Chinatown and Shaw community members decry surging crime

[SummitCnty]

Hopefully she enjoyed her trip to Dubai last week while VA and Leonsis were hammering out the details of their move.

 

[SummitCnty]

Yup. It absolutely would. What a gigantic f*&#-up.

Chinatown is going to crash hard big time.

When I started working in DC in the mid 90's Chinatown was a sh*thole. Guess I'll get to see it revert back before I retire.

 

[Sunrise]

Hopefully she enjoyed her trip to Dubai last week while VA and Leonsis were hammering out the details of their move.

There's no floor to her failure.

 

[Sunrise]

When I started working in DC in the mid 90's Chinatown was a sh*thole. Guess I'll get to see it revert back before I retire.

As MPD continues to lose officers over the next couple of years, yup.

 

[Sunrise]

DC could lose $25M in yearly tax revenue if Caps, Wizards leave, mayor says

If a deal to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards to Virginia is successful, D.C. taxpayers and businesses would feel the loss. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that losing the teams could cost the nation’s capital as much as $25 million a year in tax revenue.

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If a deal to move the Washington Capitals and Wizards to Virginia is successful, D.C. taxpayers and businesses would feel the loss. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday that losing the teams could cost the nation's capital as much as $25 million a year in tax revenue.

Congratulations.

D.C. Council Member Charles Allen pointed blame toward Bowser's administration, saying in a statement Wednesday it didn't make Capital One Arena a priority.

"Instead of prioritizing the cultural and economic engines already in our backyard, ones that are central to our continued recovery, we’ve only seen greater focus on the shiny object – and the less fruitful deal – for DC’s economy. Today’s move wasn’t inevitable, but avoiding it required far more focus in the past year than it ever received from the Administration," Allen said.

What a clown.

With or without the Capitals and Wizards, Bowser said she's creating a taskforce to look at ways to revitalize the Gallery Place-Chinatown neighborhood.

Yeah, that'll do it. Morons.

Winsome Sears says crime in DC was ‘issue’ in Capitals-Wizards arena move - Washington Examiner

Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears cheered on the historic tentative move of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals teams to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia, while also lamenting that Washington, D.C.'s crime wave and safety concerns were a factor in the location change...

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Virginia Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears cheered on the historic tentative move of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals teams to Potomac Yard in Alexandria, Virginia, while also lamenting that Washington, D.C.'s crime wave and safety concerns were a factor in the location change.

"It's not just about money, but you got to talk about the environment. ... What is the surrounding area of the venue?" Sears said to WMAL on Wednesday.

Yup.

Bowser downplayed the significance of crime in the decision, saying the historical crime problem was a “blip” and that they are continuing to work on reducing crime.

It's just a "blip", folks. They're continuing to work on this.

Virginia attorney general cites crime in D.C. as factor in Capitals, Wizards move

After the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals announced a 2028 relocation to a site in Virginia Wednesday, the state’s attorney general took to social media to call out District leaders over crime in the nation’s capital.

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From Giants to Wizards, crime is affecting sports - Washington Examiner

Monumental Sports CEO Ted Leonsis did not mention rising crime around Washington Capitol One Arena when he announced he was moving the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals across the river to Alexandria, Virginia, but his organization has complained about it in the recent past. This...

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Monumental Sports CEO Ted Leonsis did not mention rising crime around Washington Capitol One Arena when he announced he was moving the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals across the river to Alexandria, Virginia, but his organization has complained about it in the recent past.

This August, Monumental Sports and Entertainment Director of Community Affairs Crispus Gordon told a Chinatown community meeting, “Our revolving door and lack of prosecution has had a negative effect on the community.”

Oh well. People got exactly what they voted for.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Blip blip blip?

Or drip drip drip?

 

[Sunrise]

Blip blip blip?

Or drip drip drip?

More like bang bang bang.

It's pretty incredible that Mayor Bowser would say that $500 Million is her best and final offer. You only use that as a negotiation tactic when you have leverage. She doesn't have any.



Incredible. I’m amazed she found her gate/seat for the plane to Dubai.

 

[Bob A]

"We're very disappointed, but at the same time, we have to look at our assets and we're talking about five acres in the center of the District of Columbia. It's a great asset," Bowser said Wednesday.

