Trump 2.0

[pgs]

I assumed as much. I was only familiar with Georgetown from books & movies, but it sounds quite affluent, so I assumed the other areas were similar, & thus my question. This is all optics then? Put the soldiers or whatever around federal buildings & monuments for tourist photo ops and keep them away from the DC equivalent of Heritage or North Central as we would relate to them?

Pretty much , but if they could stop or slow the crime in those areas it is still a winning proposition.

 

[petros]

I assumed as much. I was only familiar with Georgetown from books & movies, but it sounds quite affluent, so I assumed the other areas were similar, & thus my question. This is all optics then? Put the soldiers or whatever around federal buildings & monuments for tourist photo ops and keep them away from the DC equivalent of Heritage or North Central as we would relate to them?

I wouldn't mind the NG in North Central.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I assumed as much. I was only familiar with Georgetown from books & movies, but it sounds quite affluent, so I assumed the other areas were similar, & thus my question. This is all optics then? Put the soldiers or whatever around federal buildings & monuments for tourist photo ops and keep them away from the DC equivalent of Heritage or North Central as we would relate to them?

Georgetown, Maryland preceded the designation of the District of Columbia. It is, amongst other things, the site of Georgetown University, an elite Jesuit private university whose law school (oddly not in Georgetown at all, but in a less-nice part of the city) made the tragic mistake of granting Yours Truly a degree.

Washington, DC is divided into unequal "quarters," focussed on the Capitol. Southeast and to a lesser extent Northeast are the "bad" parts of town. Northwest is primarily residential, and Southwest is the smallest quarter, mostly office buildings, both private and government.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Pretty much , but if they could stop or slow the crime in those areas it is still a winning proposition.

Yes, it could save us from the horrific 30-year low in violent crime!

 

[petros]

Yes, it could save us from the horrific 30-year low in violent crime!

30 years ago... Marion Barry and the Crackcapades?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

30 years ago... Marion Barry and the Crackcapades?

What does that have to do with the violent crime rate in DC? Or are you just trotting out the one thing you remember about it?

 

[petros]

What does that have to do with the violent crime rate in DC? Or are you just trotting out the one thing you remember about it?

It was pretty fucked up 30 years ago. Murder capital of the US.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

It was pretty fucked up 30 years ago. Murder capital of the US.

Yep. New Orleans, Richmond, and St. Louis had higher homicide rates in 1995, but Washington is the capital.

 

[petros]

Yep. New Orleans, Richmond, and St. Louis had higher homicide rates in 1995, but Washington is the capital.

By how much? Leaps and bounds?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

By how much? Leaps and bounds?

Scads and shitloads. But that's OK, you can repeat whatever bullshit you feel like. Not like anybody out on the wide Saskatchewan prai-rie's gonna check you on it.

 

[petros]

Scads and shitloads. But that's OK, you can repeat whatever bullshit you feel like. Not like anybody out on the wide Saskatchewan prai-rie's gonna check you on it.

Which large cities have the highest homicide rates?

The top five homicide rates among large population centers 1995 — those with more than a million residents — were the cities of:

Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
St. Louis, Missouri (St. Louis city)
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore city)
Washington, DC, (District of Columbia, DC)
Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County).

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Which large cities have the highest homicide rates?

The top five homicide rates among large population centers 1995 — those with more than a million residents — were the cities of:

Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
St. Louis, Missouri (St. Louis city)
Baltimore, Maryland (Baltimore city)
Washington, DC, (District of Columbia, DC)
Birmingham, Alabama (Jefferson County).

Yep, so Washington wasn't the "murder capital" or whateverthefuck clever tag you wanna hang on it, unless you want to come up with some stupid conflation of it being the capital and it having murders.

Thanks for admitting it.

 

[petros]

Yep, so Washington wasn't the "murder capital" or whateverthefuck clever tag you wanna hang on it, unless you want to come up with some stupid conflation of it being the capital and it having murders.

Thanks for admitting it.

Oooo #2 is such a misnomer. Should we try 30ish years?