“Well it depends.
Do the residents want it? They’re the ones living there.”

What the fuck? What resident wants to be cordoned off and required to provide their identification or be sent away from their neighborhood upon threat of arrest?

‘I’m sorry, officer, I had no idea that it was ‘nazi-regime’ day because that executive order of yours hadn’t come down yet! Unfortunately, I was just walking up the street to get the Sunday paper and a gallon of milk before I went to church. – Yes, I see. – You’re so right: ‘Well, thank goodness I am white.’ Have a great day.”

I don’t know much, I’ll give you that, but I do know that D.C.’s police force, like most of America, applies its laws in a pretty openly discriminatory manner. Who do you think this is most likely to affect? My guess is undocumented immigrants and non-white citizens.

And personally, even if that’s not the case, the government should not be using the police to enforce social mores or freedom of association. Fuck that. What’s next, requiring me to only associate with jerks in uniforms? Or maybe the white middle class kids can’t play with the lower-class ones anymore, right? Because cordoning off and isolating by the government is “acceptable” -Right?

Public safety is undefined. Investigation of 8 murders is not. End of story.

You should be embarrassed, paperdreamer.

And for the record, I didnt say it was just Anacostia, I said there are bad neighborhooods mixed in, but DC STILL, isnt as bad as some would like to think or portray it to be.

I know you are one of those “anti police anti establishment” people from reading your blogs and fighting the powers that be.

DC HAS tried to address the issues that cause violence, they tried to ban guns in the city and that got shot down and people were outraged.

Yes, this is a short term solution to what has and always be a long term problem, but the root of the problem lies with the parents and the values these kids in the inner DC area are holding dear.