If it had been 5 White/non-Black cops arrested, I think it would have been very bad.

But given that it was 5 Black cops who got arrested, I expect that fact to lessen the tension a lot. There's an implied notion that after a decade of many highly publicized cases of police brutality, cops (especially Black men who are cops) should know better. Kudos to the family of the victim and their lawyer calling for calm as well. There's going to be more of a police brutality angle to this one than a race one.

I hope to read more about the service history of these cops. Most likely they all exhibited warning signs in their records.

Policing has a tendency to attract bullies and power-trippers. Given the police officer shortage throughout this country, it is easier for people of bad dispositions to become police officers. Police departments need to be empowered to remove people of poor disposition and tendencies towards authoritarianism from their ranks. Policing is a service, not an excuse to be a jack-booted thug of the state.

I like living in DC and have only witnessed a very small smattering of the bad things people complain about all the time here.

Sometimes I feel like since DC attracts a lot of high strung, high achieving types, you see a lot of more people from that crowd posting about every single little thing that they see wrong with the city.

It's a city. No city is perfect. DC is better than most other cities in terms of quality of life and livability. The mass transit is decent. Of course can things be better and can we do better? Yes. But that's utopia. There will be compromises.

If you don't like it here, you can always go to a place that suits you better. I'd imagine most people on this subreddit are well-educated and are in skilled professions, so to do that isn't much of a stretch for many here.

The DC sub is very schizophrenic. I've seen people put down posts highlighting the "high crime" but other people being hysterical about it. My theory on the sub's general schizophrenia is because DC attracts transplants from all the country (especially the high strung, high achiever types), it's also bound to attract extreme pearl-clutching types who grew up in the super safe urbane suburbs who never had to deal with the problems of living in a big city (the occasional shooting, package theft, sexual harassment, homeless encampments). When these things happen, it just shocks them to posting hyperbole all over the place at every single little wrong thing they see with the city.

God forbid they even think about moving to a place like Baltimore.

HipCityVeg is a chain based out of Pennsylvania but they have two locations in DC. Pretty sure they use Impossible Foods/Beyond Meat fake meat but the stuff is pretty good.

Haven't had Ghostburger in over a year but would get orders to deliver from there all the time while delivering for Uber Eats and DoorDash. It is pretty good... once in a while. That said, for nearly $16 when you consider tax and tip... it's not the best value burger IMO.

And it doesn't help that we give a driver's license to basically anyone. Also some roads are hard to navigate in this country.

I don't think the frustration is against cars generally. It's the crappy car-first infrastructure that pits cyclists/pedestrians against cars and resulted in numerous deaths over the years. I think over 7,000 cyclists/pedestrians were killed in the United States last year alone, along with over 40,000 motorists? Absolutely huge number of people are dying on our streets due to our poor infrastructure.

We have the highest traffic fatalities of any developed country. The Europeans realized this and have segregated a majority of their roads from sidewalks/bike paths as much as possible.

Metro used to use tokens?

I don't disagree. Lives matter more than property, yes.

But the issues are separate and require separate sets of solutions. We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

There's plenty of Chinese nearby. I like Big Wong and Wok and Roll.

I know a lot of cyclists keep harping about safety and bike lanes, but I think bike theft is really the bigger problem overall. Yes, one cyclist killed is still one cyclist killed too many but hundreds if not thousands of people get their bikes swiped in this city every year.

Still 200+ murders too many. Life is too cheap in this country.

In addition to more bike lanes, the city should also focus on another huge thing that's keeping people from riding their bike more: rampant bike theft.

Now I understand that bike theft is scarcely on most police forces' radars insofar as crime is concerned, but the city should build out a network of staffed bike cages throughout the city so that people feel comfortable using their bike as a commuting option. Most of my friends use their bikes for recreation only but not as a commuting option because there's no safe place to park their bikes. Most bike thieves steal with impunity, even in well-trafficked areas.

I agree that road safety is paramount for cyclists but that's not the only issue. If your front wheel, seat, or whole bike keeps getting stolen by people running around with hydraulic bolt cutters and battery angle grinders, you are less likely to ride your bike and use the infrastructure that the city is spending money to build out.

I would start by squaring off some of the roundabouts, like the ones around Thomas Circle and Logan Circle. I know, roundabouts are much more efficient than regular intersections but most American drivers don't really know how to navigate roundabouts. I know I struggle with them when driving.

I went to City Winery in Boston once for a concert and it was fine. My issue with the place is that I couldn't really tell who the core audience this place is for. Is it for wine snobs? But then again I see so many concerts and comedy shows held there, so is it also a music venue? Though the artists they tend to book are pretty small and indie for the most part, so even that's a tough draw.

The menu is also really generic - New American stuff that can be found in a myriad of upscale bars and restaurants.

City Winery is just really lacking an identity. It tries to be everything to everyone and the concept ends up feeling flat enough that most would not come back unless their favorite artist or comedian also happened to show up.

My issue with DC driving is that the city is laid out in an imperfect grid. There are many avenues that cut diagonally across city blocks. I find myself even confused by what the GPS is telling me to do sometimes - it will tell me to turn but I then see that making that turn isn't very safe because cars are incoming from the other direction along the diagonal. The stop lights are sometimes ambiguous - are they for my lane or the other lane?

I don't own a car and mostly walk or use the train, but I think if the city was laid out in a perfect grid without all these weird cross avenues, it will ease a lot of the confusion. Avenues like New York Avenue, Florida Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, etc. can disorient drivers, especially those who are not familiar with these streets.

Honestly DC should just have a purge day where everything short of murder, arson, vandalism of public property or bodily harm is legal. Get it out of everyone's system.

This dude escalated a traffic stop to vehicular homicide. Now he's looking at many years in jail. Did he think he was actually going to get away?

The kids can just use it as a kick scooter before they ditch it.

He mentioned using a chain. Cable locks are nothing, small bolt cutters will cut them like nothing.

Chains are much tougher to break but the locks are generally easy to pick.

What tools did they use to break the chain?

Barely these days. Aldi prices everything only a couple of cents under Walmart now.

Doesn't guarantee recovery.

Some people are probably not in any condition to drive the car they parked at a Metro station after an alcohol binge over NYE.

It's cheap and has the basics. Plus with Aldi's prices creeping up, it wasn't worth the trek out to Benning Road for groceries anymore.