@Tail Some neighborhoods have always been bad. There was one I lived in a few years ago where I used to lie down behind the building to have a joint because it was so constant. But there's definitely been an uptick, it's odd bc DC has been gentrifying but there are weird lines being straddled
@luxsit Fuck's sake. Lots of people have drawn lots of different lines in the sand where there previously weren't any pre Covid/Trump pandemic. Domestic violence skyrockets during lockdowns and the people with little to no resources are pressed to believe there aren't resources to go around.
Good thing we all get to have guns for no reason.
@Tail That
example wasn't so much domestic violence as just street violence, but that too. And it's across many areas in the US.
Not to mention d's admin set us up for disaster re: COVID :/
@luxsit Street violence still stays home with whoever is there in a lockdown, was my thinking. We've been put in a bad way all around by all of our institutions and the effects are gonna ripple through generations
Growing up here, we had The Bad Neighborhood and that was it. Over the years it slowly grew and grew, then a heroin epidemic sprouted and the entire city is the bad side of town.
@Tail The street violence here has stayed in certain neighborhoods but gone up in some others.
Here it's like, it can vary block by block. I remember some years ago I celebrated my birthday at a nightclub with some friends. Drinks were had and some got confused and wandered off just a block and a half away. Got pretty badly mugged, one got a shin fracture from being kicked with a steeltoe. You just gotta be aware and know what you're doing you know?
When did the growth in heron start there?
@luxsit oh damn! I can't imagine getting mugged. Idk about the heroin, at least a decade? Always been a pleasant, peaceful meth town, but now heroin? Used to be the worst thing you had to worry about at night was.. idk, me.
When I moved to long beach I kind of experienced that kind of neighborhood. I was told to never go walk down the street in one direction but that the other is totally safe.
I didn't question why.
@Tail Good idea.