I live in Highview right at 13th and Clifton and didn’t hear anything last night. I did notice a higher than normal police presents on my way to work this morning though. Does anyone know anything else about this?

From Comm. George Kucik on the MPD 3d District listserv:

“At about 2:10 this morning a subject was shot while in the 1200 block of Clifton st. He is in stable condition. Another subject was grazed. Preliminary info is that this was not a random assault. Anyone with informatioin is asked to call 202 727-9099>”

I vote no more daily crime reports.

Well I mean DCist is reporting someone was shot, but in stable condition, so I think that adds a substantial amount of information.

That block of Clifton always seemed nice to me, there are those fancy High View apartment buildings and Cardozo, though I haven’t spent much time on it.

Ah, not enough coffee, not carefully reading comments. My apologies.

@ u street girl -

That block of Clifton and Euclid has had drug dealer activity on it since the 1970s. It’s come a long way from the Clifton Terrace days when it was DC’s version of Cabrini Green, but there’s still a lot of criminal activity in the area because a lot of the same criminal families live there.

@Nate – That’s nothing. Go past Florida Avenue to 12th Place and there’s a house where the family has been dealing since the 1960s. The cops and everyone on the block know about it. Every once in a while the grandkids decide to have a little fun and start slashing peoples’ tires. They get arrested, disappear for a year to 18 months, and then it starts right back up again. The older neighbors who’ve been in the neighborhood since the ’70s told us about it at a house party. Another great reason to meet and greet and get to know your neighbors: the ones who’ve been around know where the $h!t goes down.

There used to be another longtime dealer house on V Street near Busboys.

That’s just it. Low-level dealers never make much money. That’s why they live with their mothers. They stay in the business trying to work their way up but most never get out of their parents basement. It’s particularly pathetic in this instance because you’d think after decades, SOMEONE in the family would eventually become the Neighborhood Kingpin. Instead, they deal and fence stolen goods and slash tires year after year after year and never make anything of themselves.

Yeah, plus even if these kids make a pile of cash they just go blow it on clothes or cars that they then don’t register/insure and end up getting impounded. Money management isn’t exactly one of the street skilz [most] dudes pick up dealing drugs.

monkeyrotica – you have incorrect information. Ive lived on 12th Place for 5 years, no activity that you describe. Quiet street, not much traffic, no-one has grandkids (unless you count a 5 year old) and no tyre slashing……….suggest you dont believe all sensationalist house party talk!

PS – there were a couple of drug houses here in the 1990′s, but thats a decade ago now..