I think I'm still willing to say that trends will even out as the year progresses and we'll end up with a lower number of homicides than 2022 (because right now we're talking about an increase from 25 to 35), but I would completely agree that remote learning meant a lot of at-risk kids got lost through the cracks and that we're going to be seeing a lot of trouble coming out of them as a result. That remains my biggest problem with a lot of cities' covid policies, and it's also unfortunately a situation where conservatives got to the right solution of opening schools earlier for all of the wrong reasons.

And I'm not sure how you can try and claim that DC is so wildly dangerous when Baltimore is literally an hour away.

This is a nationwide trend, and yet some of y'all are so goddamned intent on trying to point the finger at any little thing that local government does when the reality is far more complicated.

I'd imagine that by the end of the year, nationwide trends will still keep us barely in the top 20. But sure, let's pretend two months is predictive.

"Up 40%" when we're not even two months into the year is a wildly disingenuous thing to say in a headline, but crime post trolls will eat it up.

It's more in how you'll see square footage allocated. There's always going to be a few extra tables next to a dance floor, and the kitchen is likely to stay open longer. They're mostly subtle things that you wouldn't think about, but it does mean that a small bar like Showtime couldn't work in VA.

Rent control units are already significantly below market rate. This doesn't change that.

Describing cyclical moving patterns primarily due to the cost of housing running up against perceived needs for starting as family as "fleeing" is... unique.

Like, I can't say that I've ever seen anyone crossing the 14th Street Bridge with everything they've ever owned strapped to their car and driving like they're trying to outrun some natural disaster. Just normal insane driving.

Does your HOA forbid paragraphs?

Yeah, like... this is just a big scary number without the context of inflation and that other rents have gone up way higher. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to be aghast at this.

Renter's rights in general are pretty good compared to the surrounding jurisdictions.

Lol, starting the week off with crime post troll bullshit, huh?

I think this is just showing how we should expect service fees that don't go to the waitstaff have an effect on the experience: negatively. I've been to a few places that have the service charge that explicitly calls it out as going wholly to the staff and I haven't seen a difference between those and ones that don't have a service fee where I'd be expected to tip normally.

Of course, this whole sorting process is only going to become more clusterfucked and it's the public and the service employees at these shitty spots that will suffer.

Sorry, I must have missed that part of the Constitution that said "ACSHULLY ur crime rate has to be super low to be a state." Can you point me to that Article and Section?

Additionally, your (shitty) Google search shows that New Mexico and Louisiana are around 6400 annual crimes per capita. What is the threshold when states have their statehood called into question? Is it 6500? Is it 7000? I'm curious when they should start being worried based off of your logic.

Is this a trick question?

TIL thinking that crime rate is not a good reason for not getting statehood means I'm ACSHULLY "so happy with the current crime rate here."

Let's be honest: one of us is a lot happier about the crime rate here because it lets them troll. And it sure as shit ain't me.

I think that no state is 100% urban area and so the comparisons to states don't work very well.

Again. Your use of stats is bad and you should feel bad.

Like I said: only if you use stats like a dummy.

Meanwhile, back in reality, no one is claiming that Memphis doesn't deserve congressional representation just because it's a much more "crime-ridden" city than DC.

Lol, DC's crime rate barely puts it in the top 20. Unless you're going to do that stupid nonsense of comparing 100% urban areas to large swathes of land that have a variety of density patterns.

Nah, crime post trolls just won't accept anything less than stating that DC is going to hell in a handbasket, facts be damned.

That's my secret, Cap. I'm always drinking.

Yeah, I legit couldn't tell if they were trolling or not when they described Wonderland as a hidden gem, or if they just don't get uptown much.

There's only a few that work, period. I think they're the new dark-colored ones put in by NPS last year or so.

I always felt like they treated DC as occupied territory when Trump was in office, but same vibes I guess.

The political appointees often don't leave anymore, either. Over the last 30 years or so, they just rotate out to a think-tank/lobbying position until the political party they align with comes back into power.