Let Your Voice Be Heard re: Action of DC Council

[Anonymous]

This is telling ime

[Anonymous]

In a year of soaring violent crime in DC

[Anonymous]

It seems to have been done in an irregular manner so as to avoid an opportunity for public comment.

[Anonymous]

Another lax on crime piece of the "criminal justice ecosystem"

[Anonymous]

Contact information for all DC Council members can be found at link. Let your thoughts be known, not just to your CM but all of them. Why shouldn't victims or their families have a voice on the Sentencing Commission? When there is already one extreme position represented, what is the value of adding a recently released murderer, who served 20 years for a heinous crime? Most members are judges (many former public defenders) and lawyers, what was the process that elevated this particular man's voice?

As the mayor says, sunlight is necessary for the criminal justice ecosystem to work properly. Let's have some transparency re: this and why the public notice did not occur until AFTER the hearings. Let's walk this back and let the voices of the community play a role as the process is designed to allow, if rules are followed. The lawlessness seems to have spread to legislative procedure.

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

[Anonymous]

^typo, the man served 27 years for murder. We all know how difficult it is to get that type of lengthy sentence. Why should HIS voice be elevated re: criminal sentences and not that of victims or families of victims?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^typo, the man served 27 years for murder. We all know how difficult it is to get that type of lengthy sentence. Why should HIS voice be elevated re: criminal sentences and not that of victims or families of victims?

This might be the only employment he can get with a felony record. Jobs program.

[Anonymous]

We have a noncitizen and a convicted murderer serving as ANCs.


Tell me how this ends.

[Anonymous]

Meh--- OP!

This person served their time and paid their debt to society. I am more concerned about the non-citizen, they should be replaced with someone from the victim perspective.

[Anonymous]

Yawn

[Anonymous]

The Democratic way. When will the voters learn.

[Anonymous]

Take a few minutes to comment, the hearing record is open until 1/3/24

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take a few minutes to comment, the hearing record is open until 1/3/24

How do you add a.comment? Or contact the council directly? Yes, this is outrageous

[Anonymous]

This is why almost the entirety of the Council needs to be voted out. The members now can tell which way the wind is blowing, so you have people like Frumin suddenly saying he's really concerned about crime (while still doing nothing about it), Mendelson trying make up pitiful excuses for saying "there is no crime crisis" just a few years back, you have the Janeese Lewis-George supporters in the other thread saying it's slander to say she hasn't been tough on crime, etc.

But as soon as the Council thinks no one is looking, they're trying to put a convicted murderer on the sentencing commission. Because that's who they are. We got into this mess because D.C. voters weren't looking that closely when things were going alright to bad. Now things have fallen off a click, and the Council is trying to change its rhetoric, but it's still pushing whatever pro-crime actions it thinks it can get through. And they're going to just get worse whenever people lose attention again.

Don't fall for any of their recent rhetoric, these people need to go.

[Anonymous]

Not sure how anyone knows whether a carjacking victim would be better than this convicted murderer. Lots of crime victims are SJWs and believe that whomever committed the crime against them should do no jail time and just needs to be told not to do it again. This convicted murdered may be awful also, but we really don't have enough information to make a conclusion.