FYI when I was there it was generally known being harassed by Park cops was a risk but them going through the paperwork of booking unlikely https://twitter.com/timkrepp/status/878231604509933572 …
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I don't say this to minimize what happened but it's a general background risk of these kids' lives as it is in a lot of tourist towns
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And I'm sure ppl will defend the cops saying there really are Bad Hombres who prey on tourists being shady and whatnot, whatever
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Re: the Bad Hombres argument I prolly have more standing to speak than most. I worked in Union Station, I got to know the hustlers by sight
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I even had a dude try to shake me down for money once coming out of the Metro (v weird one-off event)
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But yeah ppl trying to make a buck off tourists is the result of having tourism, the ppl made uncomfortable by it can deal
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Any move to pull a Giuliani Disneyfying broken windows policy on the Mall would be a cure much worse than the disease
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