Budweiser was bought by a Belgian brewer a few years back (along with a TON of other American breweries). Does that count?

I've never heard a case where they don't take a report in violent crime. I'm sure it happens, but it's rare.

The prosecution has nothing to do with crime stats. It's crimes recorded, not crimes successfully prosecuted.

It's not broken up by felonies/misdemeanors or severity of the crime. It's broken up by violent/property crimes and more specifically things like murder, assault, theft. Violent crime as a whole is down 7% YOY.

You can believe whatever you want. That doesn't make it true.

The article you shared from earlier in 2022 is literally based on MPD stats. So they're BS when you don't like them but they're a sure thing when you do? Where would you like to pull crime stats from? Your ass?

If you want to argue that it feels like crime is up then I might agree with you. But based on the stats, it's down.

Pretty standard for holiday travel. The garages sell out early. Probably not helping that part of one of the garages is being used for short term parking due to construction in the cell phone lot.

Don't know what you have against taxi/rideshare/Metro but it's a much easier option. Drops you literally at the terminal.

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/district-crime-data-glance?december_2022

Yes it is.

Who is silencing you besides yourself? You deleted your own post when you got comments that didn't validate your beliefs. A debate where both sides agree is petty boring and unhelpful.

I'm sorry you don't agree, but the stats don't lie. Aside from the spike during covid, crime has gone nowhere but down since the 90s. And the stats this year indicate we're back on that trend despite the covid detour.

As they say on the right "facts don't care about your feelings"!

Crime is down from 10 years ago... So not sure how it's out of control if you're comparing it to that. It's even down from last year according to the latest stats.

And city services are actually quite good here for the taxes we pay imo. Fantastic libraries and public rec centers. Relatively well kept bike lanes, sidewalks, and roads. DDOT in general is good. Parks. Metrobus and Metrorail, despite all their problems are very useable. Circulator busses. The list goes on. Could it be better? Of course. Does it make me want to move to a city in a Red state? Absolutely not lol. I grew up in Kansas City, MO. The only thing I miss from there is BBQ and sports teams.

$200-300/mo is the going rate for off street parking. What's more crazy is that on street parking is as cheap as it is. It's heavily subsidized and takes up a ton of valuable real estate.

Pretty much all the new walkable and high density developments like NoMA, Navy Yard, etc are not eligible for RPP. The math simply doesn't work to have high rises park their hundreds of cars in the 15 or less curb spots surrounding the building. Not to mention, having residents cars sitting curbside is horrible for creating a walkable business friendly neighborhood. If they want parking, needs to be underground. And most buildings only have parking for 1/3 of residents as that's all that's required by the city.

If you want to keep your car AND live downtown, you'll have to start paying the true cost of storing it in a city. Over a 3rd of DC residents get by car free just fine. And I would guess around 50%+ pay the monthly rate to store their car for no reason or to use it once a month or so.

I mean, auto sales and real estate can be pretty shady sectors of business sometimes. So it's probably not crazy to call them that. Real estate agents and banks pretty much single-handedly caused the 2008 financial crisis. And car salesman are the reason the average US car payment is $525-700/mo while the US average salary is $64k with a median of $44k.

The court so far has actually said the opposite. They "couldn't see any reason that it was reasonable to fire rounds at a fleeing vehicle". Sounds like the presiding judge wants the book thrown at him.

>malignant parasites harming our society

Idk. I've interacted with plenty of car salesmen and real estate agents that fit that bill.

"I can roll $20k of negative equity into a new car you can't afford for a 40% APR and a 10 year term today!"

I'm glad this worked out in your favor, I really am. But size doesn't mean a thing when the guy pulls a gun.

Porch pirates are infuriating, but property theft isn't worth your life.

Everytime us "crazy radical cyclists" try to say stuff like this with actual numbers, data, and studies to back it up, we get told off about how we don't know anything and just want cars and drivers to burn.

There's a field of study called urban planning and traffic engineering. It's real science, and shocker, it works in practice. Counterintuitively, reducing lanes and reducing lane width in addition to making other modes of transport more hospitable actually improves traffic in most cases.

Snark and pent up frustration aside, glad to have you on our side OP. Now continue down the rabbit hole of an urban planning and city design youtube channel like "Not Just Bikes" and take the orange pill. You'll be a full blown advocate in a matter of weeks.

I would love to be proven wrong, I really would. But accomplishing what you said above may as well be an act of God. It's never going to happen, at least not in my lifetime. Corruption is too ingrained in our system at all levels of government for meaningful change.

Best of luck with that. That's been a real success so far in American history. I live in the real world so I think I'll stick to doing what I can to protect my stuff myself for now.

I would agree, but that's the reality we live in. So you can either accept that and live your life in a way that defends against it, or you can complain on the internet every time your stuff gets stolen because you left your valuables visible in an unattended public area.

I'm going to go with the realist approach and hide and protect my belongings.

Recently played the remaster of MW2. The DC Russian invasion mission hits a little closer to home than it did playing when I was younger. Especially the part fighting through the residential areas.

You're not in traffic, you are traffic.

Most large apartments like Buzzoto don't give itemized readouts. You don't pay DC Water directly. Buzzoto gets one big bill for the whole building and each resident pays a portion of it through a submetering contractor like conservice (their name is quite fitting based on my interactions with them!). How that bill is divided is up to them.

We lived in a building managed by Kettler for a while. Apparently there was some kind of mixup in estimated billing vs actual readings and the building owed DC Water a large backpay of money. That debt got evenly divided to current residents whether you lived there during the high usage period or not.

It's not that the age causes lead to get worse, it's that the age can be an indicator as to whether lead pipes are a possibility.

My wife, FIL, and MIL have all gotten appointments within a month or so of applying. They checked late at night and early in the morning regularly and there was always a handful of cancellations that popped up within a week or so of looking. 2 of them went to Dulles, other went to BWI.

I definitely think that accelerated it, but I still think the root of the problem is there being zero consequences for your actions when in control of a 3 ton metal weapon.

I don't think covid has much to do with it. I think not enforcing a single traffic violation for a decade probably does though.

We finally have a rail connection to our major international airport, I'll take it.