In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

Moody's changed DC's credit rating outlook from stable to negative today. Doesn't seem as if we're gonna be able to afford either of those things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Pretty weak proposals. Don’t see how it will make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Narrators voice: “In retrospect keeping the kids out of school for two years and convincing them they’re owed reparations was a bad idea.”

When are these junior street thugs going to pay reparations to their victim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Decades of progress erased overnight. Will probably take 20-25 years again for improvement and there’s no way we’ve hit rock bottom yet.

These folks seem completely incapable of changing course. Every thing that they try to do is more pathetic than the last: dashcams, airtags, mace, etc.

These folks are supposed to be liberals and their response to crime is either ideological, so you could say that it is libertarian to the extreme (ie “you are on your own”), or we can just come to the conclusion that they don’t know what to do or cannot do what they know they are supposed to do because of fear of personal embarrassment of admitting a mistake. There is no reason for them to change and DC politicians never voluntarily quit (unless they are indicted), so every one of these folks will be around indefinitely and it will be necessary to either defeat them in a primary or wait for them to retire. At this rate, it is going to take at least one full generation for DC to get political leaders that can admit there is a problem and propose time-honored solutions that work. That will be rock bottom. Following that, as we saw, it will take another generation to see results. Who has 30-40 years of their life to waste of this?

The term you are looking for here is "Anachro-Tyranny." Criminals can do whatever they want, but if you attempt to defend yourself then the full weight of the law will come down on you. Being merely "on your own" would be a drastic improvement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

They had hoped that the new DCPS school year would stem the summer crime wave, as it had previously. But the joke is on them (and us) because these kids have just stopped going to school to enter the year round criminal workforce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

They had hoped that the new DCPS school year would stem the summer crime wave, as it had previously. But the joke is on them (and us) because these kids have just stopped going to school to enter the year round criminal workforce.

So who says that DC is failing in vocational education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

Moody's changed DC's credit rating outlook from stable to negative today. Doesn't seem as if we're gonna be able to afford either of those things.

Holy cow. This is a big deal and should be its own thread. It’s notable that they downgraded DC but not VA or MD.

I’m practical terms what this means for DC is that everything they want to do has just gotten more expensive to finance and as a result the wish list needs to get smaller or taxes need to get higher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

They had hoped that the new DCPS school year would stem the summer crime wave, as it had previously. But the joke is on them (and us) because these kids have just stopped going to school to enter the year round criminal workforce.

I laughed but these are all facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Pretty weak proposals. Don’t see how it will make a difference.

Again, let’s be clear, these proposals are not intended to make a difference. They are intended to pretend that they are trying. In order to actually make a difference, DC political leaders will need to admit they were wrong and embrace the very pro-active policing strategies that they have eschewed, including aggressive use of Terry stops, undercover work/vice squads, and aggressive prosecution of even minor offenses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Pretty weak proposals. Don’t see how it will make a difference.

Again, let’s be clear, these proposals are not intended to make a difference. They are intended to pretend that they are trying. In order to actually make a difference, DC political leaders will need to admit they were wrong and embrace the very pro-active policing strategies that they have eschewed, including aggressive use of Terry stops, undercover work/vice squads, and aggressive prosecution of even minor offenses.

Good point. We are completely fcked when it comes to crime. It will get even worse before the 30 year slog of slow improvement can even begin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

Moody's changed DC's credit rating outlook from stable to negative today. Doesn't seem as if we're gonna be able to afford either of those things.

Holy cow. This is a big deal and should be its own thread. It’s notable that they downgraded DC but not VA or MD.

I’m practical terms what this means for DC is that everything they want to do has just gotten more expensive to finance and as a result the wish list needs to get smaller or taxes need to get higher.

Cool. So let’s drop $10 million on bike lanes that 100 people want but 150 businesses owners say will ruin them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

Moody's changed DC's credit rating outlook from stable to negative today. Doesn't seem as if we're gonna be able to afford either of those things.

Holy cow. This is a big deal and should be its own thread. It’s notable that they downgraded DC but not VA or MD.

I’m practical terms what this means for DC is that everything they want to do has just gotten more expensive to finance and as a result the wish list needs to get smaller or taxes need to get higher.

Cool. So let’s drop $10 million on bike lanes that 100 people want but 150 businesses owners say will ruin them.

It’s not $10 million. It’s $10 million in principal and $10 million in interest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

They had hoped that the new DCPS school year would stem the summer crime wave, as it had previously. But the joke is on them (and us) because these kids have just stopped going to school to enter the year round criminal workforce.

So who says that DC is failing in vocational education?

And a lot of these 13 and 14 year old armed carjackers and stickup kids are being groomed and coached by adults and older kids, so there's even an organized apprenticeship program. /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

Moody's changed DC's credit rating outlook from stable to negative today. Doesn't seem as if we're gonna be able to afford either of those things.

Holy cow. This is a big deal and should be its own thread. It’s notable that they downgraded DC but not VA or MD.

I’m practical terms what this means for DC is that everything they want to do has just gotten more expensive to finance and as a result the wish list needs to get smaller or taxes need to get higher.

Cool. So let’s drop $10 million on bike lanes that 100 people want but 150 businesses owners say will ruin them.

There is absolutely no way that bike lanes will ruin 150 businesses. Knock it off with the hyperbole.

[Anonymous]