Ward 3 Crime Meeting w/CM Frumin, USAO Graves and AG Schwab 1/17 6pm Cleveland Park library
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Okay, so you're just throwing things at a wall and hoping something sticks in order to try and rationalize this very sad instance of an 18 year old losing their sh**t at a party and shooting another young person. Again, this was an incredibly sad situation, but the rush to blame our CMs whenever there is a shooting is so misplaced. The situation was awful. Guns allow people who are prone to violence and escalation to create tragedies. I really don't know what else there is to say about it. |
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True. 274 murders this year in D.C. Only one outraged Frumin enough that he tweeted about it - the car thief that was shot by a resident when he and a group of others got into a confrontation with the resident while stealing cars at 4 am: https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1612821886580449281 Not the child murdered in her car with her family on mothers day. Not the hard working kid sensely murdered walking to his job. Not the woman stabbed to death by a violent felon that a judge said was too dangerous to release, but got released anyway. Not the hard working construction worker who was murdered walking to work in the morning. People should ask Frumin why a resident shooting a car thief is the only murder out of the hundreds that bothered them and that they called for action on. Also, people joke about pickleball, but it’s true. Looking at his budget requests, he brags about asking for 5 new pickleball courts, but didn’t bother trying to get anything to combat crime: https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1626257299797946368 |
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The laws re: juvenile crime (which likely pertained to the shooter - should he have been off the street? did he get services? was he compliant? should he have been monitored?) should be revisited. And vigorous, outcome oriented oversight is warranted by Council and fed partners, respectively. The Council have deliberately weakened laws re: juveniles, and expanding the term to mean criminals in mid-20s. It has harmed public safety and it has resulted in a staggering number of shot and dead black juveniles who were not removed from the community or gotten on a better path. The "legacy" of Charles Allen needs careful scruitiny and adjustments. |
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Policies have consequences and our city leadership have pushed the policies that led to this tragedy, nearly 1000 carjackings and a murder rate not seen in 25 years. |
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We should listen to what the victim’s relative’s say, instead of trying to run defense for the failures of our city leaders: Thomas, 71, pastor of Johnson Memorial Baptist Church in Southeast Washington, said his granddaughter “had big dreams and big plans. And we had big dreams and big plans for her. And now she’s gone. And for what? Because somebody was being stupid. And this city tells these kids they can be stupid, and that nobody is going to be held accountable. It’s shameful.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/03/homicide-dc-student-college/ And you see this every single time these murders happen. The victims family and those in the community ask leaders say the city has to be tougher on crime to prevent these tragedies. People unaffected by the deaths shrug them off and say that there shouldn’t be any accountability to the massive failures from our elected leaders. |
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Four deeply poor cities and DC, one of the wealthiest big cities in the country |
Anonymous
The rush to blame is very well placed, actually. We are watching the broken windows theory being proven before our eyes. This Council has created an environment where public fencing of stolen goods is allowed. Public use of marijuana is not prosecuted. And violent criminals are released the next day. The Council has created an environment of shocking lawlessness to the point where no one is safe at any hour of the day. Professional athletes, members of congress, diplomats, or just regular folks. We’re all in danger. |
Anonymous
Well said. |
Anonymous
All of this. I get the sense he is a 1 termer and is not really invested in staying there, so, doesn't really care about constituent views. Goulet would have been better imo. And without Silverman's antics and those of other dem machine pols at the last minute, Frumin may well have lost. |
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Yet, we have the DC City Council appointing a convicted murderer to the Sentencing Commission rather than a loved one of a crime victim! Mendo then tried to hide it by publishing the public notice AFTER the hearings had been held. These people are so slippery and DO appear to value criminals over victims, over and over again. Allen even wrote to a judge on behalf of a man who had raped a mother and her elementary aged daughter. |
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That kid had REPEATEDLY been reported missing by MPD, just like this shooter was reported missing. Just like So'Fine Charles, a 14 year old girl is reported missing so often from Forest Hills that her name is recognizable. Several girls have gone missing from Cleveland Park. Kids being gone is a sign of crisis, of effective interventions being URGENT with continued oversight of child and family. Instead so often when a kid is shot or killed or shoots, their name is familiar from having been missing so often. I wonder about the truancy being so high and not effectively addressed after covid. If Relisha Rudd were to go missing today, how long would it take to even be reported by the school? |
Anonymous
| Who can enjoy pickleball when the car or bike you use to get there may be stolen while you play, the park is used for pretty open drug dealing and you may be hit by stray gunfire? |
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+1,000 And in danger in broad daylight, witnesses and even law enforcement nearby are no longer a deterrent. Even cooperative victims are being shot or stabbed and even witnesses have been shot at. A rifle sprays, doesn't take a marksman to be hit by a stray. Metro is very unsafe now, it stems from changes made by DC Council, which WMATA, VA and MD advocated AGAINST. What was safe or made you safer in the 90s has also been lost. |