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2009-03-03T03:05:00.000-05:00

The way you talk about Long Branch makes it sound ...

2008-12-19T12:30:00.000-05:00

The way you talk about Long Branch makes it sound like you are more worried about keeping up the precious Silver Spring name and property values than actually dealing with issues of youth crime in PG and MoCo. I like reading your blog but that tone really turns me off. It's a great neighborhood with occasional crime that rarely affects those without a foot in the gang life. Langley Park and Long Branch are fabulous, diverse neighborhoods with great restaurants that could use MORE investment in schools, parks, safety, etc. not a wall between the poors and the riches.

I also live in that area (~8500 block of Flower Av...

2008-11-13T16:22:00.000-05:00

I also live in that area (~8500 block of Flower Ave) and, while there have been times I've felt skittish walking around it wasn't anything unreasonable (I am female and used to watching around me). To be honest I'm a little tired of well-to-do white suburbanites going off their rails because there's crime in their vicinity. Stuff happens. Keep yourself safe.

Also, my mailing address is Takoma Park and I don't consider Arliss and Piney Branch to be Silver Spring at all.

They caught the shooter over the weekend. It's bee...

2008-11-09T17:45:00.000-05:00

They caught the shooter over the weekend. It's been confirmed that he has ties to MS-13.

I think that's a bit of an overreaction. The bus m...

2008-11-06T15:55:00.000-05:00

I think that's a bit of an overreaction. The bus murder was the type of outrage that doesn't occur in high-crime areas very often, let alone in MoCo. Yes, that part of SS may have more crime than others, but it should be put in context. MoCo has just a few homicides every year, compared with 200 or so in DC.

I live a few blocks from where the murder took place and I take the bus every day and have had no problems. There has been a rise in petty crime, though, perhaps due to the tanking economy. I would like to see an increased police presence, with a focus on gang activities.

Oh....perhaps that's why we did not see any Zombie...

2008-11-04T23:02:00.000-05:00

Oh....perhaps that's why we did not see any Zombies on Sunday night. Shoot!

My sister lives right near there, and insists that...

2008-11-04T17:27:00.000-05:00

My sister lives right near there, and insists that her neighborhood is A-1 hunky-dory and she wouldn't want to live anyplace else for the world.

This even after someone broke into her house, stole her piggy-bank, terrorized her cats, and spraypainted "vatos locos SS" in the hallway of her house.

Of course, when she bought the place in 1979, where she lives was considered "a nice Jewish neighborhood". When people like me tell her she really ought to be a little more concerned about safety and security, she usually comes back with something like "but I don't really have anything worth stealing so they're not going to rob me and anyway I have good insurance".

Well, someone seemed to think it was worth breaking in to steal a piggy-bank (note to self, never leave piggy-banks where passersby can see them through the window) and leave some graffiti. And now this latest incident, as far as anyone is saying, someone got shot dead on the bus for no reason at all.

I do remember back in the late 1970s and early 1980s when all along Piney Branch from around Flower Avenue into the District was Hippie Love Paradise and they had cool little stores and awesome youth scenes. I'm not someone who scares easily but every time in the last 5 years or so that I've been along Piney Branch between University and Flower, I put on my best non-expression and think "drive on, drive through, drive on" and pray to not have to stop for a red light.

Aspen Hell, by the way, has the same "CSAFE" level of status and statistical surveillance with the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention as does that part of Silver Spring. However, we are not quite yet to the same level of decrepitude and abandonment as you see there between University Blvd and Sligo Creek along Piney Branch. I give it five years. Another success for "Ike" Leggett and his merry band.

Yes, Aspen Hill may have a bit of a crime problem,...

2008-11-04T15:21:00.000-05:00

Yes, Aspen Hill may have a bit of a crime problem, but all the high-profile crimes in Silver Spring seem to happen within a few blocks of the Piney Branch & University intersection.

Ah, about that bit with "it's the other parts of S...

2008-11-04T15:20:00.000-05:00

Ah, about that bit with "it's the other parts of Silver Spring that give DTSS the bad reputation"...

Note, if you will, that all of Aspen Hill east of Georgia Avenue is "Silver Spring 20906".

It's got a bit of a Crime Problem, too.

Zombies? Downtown?? Quick! Everybody to the fire s...

2008-11-04T11:39:00.000-05:00

Zombies? Downtown?? Quick! Everybody to the fire station!

Yeah, those buses are dangerous. I heard one even...

2008-11-04T10:46:00.000-05:00

Yeah, those buses are dangerous. I heard one even got attacked by zombies on Saturday night, right in the middle of downtown!

It will be interesting to see whether the shooter ...

2008-11-03T23:11:00.000-05:00

It will be interesting to see whether the shooter (and friends) also were hanging out downtown that evening -- as the victim and his companions were. Could this be one of the "thugs" that some of us complained about earlier this year, but were assured didn't really exist, or weren't really a threat of violence?

I'm pretty sure it happened the same night as the ...

2008-11-03T22:16:00.000-05:00

I'm pretty sure it happened the same night as the Zombie Walk (Saturday @ 11).

Just to clarify - the buses aren't particularly dangerous, but the wacky stuff tends to happen on them a lot more than it does on Metrorail.

It didn't happen during the Zombie walk. It happe...

2008-11-03T21:59:00.000-05:00

It didn't happen during the Zombie walk. It happened the night before around 11 p.m. Not that it matters terribly except I don't really want my kids riding around in cars, buses, metros or anywhere, basically late on any night--probably anywhere. That's when all this type of #!%* happens.

Someone suggested this may have been a gang initiation rite--the gunman didn't know the kids, he just had a job to do.

That's about three blocks from my apartment.Yeah, ...

2008-11-03T21:38:00.000-05:00

That's about three blocks from my apartment.

Yeah, it's crime-ridden, but at the same time, I've been here for a while and I've never been the victim of anything. One of my neighbors was burglarized once, and there was once a mugging a block away, but I've never been attacked or mugged or anything. Maybe it's just the luck of the draw; maybe I'm just lucky.

I take the 12 Ride-On bus to work most days; never had a problem. I used the buses like crazy a few years back when I was living a car-free lifestyle for a while, and I was OK.

I dunno; there are problems around here, but they haven't affected me all that much. It's hard for me to judge. If this is the worst part of Silver Spring then maybe the town as a whole isn't all that bad....