with capitol hill, with the politicians who don't even really live there and guess what? the people of d.c. have the same problems with washington that we do. i love d.c. it's a beautiful place, a city with a proud black history when it wasn't easy to be black and proud and a city that's consistently turned out some of the best artists and thought leaders and many of those people have a real problem with washington because washington won't let d.c. but d.c., a diverse place with progressive politics, with a history of fighting for the voices of the unheard. look, on some level, washington will probably always be a mess but that ain't d.c.'s fault. whether you're on the left or right or an opportunist, you have to support a city being allowed to decide what's good for itself. let d.c. be d.c. i think police do a lot of