This account asked people to share stories to prove DC crime isn’t so bad and the exact opposite happened 🍿

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Joel Abbott

Aug 14, 2025

Behold, the post that started a movement:

Washingtonian Problems joined Twitter in 2014. It routinely posts about crime in the city, but also defends against allegations that D.C. is a crime-ridden nightmare.

Whether this particular post was a genuine call for positivity or reverse psychology to get people to dish their negativity, it went viral within hours with testimony after testimony of unbelievable crimes out of D.C.

Here are several dozen of the top responses:

[Warning: Language has been censored, but these testimonies deal with a variety of sordid behavior]

But some commenters waxed poetic:

Looks like we can add one more crime to this list 👇


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