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There are two kinds of people in Washington, D.C. – the ones who commute in from Virginia or Maryland, and the ones who actually live here. I’m in the latter group, alongside generations of "original Washingtonians" whose families have called this city home for a lifetime.

Now, I haven’t lived here a lifetime, but I’m almost at a decade and I consider this city my home. So it’s hard to take seriously that President Donald Trump has suddenly decided D.C. crime is a national crisis.

The two high-profile incidents involving young White men, one killed and one beaten nearly to death, are real and heartbreaking tragedies But the people who live here have been talking about crime for years: in neighborhood meetings, on D.C. Re

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