My family left the D. in the mid eighties as the local hospital expanded it's foot print into my neighborhood. second wave of flight, both white and black after CYA laid down his law in '74 led to a rapid decline in the quality of living. Unsupervised youth started roaming the streets looking for targets of opportunity to score money for drugs, reduced police presence, more petty larcenies causing stores to glass up or close. Homes and cars started getting broken into, bars went up on windows,and the "sale by insurance" became the norm. City services were basically reduced to weekly trash pick up and the Fire Dept. was the local entertainment outside of TV. Who's house or business is burning today???
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