An armed robbery was reported to Montgomery County police at a restaurant in downtown Bethesda Wednesday night, October 1, 2025. The robbery was reported in the 7200 block of 47th Street at 9:55 PM. Papa John's is the only restaurant on that block. The pizzeria is open until midnight on Wednesdays.
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Could have been House of Foo Ling (sketchy spot)
The crime wave spreading from Rockville to Bethesda resembles "The Blob."
House of Foong Lin is on Willow Lane, not 47th.
I was right there exactly 3 hours earlier, but thanks to scanner encryption didn't have a clue until reading Robert's blog.
The Purple Line is coming a half block away. That'll be nice.
While Bethesda is plundered our dauntless leaders are doing ritual routines.
they need to install public cameras
To quote one of our in-house Elrich voters: It's just one robbery out of hundreds of restaurants!
The Purple Line will cause no increase in crime, but will enhance access to jobs, housing, and higher education opportunities for thousands of folks. Countless studies have shown that improved mass transit does not increase crime. Many studies have looked at the impact of extending mass transit from less wealthy areas into more wealthy areas and doing so does not have a long term impact on crime, and always has a net improvement to society.
IAW There will be wealth diffusion.
Thanks Marc Elrich.
6:48 Seriously? Where will you be when the criminals from the Piney Branch area start to target easy marks in Bethesda? Won't hear a peep out of you that's for sure as the left has been selling BS like cashless bail, won't raise your premiums by one thin dime, the border is secure and thousands of other promises that were never true and even to this day no leftists out there to say they were wrong. You should find another job as paid liar for the council limits your future job opportunities
6:48 I am willing to bet you are quite wrong. It won't even cut down on carjacking to get here and rob us.
From a study by Greg Ridgeway and John MacDonald
Neigborhoods often resist public transit expansion for fears that it will increase crime by attracting transient populations and prospecting criminals. On the other hand, transit may reduce crime by altering economic development and other positive features of neighborhoods. Studies examining public transit and crime have either been cross sectional or examined the impact of public transit expansion in a limited number of locations. We improve on previous research by examining the effect that the Los Angeles Metro Rail system had on crime in neighborhoods. Analyzing data on crimes reported to the police over 27 years we are able to assess the change in crime in the neighborhoods surrounding stations as they opened compared to neighborhoods not exposed to new transit stations. We also capitalize on the fact that during this period Los Angeles experienced two of the nation's longest transit strikes. These interruptions provide a natural experiment that we use to test for the effect of transit on crime neighborhoods. We find no evidence that new transit station openings or a disruption in transit due to strikes result in changes in crime in surrounding neighborhoods.
From Bloomberg:
A look at the Green Line in Los Angeles published by the UCLA Department of Urban Planning in 2003 found that criminal incidents did not increase in suburban areas newly connected to downtown LA, and the only places where crime increased along the light rail line were in stations located in areas of the city where crime rates were already higher than normal. A 2015 University of Pennsylvania study that analyzed 27 years of LA data also found no evidence of any crime-transit connection. A 2011 study of crime trends before and after the construction of light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, showed that property crimes actually fell after station locations were announced and remained stable after trains began running. “Fear of increased crime around stations appears unsubstantiated,” the authors concluded.
648 is definitive in saying "will cause no increase in crime". You must be clairvoyant, at least this time because every other social engineering program enacted by this council has blown up in their face. Let me predict what will happen when crime does increase: IT'S TRUMP'S FAULT!
6:48 PM: Articulate Obfuscations.
729/736 LA? There's no crime in LA... The democrat governor of NC just signed a bill eliminating cashless bail because of the brutal stabbing in Charlotte so at least one person in your party has more than 2 brain cells. Sell your miracle cure to others in your party although they're all busy burning cities down.
Unbelievable how you guys pull up some progressive study to justify whatever lie of the day is. Hope it helps you and your council masters sleep at night while the rest of us should just accept crime as it's part of life in a blue city in a blue state.
I hope the blog master here saves these so we can show how ridiculously inaccurate these 'studies' are. The data is mined from the very crime numbers that are now being exposed as total BS.
7:36 I cannot believe you quoted a Bloomberg article mentioning Charlotte NC in the context that it is mentioned here. How out of touch can you be?
I agree, you cannot reverse the tide.
Hey,I live off PineyBranch,and I went to BCC highschool.Whats your problem.
As someone who lived/worked near Flower/Piney Branch during college for 4 years, the entire area all they way down to New Hampshire Ave isn't a really safe area especially after dark. I would put money that the PL tunnel that starts near is going to be drug central and those people are just a short ride to Bethesda. Every single business in that area, except the two where the employees are legally armed, were robbed several times so the problem is anything but mine.
It will be wealth redistribution like Obama wanted
I was just posting two separate studies that dismiss the tropes that transit increases crime. These article don’t even mention the massive benefits of transit on society. Less cars on the road to get in JAC’s way. JAC’s kids can live at home and save room and board if they enroll at the University of Maryland. Tons of folks have enhanced access to better jobs, more housing options and enhanced entertainment opportunities. Although tremendously expensive, the Purple Line will become one of the most heavily used light rail lines in the country. A side benefit is the extension of the Capital Crescent Trail that will extend from Georgetown, to Bethesda, Chevy Chase Lake, Rock Creek Park and Silver Spring, creating a world class hiker-biker system that will also reduce car usage by offering a great bike commuter corridor in the region. People seem to believe I wear rose colored glasses and only look at the positive aspects of transit, that’s why I post evidence that dispels the myth that transit increases crime. Perhaps folks that disagree could post studies that show the opposite of that’s what they believe to be true.
