for repeat offenders.

• The right to petition the judge to reduce a sentence has been expanded to all defendants. Currently it is limited to those who committed a crime before they turned 25. Many judges grant these petitions.

• Right to request a jury trial expanded to nearly all offenses. This will further overburden the already overburdened court system.

Among other changes allowing for repeat offenders to more easily continue availing themselves to the community. You can read the RCCA yourself if you have questions: https://legiscan.com/DC/text/B24-0416/id/2616873/Washington_D_C_-2021-B24-0416-Enrolled.pdf

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seems like the new code is a boogeyman when people should be complaining about lack of prosecution and police work. the new code could raise mandatory minimums and it wouldn't change anything in the environment you're describing.

Here's an article with an actual analysis of what's in the bill, as opposed to just fearmongering about the fact that the bill changes the structure of sentencing so that sentences are calculated differently. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/washington-dc-crime-reform-sentencing-fox-news.html

Found the little bitch

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Did you read the part about sentence stacking, which is currently not permissible? Or the part about the sentencing guidelines, which mean that the sentences being changed are sentences that no one is actually receiving under current law?

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That's a rather charitable way of describing white flight and systemic disinvestment.

Because the city turned toxic. Don't blame people for institutional problems.

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/discriminatory-housing-practices-in-the-district-a-brief-history/

I highly encourage you to read this. "The city turning toxic" is not the reason white residents left. Massive subsidies for suburban and segregated development (GI Bill, urban freeways, racial covenants) and resistance to desegregation in schools were the primary factors white residents left. The pattern of large sections of the tax base fleeing to the suburbs repeated itself all over which is why most American cities were faced with crippling budget shortfalls and racially motivated disinvestment in the 70s and 80s.

Gotta love that urban experience!!!

Housing got a lot cheaper when whites fled the city.

Maybe you haven't heard of the 1968 riots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Washington,_D.C.,_riots

Cry about it you broke bitch 😂

You’re soft and you aint even got bread. Real money doesn’t talk like that fool. Fat, lying, lazy ass lmao