So what is happening to the city I live in? Just in a 30-day plus period we experience a politically motivated shooting at Simpson Stadium; a road rage killing; multiple people being shot during one incident; two pedestrians being severely hit while in a crosswalk, a race-based protest/rally just 90 minutes south of us of which we too could become a similar focal point over the push to "relocate" the Confederate soldier monument.
For a city that "doesn't have a gang problem," over the last two years we certainly have had a lot of interesting events related to that from homicides, a stabbing incident, graffiti, drugs in park trash receptacles — some of this of course never made the news.
Even over the last same 30-plus days, has anyone else noticed the growing number of vehicles in the right lane making an illegal left turn — often as many as five vehicles per light cycle. As for Henry Street at Prince, it is a curiosity why that intersection, more than any other, always has traffic blocking the intersection.
In the end, as to the first part of this letter, what is happening to our once wonderful city?
Ruben "Bill" Duran
Alexandria