If only Democrats could build a rail system that would bring people from New Carrollton over to Bethesda...
5:23 - So let's take this in another direction, which you opened the door for. You are saying that the Purple Line will become the most heavily used light rail in the country. That's a bold prediction. Many of these systems cannot generate the ridership needed to offet the cost. This thing is a boondoogle and millions and millions over budget if not more than that and its delivery keeps getting pushed back. We'll be lucky if it opens in 2028.
@5:23 why is there no light rail system in this country that can sustain itself without massive government subsidies? Because the left loves vanity projects that sound good on paper but have zero history of delivering on any of the promises. Here's the rub, you are nowhere to be seen when when it doesn't because good intentions outweigh actual results. Trump is the only politician in the last 50 years to do exactly what he promised and unlike all the progressives can be judged by the outcomes.
Keep saying you don't wear those rose colored glasses but good intentions without results is meaningless. One would think that most adults would know that but being a government shill makes you detached from reality.
https://wjla.com/news/local/statistics-growing-crime-in-virginias-tysons-corner-area-since-silver-line-opened
@5:23 Does the news you watch even report the stabbing on the Charlotte rail system? Blows up your Cloward & Piven study when your side is releasing repeat offenders with zero consequences. Keep on repeating the lies and eventually becomes your truth.
Woe to all those merchants and neighbors in Georgetown who fearful of crime lobbied AGAINST having a Redline Merro station! Per these cited studies they needn't have worried since Subway stops apparently don't attract and bring crime now..
5:23, I'd love to agree with you but likely the "raw" data your links/studies use is woefully inaccurate and skewed. We really cannot trust anything anymore.
It borders on insanity to think public transportation in our area will not bring crime to more affluent areas.
Thanks for posting this, a good counterpoint argument to what I have read. Luckily it’s just property crime, but still an unfortunate and unintended consequence of adding transit. In some ways Bethesda is lucky that it already has other forms of transit like Metro and extensive buses, so perhaps the addition of light rail, will not cause a spike in crime.
My prediction of success is based on the population along the route and the massive draw of Bethesda and Silver Spring being connected. I think the Five stations at the University of Maryland will also draw tons of students and faculty to the system. Lastly, connecting the red, green, orange and silver lines outside of downtown DC will provide lots of commuting alternatives. I guess we will find out in a few years.
The is no doubt that the PL has been way too expensive, messy, disruptive, noisy and has taken way too long to build. Once again, I think in the long run, it will be worth the hassle. Many folks had similar complaints when the Metro was being built, but I think you would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t think that was worth the effort. For a moment try to imagine the DMV without Metro. Massive new freeways and a downtown filled with parking decks and surface parking lots. For a good example, take a look at downtown Detroit, which were offered a Metro system, but couldn’t agree to get it built. About 50% of downtown Detroit is devoted solely for parking, fed my six massive, neighborhood-killing freeways.
Finger pointing, the typical response from wingers, blame others for their own problems.
What a shame 1:10 you could have had some entertainment to eat your pizza by.
Here we go again. The PL will not raise the crime rate, even a caveman knows this.
An interesting article about why the fear of crime was not the real reason that Georgetown does not have a Metro Station. Yes a small group of outspoken residents did object, but the planners of the Metro never seriously considered a stop in Georgetown. This is a famous myth about the planning and construction of the Metro that refuses to die.
https://boundarystones.weta.org/2023/01/20/metro-mythbusting-georgetowns-nonexistent-metro-stop
@5:17 Operative word is "I think" which is different from your original claim of absolutes regarding crime. Wishing for certain outcomes is just that, good intentions or not. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts. Whether you like it or not, a European style public transit system has inherent problems in a car-centric American society and shoving down peoples throats with public money illustrates how detached from reality democrats are trying to practice social engineering. It's sad really how your objective failures are not enough to at least alter course but like a Jim Jones cult, you guys are true believers.
10:58 - That's exactly correct. The light rail transit, for the most part in the USA, doesn't work as it does with oue European counterparts. I travel to Ireland often and on occasion, Dublin city centre. The light rail there is incredibly popular and a terrific and quick way to get around that city. One needs to only look to Baltimore to see how our car-centric society, as you point out, impacts. The ridership across that entire system up there is poor. You hit the nail on the head when you suggest this is being force fed to us. Social engineering never works. Anti-car, which this is, is even less successful. Great post.
Yeah PL will mess up Bethesda downtown.
"studies show"... Haha
Some of the comments in here are barely concealed proxies for racism. You slur people who live in certain areas as criminals. For no good reason.
The criminals from the Piney Branch area are no match for the snobs and rageaholics of Bethesda.
Bethesda downtown is already messed up. Crowded, expensive, and dull.
11:27 is so typical of an outraged leftist living relatively secure in Bethesda essentially saying all neighborhoods are the same yet never having lived in any marginal areas screams racism. I'm sure you're against Trump making DC safe while the actual residents of places you've never been like Anacostia are thankful for increased enforcement.
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