What a sight it was to watch our neighbors kicking themselves after having paid $300 to $450K for condos just across the street from our house. We were able to witness this from our front porch because our disillusioned neighbors were describing events of the evening to the police on our street. Unfortunately, the events were sad;
“The violence began at 11:10 p.m. Thursday when the 17-year-old was shot at 14th and Chapin streets NW, police said. The youth, identified as Norman Jenkins of the 2300 block of 15th Street NW, was shot several times when he refused someone's order to remove his ski mask.”
-see washingtonpost.com for the full story
“The violence” this Post writer is refering to involves 4 unrelated killings late Thursday/early Friday within 6 hours of eachother. Ours was the first of the evening followed by a shooting between two guys smoking PCP in NE, and two killings in SE.
I am quite aware of my neighborhood's situation with crime and gentrification, but my question to the disillusioned is this: If you don't smoke PCP, and you scoff at living in SE, why would you pay to live here? And even if you didn't do your research before shelling out that kind of money, and you didn't know that 14th and Chapin could be catagorized with such other crime scenarios, wouldn't you have at least noticed that you can smell urine on the street in the morning?
Posted by Georgi at December 3, 2005 07:30 PMYeah, I can't say I feel really sorry for the extra-clever folks who spent money that way. They are all waiting for the day that areas "in transition" become the new fashionable part of the city,but what do you have to endure and how much will you have to witness while waiting for it? It all just adds up to two things in my mind: greed and stupidity, in equal measures.
Posted by: Betty at December 4, 2005 07:47 AM