I was once shoved hard by someone trying to enter my building, hard enough that I developed a bruise on my breastbone that lasted two weeks. After that nothing else feels like harm.

Unless the GOP takes the Senate and Presidency next year, there isn't going to be a control board. The Dems were absolutely hypocrites in regards to the criminal code reform, but they aren't going to go all in on a complete take over of the DC city government.

Fear mongering

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This whole hearing was revolting. Just Republican grandstanding, nothing serious, as per usual.

> No harm ultimately, but it was one of the more intimidating experiences I’ve had with a homeless person.

Being intimidated in public is harm.

Such an insanely biased comment lmao

Agree! Dulles is actually a reasonable option for me for the first time since I moved to DC.

A different committee oversees DOJ/USAO, this was the committee with oversight over DC. A joint hearing would have made sense.

Agree it seemed to be a waste of time. It seems they are going to hold more. Anyone here live in DC at the lead up to the control board? Feels kind of where this may head.

I’m so excited to run this race! Looking like beautiful weather on Sunday too!

Most of the trains actually have very good airflow. Don't think I sweated once...

Visible deterrent. Makes people move somewhere else

There’s plenty of mandatory overtime, forced doubles, and backfill going on in high-crime areas on the taxpayer’s dime and almost every summer many districts start canceling days off in the summer. There’s no shortage of government time. With the amount of cancelled days off and forced overtime many people work the equivalent of thirteen to fifteen months a year. The difference between this and a BID slot is that department overtime is on the taxpayers dime and you can be compelled to do it while BID overtime (and other details like the Nats) are voluntary and it’s privately funded. If you choose to do on your time it’s the officers decision.

Also- nobody is making $100 an hour- usually BID slots are straight time (ie whatever your normal wage is) or time and a half for a few hours a night. Most BID overtime guys aren’t looking to make lockups- they’re there for visibility and deterrence and if nothing pops off while they’re there than they’ve done their job and the BID is happy. If there is an arrest (likely Simple Assault, Unlawful Entry, theft, etc.) most never go to trial so court pay never happens. Besides, almost nobody loves Court here- it’s often on your day off or not your shift, and parking sucks compared to suburban court houses.

I mean this impacts people taking the bus, too, which I thought this subreddit loves? I can’t keep up with the narrative, I guess. Do we like increasing convenience of mass transit, or don’t we?

Go into a store people

Yep.

Whoa! Did it work?

You, sir are correct! George Preston Marshall was friends with Conrad Hilton.

When Hilton built his new hotel in Washington, he had the ballroom, which was going to be the largest in the city, made in the shape of a football, so Marshall would move his annual Grid Iron dinner from the Shorham.

Thanks for summarizing.

It's shaped like a football - something to do with the Washington Football Team

I don’t remember ever hearing an inspiration for the shape in all the years I’ve had events there, so I’m curious to see what answer you are looking for.

(I’ve been at the POV of this photo many times.)

No, but it is a very good theatrical space.

It’s a squashed oval shape. Done to maximize floor space with no pillars blocking sight to the stage.

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.

Cops bad. Innocent criminals good.