We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC

[Anonymous]

Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

[Anonymous]

We are one bad mayor away from returning to the 80s

[Anonymous]

How do you propose to get the federally appointed USAO, with a no paper rate of 67%, and federally appointed judges, many of whom used to be public defenders, to do that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you propose to get the federally appointed USAO, with a no paper rate of 67%, and federally appointed judges, many of whom used to be public defenders, to do that?

Plus MPD cops who couldn't be assed to do their jobs. Many of them are not interested in making arrests.

[Anonymous]

There is a lot of blame to go around. The USAO is a fed, not local. Also, dc has not had an accredited forensics lab in YEARS. Which makes a lot of trials related to drugs very risky, better to plea down or drop case altogether. The DC council is a disaster of super leftie. The mayor actually wants to be tougher on crime but council passes the bills. Why can’t parents be held responsible for their minors committing felonies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop. Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop. Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.

So either pick between more African-American males in prison or high crime, wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop. Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.

So either pick between more African-American males in prison or high crime, wow

When the prisons are full, crime goes down.

There is no political desire to lower crime in DC. It is going to get a lot worse. Keep your fingers crossed you and your loved ones are not a victims. (You already are a victim every month paying significantly higher car insurance than you would elsewhere, eating more expensive food due to many restaurants paying 40k per month for security, etc)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you propose to get the federally appointed USAO, with a no paper rate of 67%, and federally appointed judges, many of whom used to be public defenders, to do that?

Every single judge has come from the list given from the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission. Everyone still pretending that D.C. has no say in our local judges doesn’t know how our criminal justice system works.

As for the USAO - when the Council thought US Attorney Liu didn’t prosecute enough hate crimes in 2019, they had a hearing on that which prompted her to increase prosecutions. It’s insane to pretend that the Council has more leverage with a Trump appointee than with a Biden appointee. Especially since, if you watched the oversight committee hearings, every Democrat at least claimed they supported the efforts of local D.C. leaders. And the Republicans were dragging graves for low prosecution rates.

If local leaders actually asked national leaders for help with Graves, it’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t get anywhere. But instead we just get a litany of excuses for doing nothing, as well as Council cheerleaders saying it’s fine for our elected leaders to do nothing.

They have time to do photo-ops at local parties (check out their Twitter feeds), but asking national leaders for help on the issue is too difficult? I can never understand why people go out of their way to excuse inaction and incompetence. Unless you actively want this city fail, there should be zero reason why you aren’t asking elected officials to do more.

[Anonymous]

What a novel thread. Amazing that no one has discussed this issue before. Oh wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a novel thread. Amazing that no one has discussed this issue before. Oh wait.

It city leaders have thought about this, they’ve determined to do the opposite.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop. Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.

Agree.

The USAO has always been a fed appointee, but prior to 2017, the prosecution rate was stable, under D & R appointees, at over 70%. Now the no paper rate almost equals that and has risen under Obama, Trump and Biden. Clearly there is an issue with the career prosecutors, the constant. It is a complete outlier among D cities. When there was a plan to bring more gun cases in fed court, they refused. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html Now the DC Court of appeals is making it much harder to bring gun cases. All of the dominos fall the opposite or the way you want, OP.

The zeitgeist has done a 180 from 3 strikes in the 90s and the philosophical bent of everyone from judges to politicians to prosecutors is reflecting it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you propose to get the federally appointed USAO, with a no paper rate of 67%, and federally appointed judges, many of whom used to be public defenders, to do that?

Every single judge has come from the list given from the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission. Everyone still pretending that D.C. has no say in our local judges doesn’t know how our criminal justice system works.

As for the USAO - when the Council thought US Attorney Liu didn’t prosecute enough hate crimes in 2019, they had a hearing on that which prompted her to increase prosecutions. It’s insane to pretend that the Council has more leverage with a Trump appointee than with a Biden appointee. Especially since, if you watched the oversight committee hearings, every Democrat at least claimed they supported the efforts of local D.C. leaders. And the Republicans were dragging graves for low prosecution rates.

If local leaders actually asked national leaders for help with Graves, it’s hard to imagine that they wouldn’t get anywhere. But instead we just get a litany of excuses for doing nothing, as well as Council cheerleaders saying it’s fine for our elected leaders to do nothing.

They have time to do photo-ops at local parties (check out their Twitter feeds), but asking national leaders for help on the issue is too difficult? I can never understand why people go out of their way to excuse inaction and incompetence. Unless you actively want this city fail, there should be zero reason why you aren’t asking elected officials to do more.

The DC Judicial Nomination Commission members are appointed as follows:

President of the United States (1 lawyer member)
Mayor of the District of Columbia (2 members, one must be a non-lawyer)
District of Columbia Council (1 non-lawyer member)
Chief Judge, US District Court for the District of Columbia (federal judge)
DC Bar (2 lawyer members)

As a DC resident, I only get to indirectly weigh in on 3 members of the Commission (two of the Mayor's appointees and the City Council appointee). So not even a majority of the Commission.

[Anonymous]

If that's what you want then you should move to PG. It's not going to happen in DC because no one can even agree on why crime there is so out of control. PG has a youth curfew and prosecutes criminals though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop. Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.

Actually it is not racist, it is just problem identification.