WaPo editorial board: people are scared of crime

[Anonymous]

Where are all of the excuses that anyone who cries about the out of control crime in DC is some sort of crazy MAGA lunatic? WAPO is now saying the same thing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/10/dc-violent-crime-solutions/

So much progress in criminal justice, eh? Reap what you sow DC residents. You wanted all of these insane pols with asinine ideas for crime where there are now almost no consequences for breaking laws. Who'd have ever guessed that crime increases when there are no punishments for anti-social behavior, assaults, and carjackings? This is going to harm the DC economy as people avoid the city and take their patronage elsewhere. Who wants to visit the city if there's high risk you'll be mugged/assaulted for simply taking the metro and even if the perps are caught, nothing will happen to them? We will be taking our money elsewhere rather than spend it on the local DC economy until they have this crime issue under control.

[Anonymous]

WaPo editorial board is closet (or maybe not so closet) conservative. They aren't the liberal champions the right paints them to be.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile, the D.C. Council, and particularly the committee on the judiciary and public safety, headed by council member Charles Allen (D-Ward 6), must do its own soul-searching. The council has enacted measures — such as halting police hiring and abolishing school resource officers — and employed rhetoric that made police feel like they were the enemy, making law enforcement’s job harder and the city less safe. For example, the council barred police officers from reviewing their body-cam footage before writing their reports, which has made it more difficult to prosecute cases, as the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office predicted would happen when it recommended against the policy. Gun cases have been most impacted.

The council is now considering an overhaul of the city’s criminal code, which includes controversial proposals to eliminate carjacking as a separate crime and to reduce penalties for armed robbery and other infractions. It would also expand the Second Look Act, which allows younger people convicted of any offense to petition for a sentence reduction after serving 15 years. The expansion would allow convicts of all ages to petition for a sentence reduction.

Absolutely insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo editorial board is closet (or maybe not so closet) conservative. They aren't the liberal champions the right paints them to be.

The editorial board isn't "conservative". What they are is moderate, centrist. What most people are, who aren't extreme right or extreme left.

[Anonymous]

WaPo editorial board is notoriously conservative, but the Council is also full of batshit crazy pro-crime folks like Charles Allen. Hard to know who to side with here.

[Anonymous]

If you live in DC, as I assume most of us do, you're perfectly able to decide whether you're scared of rising crime or not, without needing a newspaper to tell you. No one who is especially worried about crime right now would be swayed by an editorial in the opposite direction, so I don't see why anyone who isn't would be convinced by this editorial.

(This is deliberately without comment on my own feelings on the matter, obviously)

[Anonymous]

Lol at the Post being closer conservatives. Even the “conservative” columnist at WaPo isn’t even a conservative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo editorial board is notoriously conservative, but the Council is also full of batshit crazy pro-crime folks like Charles Allen. Hard to know who to side with here.

Wow, you are so far left you believe the WaPo editorial board is conservative. No wonder you vote for people like Charles Allen to "find the root causes" but not actually do anything effective.

[Anonymous]

Tldr; the council members have on progressive blinders or are to scared to fight for strong measures to actually combat crime because they’d be branded unwoke. Let’s revisit this in 5 years. After they rewrite the criminal code so no one gets prosecuted and sexual assaults are hard to prove, and crime rises by orders or magnitude, maybe someone will have the cojones to run against incumbents like Allen and Nadeau.

This is a crazy idea, I know, but it’s okay to lock people up if they rob your puppy from you at gun point. Maybe you don’t need to send over to their house a “violence interruptor”, or a “restorative justice counselor” all while reducing their sentence to 3 months in jail and then they get to go to one of the 8,000 available social programs they won’t use.

I’m sick of misguided idiots who can’t see the harm they cause to law abiding citizens. They should legalize drugs and prostitution, but all this youth rehab act crap where teens get off with a slap on the wrist for muggings and attacks and car jacking? What the actual fk? It’s need to stopped. We need some justice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo editorial board is closet (or maybe not so closet) conservative. They aren't the liberal champions the right paints them to be.

... says Stalin.

[Anonymous]

I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade.

And how would you propose technological deterrents that do not disproportionately impact low income or POC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade.

And how would you propose technological deterrents that do not disproportionately impact low income or POC?

What are you proposed solutions to rising violent crime, just out of curiosity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade.

What type of technological deterrent? Like a spike strips for kids on atvs? I have no idea what you mean? Like tracking cell phones or something?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think juvenile carjackings are terrifying and a real problem, but I think it would probably work better to improve technological deterrents to doing it over putting the offenders in jail for a decade.

What type of technological deterrent? Like a spike strips for kids on atvs? I have no idea what you mean? Like tracking cell phones or something?

Same. What do you mean??

Car theft= stealing a car that's in someone's driveway. This is harder to do now because it's harder to hotwire cars.

Car jacking= someone opening your car doors while you're in the car (gas station, stop light or parking your car), forcing you out by gunpoint and driving away with your kids in the backseat. There isn't a way to deter this with technology. I mean they often have the keys and the car is running.