I literally walk through Congress Heights, Anacostia, and nearby Maryland every day. About 2 hours on week days, 3 hours on the weekend days.
Changes I've seen in SE in the past week.
- Plenty of Sirens, lots of non MPD folks rolling with MPD
- Typical over reaction for MPD - 4 cars hassling a dude at the bus stop, and 4 cars breaking up what might have been two heifers fighting on the metro.
- South Capitol - The dudes selling household chemicals and personal toiletries - they moved their truck so it's a little more off the beaten path. (That Dr Bronner's is 20, 17 on Amazon tho)
- The Auto Zone seems quieter.
- The dope fiends in front of the Eddie Leonard - I haven't seen in days. But it's the same set of cats chilling with a boom box and lawn chairs "doing laundry". Just less of them.
- Them Eastover weed rats always running after sales - I didn't see them today at all. The usual idle bums were "waiting for the bus" over by Giant instead.
- Them old dudes that chill on Marion Barry and 16th - they haven't been there for a week or so, and they're always there.
- Dudes in front of Giant and Safeway - gone.
- That apartment complex by the Giant - usually got something popping off - I haven't been by there lately, I would be surprised if they're hanging out (and I'm low key weirded about by cats bringing portable chairs and blue tooth speakers to hang out)
In SW - it's the same bunch of yuppies and the 10% set asides for low income folks that I normally see. That's the same area that's been getting mobbed by teenagers for the past month or so. I don't know if the teens are there, but my people over there tell me it gets unbearable. I was looking for the Federales, cause they were post up for the inauguration last year. Didn't see any of them.
NE - I don't go to NE outside of the Trader Joes, Alamo Draft House and Union Market.
I know that they La Migra grabbed some of La Raza over at that Home Depot. My personal sense is that NE is more dangerous than SE, but the stats suggest otherwise.
NW - Strangely enough, I don't really go to NW that often either. Restaurant, Drinks, Friends, but really since WFH I have few reasons to be over there.
So in a sense DC is "quieter". A lot less old heads and young gunz outside.
For the most part, both sets of cats are just visual noise, not really dangerous, in my experience.
I did see the Feds have a little staging area for a few days in front of the Dunkin Donuts Construction, but outside of a National Parks Service SUV in an MPD caravan, I haven't really seen Feds over on this sides.
All of this is political theater - and it's really gonna be about white people stepping up to the plate. Cause SE, NE, and Black folks in the "urrea", ain't marching on The White House. It's time for White people to clean their own house.
I got your family with u or u dolo?
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