Jawando is hosting a panel of politicians to solve violent crime

[Anonymous]

His panel consists of politicians and policy wonks. No current law enforcement. No current community violence interruption programs. No current mental health experts. No practitioners from evidence-based best practices. At all.

We have to reduce violence in the county. But these are not the people who are going to do it if they refuse to be informed by subject matter experts. Why doesn't he access the police departments from these jurisdictions, and from Montgomery County -- the Street Outreach Network, the new mobile crisis units, the bi-county gang task forces, and the bi-county car jacking task forces?

https://mocoshow.com/blog/councilmember-will-jawando-to-host-panel-addressing-rising-violent-crime-with-d-c-councilmember-robert-white-and-prince-georges-county-council-chair-calvin-hawkins/?fbclid=IwAR2Ljn2Q9hil0unMIjiCTxFdkfKVMHUa2Dv2Eb_7-SsAuROGrD6OQAQcgRI

[Anonymous]

We’re you expecting more from him? All show, no substance.

[Anonymous]

Jawando exasperates me. He doesn't seem to have any relevant experience for his position at all so he just flounders around. I don't understand why we can't get some intelligent retired people to run for office in this county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re you expecting more from him? All show, no substance.

I suppose. It’s truly insulting to anyone who’s been a victim of violence.

[Anonymous]

I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

[Anonymous]

What we need to do in the face of violent crime is obviously to keep throwing money at programs , wringing our hands about actually arresting or prosecuting violent criminal perpetrators, but to continue focusing on learning “the root causes of crime”, which somehow we haven’t been able to do over the last 2,000 years or so. Since we’re in a time of defunding the police, and unwillingness to arrest because it breaks up families and all the rest, I’m sure we’ll come up with a strong deterrent soon and all will right itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

Shouldn’t we arrest a violent person regardless of their skin color? If there is a white rapist out there lock em up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

You are being sarcastic, right? You do know black boys and black men are disproportionately the victims of violence. And that black high school boys are less safe at schools than they are in the community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What we need to do in the face of violent crime is obviously to keep throwing money at programs , wringing our hands about actually arresting or prosecuting violent criminal perpetrators, but to continue focusing on learning “the root causes of crime”, which somehow we haven’t been able to do over the last 2,000 years or so. Since we’re in a time of defunding the police, and unwillingness to arrest because it breaks up families and all the rest, I’m sure we’ll come up with a strong deterrent soon and all will right itself.

When you say "keep throwing money at programs" are you talking about police?

Maybe you aren't familiar with the root causes of crime, but that doesn't mean that it isn't already understood. Like poverty. It's not rocket science. That is a problem we're doing to ourselves, and overemphasis on policing makes that worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

or we could incarcerate violent felons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

or we could incarcerate violent felons

We can also work on creating conditions where there are fewer violent felons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

or we could incarcerate violent felons

We can also work on creating conditions where there are fewer violent felons.

Any ideas? The cities with the most progressive ideas seem to have made no headway

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

or we could incarcerate violent felons

We can also work on creating conditions where there are fewer violent felons.

Any ideas? The cities with the most progressive ideas seem to have made no headway

The most progressive cities still half-ass their programs. Take Muriel Bowser in DC. Her "progressive" ideas look nice at the surface but don't fundamentally change anything.

I also think it needs commitment over decades, not a six month or one year trial then declaring it a failure.

Kids are harmed in so many ways by poverty. This is a long game that we need to play, no silver bullets.

[Anonymous]

Did they pass around a legal blunt as well? That might have sparked some new ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do not see what is wrong with our current approach.

We need to stop the wholesale incarceration of young black men, in order to break the school-to-prison pipeline.

or we could incarcerate violent felons

We can also work on creating conditions where there are fewer violent felons.

Yes but his forum has none of the experts who know how to do this. That’s my whole point