Vegetable-Ratio-5857 t1_je8qvqg wrote on March 30, 2023 at 6:10 AM

"Roughly a dozen businesses, organized by the Capitol Riverfront Business Improvement District, will pick up the tab" -- strange that these businesses would do this for a problem that some on here claim doesn't exist...

DC-COVID-TRASH t1_je9dpyc wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:22 AM

It's advertising for dumb suburban "DC is a crime wasteland" folks

medievalmachine t1_je9bthu wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:01 AM

Pro tip: wait for someone to show up before you argue with them. It looks less crazy that way.

Fun facts: crime was down last year, it's up this year. This year is 3 months long. A small sample still.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance

Salami2000 t1_je9egtg wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:30 AM

Crime was slightly down after two years of historic increases. You have to go back almost 20 years to find a worse year than 2021, and 2022 is barely better. The overall trend is that crime is way up, you're just playing games here.

One quarter of the year is not a small sample.

medievalmachine t1_je9gl70 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 11:52 AM

Thanks for summarizing.

Gumburcules t1_jea0mi5 wrote on March 30, 2023 at 2:34 PM

> strange that these businesses would do this for a problem that some on here claim doesn't exist..

Literally nobody is saying that crime doesn't exist...