classicalL t1_it022nc wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:11 PM

If it gets bad enough Congress will revoke home rule and clean up the city because they won't want to have to be in such a place. It will happen within the next decade if the DC gov continues to promote decriminalizing everything and general lawlessness and give aways. Congress has the sole right to control the district as they see fit as written in the constitution.

Retrosession to MD and it would actually get cleaned up I suspect. Both MD and VA are far better run.

strangechicken t1_it076er wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:50 PM

> Retrosession to MD and it would actually get cleaned up

Baltimore exists

classicalL t1_it07spw wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:55 PM

Baltimore is not wealthy and does not have the tax base to draw on. Apples and oranges. Bethesda exists. Do you think DC looks more like Baltimore a post industrial city or Bethesda? Full of lawyers and doctors.

WealthyMarmot t1_it1awq8 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:24 AM

>Retrosession to MD and it would actually get cleaned up I suspect. Both MD and VA are far better run.

DC could implement Maryland's requirement requiring older juveniles to be tried as adults for almost any violent felony. They won't, but they could.