Yup. Just like the 14th St corridor was an "asset" for 40 years.

Once you go Thug, you've crapped on the rug.

The stain and the stink sticks around; businesses go away or go broke, no one who has a choice will visit the area. Fortunately, our politicians have no problem with this, they get re-elected promising to fix the problem they created.

 

[Sunrise]

"We're very disappointed, but at the same time, we have to look at our assets and we're talking about five acres in the center of the District of Columbia. It's a great asset," Bowser said Wednesday.

Yup. Just like the 14th St corridor was an "asset" for 40 years.

Once you go Thug, you've crapped on the rug.

The stain and the stink sticks around; businesses go away or go broke, no one who has a choice will visit the area. Fortunately, our politicians have no problem with this, they get re-elected promising to fix the problem they created.

Yup. Exactly right.

 

[Sunrise]

Clyde's management threatened to close Gallery Place location due to crime

In a September email, Clyde's president alleged that the city had failed them, but now says he's been pleased with the city's response to crime since the email.

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In a September email, Clyde's president alleged that the city had failed them, but now says he's been pleased with the city's response to crime since the email.

More like Clyde's President heard from these folks to shut up:

Division of Food | doh

The Division of Food inspects the city's 5,500 +/- food establishments.

dchealth.dc.gov

 

[Sunrise]

DC police chief hopes to continue tackling the rising crime

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Even with homicides higher than they have been in 20 years, D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith said she is committed to bringing down the violence that has plagued the …

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The chief said she has already implemented a gun trafficking unit to help recover illegal firearms with more than 3,000 collected this year and will soon launch a homicide-reduction plan that will feature MPD partnering with other federal and state agencies.

 

[Sunrise]

Security guard opens fire during flash-mob robbery at Chanel in DC

A security guard opened fire during a flash mob-style robbery at a Chanel store in the District on Sunday.

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A security guard opened fire during a flash mob-style robbery at a Chanel store in the District on Sunday.

Police responded to the store at CityCenterDC on I Street NW at around 5:30 p.m., after receiving a call about a robbery involving multiple suspects.

Two suspects were at the door while four others took items from inside, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

......

As the suspects were leaving, an armed security officer hired by the store fired a shot, authorities said.

No hit.

 

[Bob A]

Security guard opens fire during flash-mob robbery at Chanel in DC

A security guard opened fire during a flash mob-style robbery at a Chanel store in the District on Sunday.

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A security guard opened fire during a flash mob-style robbery at a Chanel store in the District on Sunday.

Police responded to the store at CityCenterDC on I Street NW at around 5:30 p.m., after receiving a call about a robbery involving multiple suspects.

Two suspects were at the door while four others took items from inside, according to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

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As the suspects were leaving, an armed security officer hired by the store fired a shot, authorities said.

No hit.

Guard will probably face charges. Can't be whacking the voter base.

Anyway, hard to articulate a threat from someone running away.

 

[Sunrise]

Guard will probably face charges. Can't be whacking the voter base.

Anyway, hard to articulate a threat from someone running away.

Yup. Here's what I'm trying to figure out....

Police said one of those suspects was armed with a fire extinguisher and used it as a weapon, deploying the liquid inside as a distraction.

The article doesn't mention any other weapons.

And as you said, the guard fired a shot as the criminals were leaving.... and apparently didn't hit $h!t.

Was the guard not paying enough attention to draw/fire when they were presenting an actual physical threat in the store, assuming that case could even be made?

None of this makes any sense.

 

[Ellis Gordon]

A very good read.

Washington Examiner

A monumental failure of leadership in DC

Opinion by Washington Examiner

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser has spent over $5 million since 2020 building and maintaining Black Lives Matter Plaza, three blocks of 16th Street leading down to the North Portico of the White House. This costly political statement of support for a fraudulent organization has been made while the mayor's real job of running the nation's capital has been neglected. Carjackings and murder have skyrocketed on her watch.

The cost of Bowser’s misplaced priorities was underlined when the owner of the NHL's Capitals and NBA's Wizards announced that he would leave Washington and take his teams to neighboring Virginia.

