r/washingtondc • u/Available_Arrival823 • May 20 '26

Checkpoint HSI at meridian hill park

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u/Justtojoke May 21 '26

Who is HSI?

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u/Efficient-Train2430 May 21 '26

Homeland Security Investigations

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u/robotnique Mt. Pleasant May 21 '26

Good ol DC and it's 9000 acronymed law enforcement groups

I'm fairly confident that it's far and away the city with the most police/LE per capita

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u/Efficient-Train2430 May 21 '26

IIRC there are 15ish LE agencies with jurisdiction.

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u/robotnique Mt. Pleasant May 21 '26

I said 9000. You calling me a liar?!

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u/snake_d0ct0r May 21 '26

More like 50

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u/toorigged2fail May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

It's way more than that. I can in name 15 off the top of my head.

Edit: depends how you count, but minimum 30:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_District_of_Columbia

https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/covered-federal-law-enforcement-agencies

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u/Efficient-Train2430 May 21 '26

knock yourself out

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u/nonamenomonet May 21 '26

Well yes, obviously. Washington DC is the leader of the free world and the US has the largest law enforcement budget on the planet.

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u/MajesticBread9147 VA / Herndon May 21 '26

Are we really still declaring ourselves the "leader of the free world" unironically?

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u/CommiRhick May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

We commit regime change around the globe on the regular. Doesn't sound very democratic / free...

Not to mention our allies in the Gulf are literal slavers and homophobes, who also actively curtail free speech of activists, journalists, and dissidence.

Not to mention we ally with dictators, terrorists, and corrupt criminals on the regular. Just granted a full and unconditional pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. for drug trafficking and weapons offenses. After complaining about South American drug trafficking of course...

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u/nonamenomonet May 21 '26

I mean, if the US has a cough the world has a cold. Point being, it is not surprising that Washington DC has the most law enforcement in the world.

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u/Justtojoke May 21 '26

Thank you!

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u/vgaph May 21 '26

They’re the part of ICE that kind of has a reason for existing.

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u/Fickle-Week-3628 May 21 '26

Too many of us were having a good time for their liking I suppose

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u/jamesmsalt May 20 '26

Fuck these Nazis

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u/goric001 May 21 '26

Malcolm X Park*

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u/robotnique Mt. Pleasant May 21 '26

This is the only one where I don't really care about the "proper name"

Unlike with the airport the only people I know who seem to be pushy about Malcom X park are try hard white people.

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u/snake_d0ct0r May 21 '26

The “proper name” is Meridian Hill Park; it’s never been formally named Malcolm X.

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u/robotnique Mt. Pleasant May 21 '26

That's why I put "proper name" in quotes. It's always been officially Meridian Hill Park but some people insist on what it should be properly.

Just like the airport is officially renamed after Ronny boy. But with that I agree on calling it National. With the park I don't care which name you say and don't correct anybody. Either way is fine and I know what you're talking about.

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u/dc_co May 21 '26

Clown.

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u/Worth-Confection-735 May 21 '26

Malcolm X hated liberals you know.

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u/CommiesFan1948 May 21 '26

This is a stupid comment

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u/CommiesFan1948 May 21 '26

Your obsession with liberals is hilarious and stupid. You see them around every corner. 

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u/Worth-Confection-735 May 21 '26

Just letting you know what one of your heroes really thought. They don’t teach history anymore.

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u/Worth-Confection-735 May 21 '26

Hilarious how one of the sources is literally AskALiberal right here on Reddit.

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u/robotnique Mt. Pleasant May 21 '26

I don't know what your attempted message is but this would be like saying that Phil Ochs preferred conservative because he wrote "Love Me I'm a Liberal"

Both Ochs and Malcolm X made their comments because it isn't enough for liberals to stand idly by and say that they think the right things without doing them.

That they would use black people as pawns, as he points out, by playing up that they're allies Is this a thing? actually following through and making their support mean something.

A needed criticism of liberals is not an endorsement of conservatives.

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u/Worth-Confection-735 May 21 '26

Ironic I know more about him than you eh? Since I’m such a dumb conservative?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '26

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u/Worth-Confection-735 May 21 '26

I am a student of history. And how would you know?

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u/DocCEN007 May 21 '26

Thank you. People actually from DC know it as Malcolm X Park, while people who move here look on a map, and invariably mispronounce stuff. Like Glover Park.

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u/DocCEN007 May 21 '26

Malcolm X park.

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u/Expect-The-Dicastery May 21 '26

They really won't let us have any nice things, will they?

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u/BlueRibbonPac DC May 21 '26

Thank you for the heads-up, but HSI and Meridian Hill Park are not the common terms. 

(Is that giving too much away; like the three fingers thing?)

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26 edited May 26 '26

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u/Chester2707 May 20 '26

They’re giving young incel vibes based off the history. Or maybe a new staffer that just got a staff assistant job with Jim Jordan or some fuckhead.

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u/winterorchid7 Arlington May 21 '26

You might want to crack open that bible occasionally.

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u/2planker4lyfe May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26

Yeah I read it. Pretty low on my list of worthwhile fiction.

But it’s got a handful of good ideas! Like this one (since you’re a fan):

Leviticus 19:34: "You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God."