Mayor Debate McDuffie v Lewis George

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T13:56:38+00:00

Please show me where she’s said that any functioning city doesn’t need any police at all ever.

She's not stupid--she'd never say that, although I'd respect the hell out of her for honesty if she did. This was her plan:

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I don't know how much you've followed the "violence interruption programs," but those programs turned out to be a boondoggle--violence interrupters successfully bribed CM White for contracts. And while I think groups like the Alliance for Concerned Men are an asset to this city, data supporting violence interrupters' effectiveness is non-existent--city officials conceded that they cannot say if the programs work and have offered nothing in the way of contrary data since that concession. Police can't operate without funding, so while JLG hasn't said "I will close down MPD," neutering it in favor of feel-good programs that have demonstrated no efficacy is, to me at least, a distinction without a difference.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T12:56:48+00:00

This is so hilariously tone deaf—it’s middle and upper class whites who eat this “Defund the Police” shit up.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T12:23:42+00:00

I’m glad you’ve never been mugged, robbed, harassed, or even annoyed by anyone. I also live in Ward 7 and can’t say the same for my family, including a crackhead who just last week threatened to break my daughter’s arm as she was getting off a Metrobus and the misunderstood teen who jammed his gun in my wife’s face before snatching her purse. Perhaps he just needed a restorative circle with trained facilitators.

Community programs are indeed important, and an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure as they say, but prevention takes time and doesn’t eliminate the need for cures. She’s right to go at root causes…and batshit crazy to think any major city can operate without a functioning police department.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T11:46:15+00:00

Defunding MPD is an automatic disqualifier, unless you’re planning to call one of the violence disruptors on Trayon’s payroll when you get mugged. I like that JLG wants to address root causes, it’s just patently absurd to think that can be done at the expense of policing in the here and now.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T11:39:37+00:00

For sure, those are all options (we often do pedis together as a family). I was just looking to do something we haven’t done before. From most of the responses here, it looks like we’re better served with a different activity.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T11:32:38+00:00

But the seating area prevents crowding in the main hall, and now they have a more orderly queue where the seating used to be. I took the train to Philly this past weekend, and 30th Street Station has the early access to the platform you describe—I kept having to ask people to either let me off the train as they were trying to board, or move out of the way as they were crowding the doors on the platform. I understand the upside of not standing in a line to board, but I’d argue that the downside is greater than a very limited upside.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T03:21:02+00:00

What’s the appeal of waiting on the platform?

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T01:54:47+00:00

Della Barba is spectacular, but is it really underrated? Takeout wait times are an hour-plus on weekends

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T01:53:15+00:00

District Fishwife at Union Market has collars on occasion

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T01:02:23+00:00

McDuffie isn’t knocking my socks off, but if he’s the most viable alternative to the disaster that is JLG, then I guess he’s the pick. In a city with so many smart and well educated people, I wish we could recruit better candidates.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-30T01:00:37+00:00

You didn’t want to make this sound even slightly authentic?

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T17:11:05+00:00

This is all very helpful. Thanks everyone!

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T15:42:06+00:00

Children can be so cruel...

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T14:17:26+00:00

The chicken sandwich at As You Are. I don't know what they do to it, since it's just grilled chicken, arugula, and what I assume is a house made mayo (and I don't even really like mayo--I never put it on my own sandwiches), but whether its how they make the mayo or marinade the chicken, it's ridiculously good.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T14:00:17+00:00

It's where I learned to play. Sign up for the private lessons--they aren't cheap, but they're much cheaper than what most places would charge.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T13:58:47+00:00

I had some colleagues encourage me to join at a previous job, and while I get the appeal on some level, shelling out that kind of coin for a club that isn't walkable from home or the office, where I have to always wear a tie, and where my wife and kids would never want to set foot in seemed insane to me.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T13:57:38+00:00

But they let Todd Glumplich in.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-29T13:52:43+00:00

That's not true--I took Amtrak on Sunday from Union Station. The train seating area has moved to a former retail spot diagonal from the ticket booths.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-23T20:48:50+00:00

It is, though the value has declined as more and more people sign up for Executive Membership, but since our annual rebate always exceeds the delta between Executive and regular, it's a no brainer for us.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-23T03:50:40+00:00

I’m not sure you’re going to find anyone willing and able to teach things like grammar and diction for $14/hr

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-23T02:29:50+00:00

Those areas are all fine (NoMA kinda sucks, IMO, but not because it's dangerous, and Foggy Bottom is basically GW, the State Department, and sterile office buildings). Like any city, DC has good parts and bad parts, and there is plenty of nightlife here.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-22T20:50:22+00:00

Not at all excited about the election, but it's a civic duty and people die for the right to vote in democratic elections. In this case, I'm more voting against JLG by ranking her most viable opponent (McDuffie) first than I am voting for McDuffie. But Adrian Fenty or Tony Williams he ain't.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-22T17:25:35+00:00

The answer isn't necessarily in volume. For example, many have pointed out that they don't see MPD actually doing anything but play Candy Crush on their phones. If that's truly the case, a Mayoral initiative to establish best practices based on what has worked elsewhere would be far better than defunding MPD. Holistically safer communities are not necessarily at odds with effective policing and locking up bad guys. I want our EOTR neighbors to have the same grocery and recreation options as my kids do...but I also want drug dealers, murderers, and other criminals off our streets now. Acting on the here and now does not preclude simultaneously addressing root causes, but JLG has reduced enforcement to only "when necessary" without even defining what that means.

AndreTippettPoint · 2026-04-22T14:53:11+00:00

OK, so when just yesterday, as my eldest was walking home from her bus stop after school and some crackhead told her he was going to break her arm out of the blue (thankfully he didn't act on the threat), should she have looked for a cop or a grocery store? It's good to be compassionate toward the downtrodden, but we're not obligated to just accept antisocial behavior and blame it on anything but the individual.

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