Board Member Ab Jordan Featured in the Washington Post

Absalom Jordan. Image via The Washington Post.

From The Washington Post:

Absalom Jordan was about to go to sleep in his Southeast apartment the other night when he heard gunshots. The sound is familiar enough to him that he did not feel compelled to even look out his window. He got into bed and figured he’d find out what happened the next day.

Jordan, 82, has lived for nearly 30 years in Washington Highlands, a Ward 8 neighborhood that is among the city’s most violent. On Aug. 24, a noontime meeting he helped organize about security at his building was interrupted when several participants — a police officer and two guards — had to respond to reports of nearby gunfire.

“I’m so used to this,” said Jordan, who lived in Southeast during the city’s drug wars. The mayhem of those years — rooted in turf battles between drug gangs — made more sense to him than the crime that involves youngsters now.