Neighborhood on lockdown make residents mad.

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WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - District of Columbia officials claimed a victory after a six-day takeover of the Trinidad neighborhood, one of the city’s high crime areas, resulted in no acts of violence but others questioned the tactic and its ability to have long term results.

“It’s just lazy policing,” Ron Hampton, executive director of the National Black Police Association told The Final Call. “What they’re doing is stopping people normally coming through that area or those passing through to other parts of the city. It’s very easy to claim that this type of policing works. But restricting peoples’ movements in that area might be a violation of their constitutional rights.”


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IMO, there should've been another way of handling this situation. Would you agree?...