Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 1:05 PM
To: Kenyan McDuffie; eom@dc.gov;
mpd@dc.gov
Cc: bloomingdalecc@googlegroups.com; Mueller, Mark (ANC 5E08) (5E08@anc.dc.gov) <5e08 anc.dc.gov="">; tj quinn; 5E09@anc.dc.gov; Bloomingdame
; Scott Roberts
; william.fitzgerald@dc.gov;
stuart.emerman@dc.gov; Bloomingdale Concerned Citizens
;
ReachBloomingdaleCA@gmail.com
Subject: Stop Bloomingdale crime spree
To: Kenyan McDuffie
Cc: bloomingdalecc@googlegroups.com; Mueller, Mark (ANC 5E08) (5E08@anc.dc.gov) <5e08 anc.dc.gov="">; tj quinn
Subject: Stop Bloomingdale crime spree
Dear Mayor Bowser,
Council Member McDuffie and Chief Lanier,
You were all missed
last month in our community meeting about safety in the Bloomingdale
neighborhood. Now, I am writing after the sad and disturbing news of the death
of Seth Rich, who was shot on Flagler and W St NW last Sunday morning.
At last month's
meeting, the representatives of the MPD promised that they would increase
police presence in order to deter a recent spree of armed robberies occurring
in the neighborhood. However, the streets in Bloomingdale are still dark
at night and the visible police presence has been minimal, at best. This has
been the case even though there were several armed robberies in between the
time of the community meeting and the deadly shooting on Sunday morning.
MPD representatives
said themselves that this crime wave would continue unless police were able to
arrest or scare away the criminals. Where is the effort to deter these
criminals from terrorizing our neighborhood? Where are the spot lights around
the construction zones? Where are the bike or foot patrols? The lack of an
appropriate response to these armed robberies is disheartening and careless!
Now, people are getting killed!
Me, my family or
any of my neighbors could be next to bleed to death in the streets of
Bloomingdale. I demand prompt action to stop this ongoing crime wave now.
Sincerely,
First Street NW
residents
Thank you for drafting this letter! From Second Street NW residents
ReplyDeleteHear there is a recall effort against CM McDuffie...
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking the time to write this letter, from your neighbors on North Capitol St. NW
ReplyDeleteContinue writing and tweeting publicly. Politicians don't respect single letters, they only respond to sustained, large quantity out cries.
ReplyDeleteWe should take to the streets. Our leaders are asleep at the wheel.
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing this open letter. My home was burglarized and they closed the case the same week with conducting only 1 day of interviewing neighbors. I've had several incidents of robbery at my residence and made many calls to Mcduffie and never received a single response from him. He wants to PAY criminals to stop commiting crimes. I hope you get a response because we shouldn't have to live like this.
ReplyDelete