14thandYou

And poop-throwing hobos....

Ba-da-BUM...

Honestly, that could look a lot worse....

I thought the crackhead left the diaper behind?...

Strange, naked man, thy name is Four Loko....

I don't have enough familiarity with other cities and jurisdictions to comment meaningfully on them, but what I can say about DC is that the city has en exceptionally high rate of institutional, multi...

I never said a high violent crime rate wasn't a problem--where on earth did you get idea? What I *did* say, and maintain, is that comparing city-to-city crime statistics doesn't really provide any us...

"Sortof true, but I'd argue the sheer number of neighborhoods and blocks in DC that are dangerous is way more than in many cities." Hmmm, I dunno about that. I haven't done any detailed research on ...

Well, Ward 7 and 8's unemployment rates were about half of what they currently are. Point taken though, that those places have never been bastions of economic success....

I think there is a ton of truth in this....

I think if you hold out that city boundary-to-city boundary comparisons have value, then the same arguments could be made regarding MSA to MSA. After all, there are a number of cities--and DC is amon...

The DC region as a whole is actually one of the safer metropolitan regions in the country, for whatever that's worth. But, again, I would question the usefulness of that data for the same reasons I a...

Who is flipping out? All I said was that I question the usefulness of city-wide crime statistics or comparisons. An assault in NYC may be the same as an assault in DC, but so what? What interests m...

Reliable in what sense? I don't think people are questioning the accurcacy of the numbers so much as their application. What is the purpose behind looking at city-wide crime statistics and drawing a...

I think it's a bit of both. DC's crime on the whole is greater than most major U.S. cities. Part of that is because our really crappy neighborhoods are worse than most other city's really crappy nei...