Young People on Fenty’s rejected crime bill: “the measures wouldn’t have addressed the root causes of why youths are drawn into gangs or crews.”
“A lot of times, you’re scared for your safety and you don’t know if someone’s going to jump you,” said Deangelo Edwards, 18, a junior advocate for the Alliance of Concerned Men’s Safe Streets Initiative who grew up at the notorious Seventh and O streets NW, an area that has long been a trouble spot for crime. “So there’s nothing else to do besides join a gang.”
Following a spate of shootings in Columbia Heights, residents are worried. Read a first-hand account of a blogger who was in the Metro station when Thursday’s shooting occurred at Urban Bohemian.
Speaking of blogs, here’s one that wants to know Who Murdered Robert Wone?
PG County — a man was shot to death, and police say circumstances seem to point in the direction of self-defense.
Poor book-keeping with MPD.
When your apartment is busted into because someone on the SWAT team confused apartment 201 with 202, a “couple of movie passes” seems somewhat inadequate.
