Laugh all you want but DC has gotten sketchier since the pandemic. Tent cities everywhere. A lot more crazy homeless drugged up people around. Try Union station area. It is actually scary to park there cause when you do you are accosted by a bunch of loonies…. One of a few reasons I stopped going to my friends bar there… Businesses aren’t happy about the let it be approach either…
Laughing off increasing crime really isn’t a very constructive approach.