But her performance after hearing the news was not encouraging.

While making an attempt to belittle the transportation options for the new Potomac Yards development, which is serviced by the Yellow and Blue Metro lines, Bowser falsely claimed that the teams’ current Metro station, Gallery Place, was serviced by “every line.” In fact, Gallery Place only has the Red, Yellow, and Green lines. The Silver, Blue, and Orange lines do not service the station. One should be able to assume that the woman who has been serving as mayor for the past eight years would have a firmer grasp on her city’s premier transportation system. But no.

Not wanting to touch on a controversial topic, Ted Leonsis himself has not said publicly that rising crime around Washington's Capital One Arena is a reason he is looking to move his teams elsewhere. But at a town hall meeting in August, one of his organization's managers did just that. “Our revolving door and lack of prosecution has had a negative effect on the community,” Crispus Gordon, Monumental Sports and Entertainment's government relations director, told city leaders. He went on to describe how after one Monumental Sports employee was assaulted in broad daylight, the perpetrator was arrested but was then released shortly thereafter.

If Washington is unwilling to prosecute criminals who prey on its workers, why would any company stay in the city?

That is why the Capitals and Wizards leaving Washington is more than just a sports story. The complex around Capital One Arena used to have a movie theater, a bowling alley, and many bars and restaurants. Now, three years after COVID-19, the summer of BLM riots, and Bowser's subsequent decision to defund the police, the movie theater is gone, so is the bowling alley, and many storefronts are bare.

The hollowing out of the capital's business community is not limited to that area, Chinatown. Vacancy rates across the city are rising as more and more businesses conclude that the cost of dealing with attempted theft and other daily inconveniences and outrages just isn’t worth it.

The first thing Bowser should do to stop the bleeding is rip up Black Lives Matter Plaza and recommit the city to arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating people who break the law, regardless of their skin color. No one suffers more from lawlessness than low-income racial minority communities. Not only are they hit by the loss of jobs as businesses flee Washington, but the criminals the police release most often live in these communities, and their neighbors are their first victims.

President Joe Biden could do his part by forcing federal government employees to return to their offices. The more people downtown, the more dining, shopping, and entertainment people will do in the city.

Washington still has Nationals baseball and the Mystics WNBA team, and it could land the Commanders, too. There is even still time to get the Capitals and Wizards back. But it is going to take far more than money to turn the tide. District leaders are going to have to start prioritizing law and order over misguided social justice. If they don't, more businesses will leave.

 

[Sunrise]

The first thing Bowser should do to stop the bleeding is rip up Black Lives Matter Plaza and recommit the city to arresting, prosecuting, and incarcerating people who break the law, regardless of their skin color. No one suffers more from lawlessness than low-income racial minority communities. Not only are they hit by the loss of jobs as businesses flee Washington, but the criminals the police release most often live in these communities, and their neighbors are their first victims.

Well written but never going to happen. It doesn't matter how bad the crime gets. They also don't care about what happens to minority communities. They're fine with the rampant crime there as long as they're in power.

 

[Bob A]

I have to take issue with only one sentence from the Examiner piece:

"Not only are they hit by the loss of jobs as businesses flee Washington, but the criminals the police release most often live in these communities, and their neighbors are their first victims."

Mis-attributing these releases to the police is wrong. This is totally on the Court, with the encouragement of the DC political class.

 

[Sunrise]

I have to take issue with only one sentence from the Examiner piece:

"Not only are they hit by the loss of jobs as businesses flee Washington, but the criminals the police release most often live in these communities, and their neighbors are their first victims."

Mis-attributing these releases to the police is wrong. This is totally on the Court, with the encouragement of the DC political class.

Truth.

 

[Sunrise]

Clyde's president applauds city for crime improvements near Capital One Arena, but says losing Caps/Wizards could paint bleak future

The DC government is trying to calm business concerns by working on long term plan to re-imagine area around arena before teams leave

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[Sunrise]

DC Will Be Fine If the Caps and Wizards Move Out of Capital One Arena- Washingtonian

Moving the NHL and NBA teams out of Gallery Place would present opportunities, say real estate experts.

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Washingtonian with major cope here.