>preservation' killed Cleveland Park

What are you talking about? Cleveland Park is in the same state it's always been? A quieter residential part of dc with a nice little strip of shops and restaurants. There, Van Nes, and maybe Tenlytown are the only places in the city that haven't been gentrified to death.

Look, police have historically treated certain groups poorly, and weren't responding to calls for service in various neighborhoods WAY before police misconduct was part of the news stream. But whatever you need to tell yourself ig.

It's always wild to me how many uneducated people try to speak on criminal legal system topics.

Or! The community continues to have high murder rates because we continuously choose to use a system that by nature is reactive instead of proactive despite the numerous findings in literature that offer creative proactive approaches and solutions :)

And that doesnt even touch on the fact that to make matters worse, we allow the entity we've chosen for protection to traumatize community members. Trauma, we know, also impacts how folks learn to solve and deal with their problems, and most likely discourages the use of those entities in the rare moments where they could actually be helpful. So no, we do not consistently prioritize #3, perhaps if we did we would actually see homicides decline.

Ya idk why you're getting down voted. I grew up here and went to public school. It didn't matter what quadrant you were in, kids just go wild once they hit Jr high. Someone else said it, it's the time where you learn a lot of rules were fake and start pushing boundaries, plus for city kids it's around the time where you gain a lot of independence even though your brain is still figuring out what are good ideas and what are bad ideas. Freedom + no risk aversion + thinking you know best = messy adolescence doing crazy stuff

Rens Ramen in Wheaton is the most authentic to me (studied abroad in japan). I don't actually care for much of the ramen IN DC, Daikaya did not impress me but I only went when it first opened. I prefer Akira in Rockville or Stamina in Bethesda to it, but again Rens is the best imo. Oh actually they opened an Akira in Adam's Moegan so I would recommend that!

A woman at the DMV told me it's not supposed to work for new vehicles but it might if they programmed it wrong and I could try.

My mom did this when I was in HS, her office also is by Columbus Circle but back then she would take the Chinatown Bus and eventually Bolt. The overall work experience was fine but her home life got chaotic very quickly. She never knew where anything was, did she leave it in NY or was it in DC. She would leave Tuesday morning and come back Thursday night. She doesn't not recommend it if you absolutely love DC, which was her rationale, but it weighs on you. If you're not staying overnight I imagine some of that is mitigated since you always come back home.

Yeah im not sure what the complaints all are.

It usually pisses me off that we clear the roads so quickly.

I lived in Seattle for a little bit and they wouldn't even put salt down.

We used to get snow every year until about 2018 so most of us aren't used to this.

Right I'm sitting here like sir you have the wrong Washington

>People who hate ‘transplants’ are at heart xenophobic

I mean, if people came into your home, pushed out your friends, started erasing the culture, and made little effort to engage with you, then turned around and complained that "no one is REALLY from here" and "well you'll find much more culture in LA or NYC" you'd probably hate them too, but go off I guess.

All of your points are fair but I'm talking about the many comments or posts that are essentially "f*** cars and all people who own them are stupid and bad people." And it particularly bugs me because many of these folks are non natives who ignore the gentrification point I made above.

I'm 100% for better infrastructure and safety but again you don't have to shit on people in a quest for that.

In terms of expenses, if youre in a paid off car, a neighborhood with permit and street parking etc, it's not that expensive to have a car. Particularly when you consider the convenience of it. Time is money, again I'll use groceries as an example, if the same trip is 30 minutes longer because you're walking or taking the bus, that's A LOT of time for people who work two jobs or have kids, or anything. Now insurance has gone up recently and sometimes gas does, but you're really not paying for repairs if your car is reliable. Again, technically a valid argument, but costs aren't just monetary, for folks who spend so much of their time at work or taking care of children the convenience of a car does add up.

Eta: thank you for responding so thoughtfully.

I truly do not understand why this sub hates cars so much. Bike lanes are fine, but a product of gentrification that have only began popping up because the transplants were loud and white enough that the city listened to them and their needs. Meanwhile black residents who have continued to be pushed further and further away from the city center, many of whom have cars were never given the same consideration or benefits. And further, the anti-car crowd is just continuing the exile them from the city through this movement to get rid of all cars.

I've posted in this subreddit a lot and gotten a lot of down votes from people about traffic topics, but the fact is a lot of yall are angry, loud, and entitled.

Yes make the city more safe and accessible to pedestrians and bikers, but there's no need to simultaneously continue make it less accessible to people who don't live downtown or in the city center, and shit on them because their main mode of transportation is an automobile.

Folks with families may not be able to bike or use transit for family outings, they may not want to carry a cart down the street to get groceries for a family of four, they may not want to get everything delivered. Even if its noy a family, some people just want to visit their friends or shops across town without having to take an hour trip on the metro. These activities aren't the devil incarnate that many of yall seem to think they are.

Ah! Small world!

We recently settled on District Winery. A bit pricey but all inclusive and excellent water views.

Lmao I hate it so idk why but this was so funny to me

It's a representation of culture obviously. I learned how to drive IN DC and this was not the norm for me or anyone else I know who learned how to drive here, in the city.

It really is. I have another friend who grew up in VA and one time I was driving her around and she goes "overnight toast you really use your turn signal a lot, huh?" And I stared at her and went "I use it so that cars know where I'm going." She paused and then went "oh yeah that makes sense. Maybe I should use mine more"

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Someone i know's father taught him not to use the turn signal so that people couldn't block him from merging. He's from Ohio.

It's not a DC problem.

They truly are. Uber at least helps you finance a car, so I have a theory that people who have never driven before rush through getting their license, use the Uber financing program and then jump onto the road without any real care for learning how to driver properly.

Yeah I can always tell when inexperienced drivers are on it and it's such a pain. Idk whats up with folks being so entitled they think they move somewhere and not realize they'll have to learn new skills to assimilate. Uber drivers included.

People can drive fast and safe in rock creek because they've practiced and are experienced. There's plenty of things in life you can't just jump head first into and that's fine.

Yeah its interesting seeing some of them get updated and stuff so there's such a mix of what you might see. I can't get enough!

I really like colonial village, all the houses tucked away vaguely into rock creek Park with lots of little hills and whatnot.

But im a city girl who loves cottage core so.

I thought my friend had done an interview after leaving but I couldn't find it. But I was actually thinking less of the actual unethical behavior and more about something I think I remembered him talking about which was just the burn out you get from trying to do good in a system that's so stuck in the mindset they're in. Falling into bad habits as in falling into complacency. If I'm remembering correctly he saw many other offers who started out similar to him and end up just feeling like it wasn't worth it anymore and would let the more traditional bad apples act out, and if the department was doing things they disagreed with they didn't have the energy or motivation to push back anymore. And unfortunately the offices that fall into that are a part of the problem too.

But yes my friend is much more hopeful and motivated in their new position now. It's just unfortunate that it's so hard for good cops to make a difference.

So, I think in general you will find the same complaints about police departments in any major city. Overall MPD is not as drenched in scandal as some other places. That is not to say they do a great job, my previous employment gave me great insight to some of the really problematic aspects of the work.

If its just about the money and you don't care where, I think Seattle PD is actually one of the highest paid in the country. But that may not be true anymore. I do know based on the MPD recruiting emails they pay higher than here.

As others have said if you truly have an interest in making change and doing good, sure. Go for it. However many good natured people lose themselves in law enforcement and are burned out trying to do good and end up falling into bad habits. So do consider what this work really means to you and how far you're willing to go for it. A friend of mind joined with this mindset and ended up becoming frustrated with how little space there was for good meaningful change and ended up leaving to go into policy.