I'm tired of the complaint threads about crime in DC. Let's take action!

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all just trying to restart the school-to-prison pipeline for Black kids.

To be fair, certain kids have started it themselves... by murdering and carjacking people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was bad in the early 90s, and then the city voted Tony Williams in. He was practical and smart. We need to vote out people on the council and ANCs who pretend crime is not an issue. Need Tony Williams 2.0

This x 100!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Y’all just trying to restart the school-to-prison pipeline for Black kids.

As the admonition goes, to avoid doing the time don’t do the crime!

[Anonymous]

This problem can’t be solved through politics or policing. I just witnessed a group of teens coming out of a CVS pockets full of soda and chips, laughing their butt off. These were middle class kids (in no DC), all thinking it was soooooo funny. How do we solve that? It’s not policing. I don’t even think parenting. It’s as if everyone has lost the ability to live in a society where THINGS MATTER. It’s all just a joke to these kids. How do we get them to care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This problem can’t be solved through politics or policing. I just witnessed a group of teens coming out of a CVS pockets full of soda and chips, laughing their butt off. These were middle class kids (in no DC), all thinking it was soooooo funny. How do we solve that? It’s not policing. I don’t even think parenting. It’s as if everyone has lost the ability to live in a society where THINGS MATTER. It’s all just a joke to these kids. How do we get them to care?

By closing the stores in their neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Welfare reform - start enforcing the time limits like almost every state does

Stop building luxury high rises in neighborhoods where the existing residents couldn’t afford the rent. Instead build smaller buildings that existing residents could afford with a small stretch

Mandatory reading and math tutoring for high school students to ensure that students graduate high school being able to read and do basic math. Also provide dyslexia screening in all schools at regular intervals.

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This problem can’t be solved through politics or policing. I just witnessed a group of teens coming out of a CVS pockets full of soda and chips, laughing their butt off. These were middle class kids (in no DC), all thinking it was soooooo funny. How do we solve that? It’s not policing. I don’t even think parenting. It’s as if everyone has lost the ability to live in a society where THINGS MATTER. It’s all just a joke to these kids. How do we get them to care?

By bringing back real consequences. Why would these kids care if they get to steal their cake and eat it too?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure how this is fixable in the current environment
https://twitter.com/MusserRyan/status/1716093626315415728

Unreal. That needs to be sent straight to the news investigation. People die when 911 isn't answered.

It’s honestly scary. The city has given up and there is no capacity or competence to perform basic state functions.

The only things that the mayor or council seem willing to do is shovel money to favored NGOs and companies or create new high paid government positions for “coordination”.

No one is willing to commit to just make basic government functions work for residents unless someone else can make a buck off it.

"If DC had statehood they would finally have the resources to address these issues."

I agree that our prosecution system is complicated, with the federal/local split. And that impacts the crime we are seeing. I am trying to figure out who is responsible for the chronic undercharging of gun crimes. The Feds or us or both. Other than that, we are over resourced. We are just dumb with how we use our resources.

Why not just start with the things fully within DCs control that are completely out of control?
- 911
- Crime Lab

Before anyone worries about what the Feds is doing or not doing, DC is fully empowered to fix these things on its own without anyone help.

These are the low hanging fruit and it’s deeply concerning that there is no will to do anything about it.

Mendelson and Bowser’s plan is to ask the Feds for a special appropriation for the crime lab.

Robert White’s plan is to fix 911 through offering hiring bonuses.

Does any of this sound serious considering how deeply dysfunctional these organizations are?

I would add allowing MPD to pull over fake plates as well as plates with plastic polarized covers.

[Anonymous]

The Mayor has proposed new legislation on crime, the ACT NOW Act: https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-announces-new-legislation-support-safe-and-effective-policing-address-retail

I called Frumin's Office to express that crime is my family's #1 priority and we expect him to support crime prevention and consequences. This includes the Mayor's Act, Pinto's Act and any others that address crime.

I hope everyone else who feels concerned by this crime wave can contact their Councilmembers. You can click through to the Council Members below. I usually call the general contact number for each, which goes to constituent services --

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Mayor has proposed new legislation on crime, the ACT NOW Act: https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-announces-new-legislation-support-safe-and-effective-policing-address-retail

I called Frumin's Office to express that crime is my family's #1 priority and we expect him to support crime prevention and consequences. This includes the Mayor's Act, Pinto's Act and any others that address crime.

I hope everyone else who feels concerned by this crime wave can contact their Councilmembers. You can click through to the Council Members below. I usually call the general contact number for each, which goes to constituent services --

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

Only in DC does making already illegal things even more … illegal’er…. count as “doing something”.

Pathetic. Residents of this city are getting exactly what they deserve. They voted for each and every one of these idiots.

[Anonymous]

Of course Janeese has a lot of problems with what Bowser is proposing….she and Allen are cochairs of the Pro Criminals Caucus on the council…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Mayor has proposed new legislation on crime, the ACT NOW Act: https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-announces-new-legislation-support-safe-and-effective-policing-address-retail

I called Frumin's Office to express that crime is my family's #1 priority and we expect him to support crime prevention and consequences. This includes the Mayor's Act, Pinto's Act and any others that address crime.

I hope everyone else who feels concerned by this crime wave can contact their Councilmembers. You can click through to the Council Members below. I usually call the general contact number for each, which goes to constituent services --

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

Only in DC does making already illegal things even more … illegal’er…. count as “doing something”.

Pathetic. Residents of this city are getting exactly what they deserve. They voted for each and every one of these idiots.

I don't really understand what you mean. Her bill gets at some things, and more need to be done. Is starting better then doing nothing? I think so.

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Anonymous wrote:We all need to get behind Councilwoman Brooke Pinto’s Secure DC initiative. Please read up on it. It is not perfect but it is a start and she is the only one taking about this.

For those of you in Ward 3- please bombard Matt Frumin’s office with emails, Tweets etc and ask him to take a stand on this bill. He has not come out in favor of it. When I have tried contacting him to ask for his opinion and support I get no response. This is unacceptable. We must push him to stop his waffling in this important issue.

Is this how to get behind it? Anything else? I agree, she is the only Councilmember even remotely acknowledging the spike in crime.

Yes this is very important. Please join the several people that I know of in my neighborhood who have committed to calling/ emailing Frumin on a daily basis until we get a response. He is ignoring us at his peril.

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Anonymous wrote:It's ludicrous that we live in such a dangerous city AND 911 is dysfunctional AND the crime lab is dysfunctional. I hope people will call as many of these folks as you can tomorrow and just let it rip!

https://dccouncil.gov/councilmembers/

As recently as 2009, the rate of adult illiteracy in D.C. was 36% overall. In some Wards, including Ward 8, the rate was well over 40%.

Gentrification helped lower that rate, by pushing the illiterate people out of DC and into PG and other parts of MD.

D.C. has a long history of being dysfunctional. You will not want to hear this (and resist accepting the reality) but it all began with home-rule.

I was born right here in DC and have long been opposed to statehood. I am just fine with Congress stepping in when things get wacky. By the way, where are they? STEP IN!

+1. We are too stupid for self governance

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We all need to get behind Councilwoman Brooke Pinto’s Secure DC initiative. Please read up on it. It is not perfect but it is a start and she is the only one taking about this.

For those of you in Ward 3- please bombard Matt Frumin’s office with emails, Tweets etc and ask him to take a stand on this bill. He has not come out in favor of it. When I have tried contacting him to ask for his opinion and support I get no response. This is unacceptable. We must push him to stop his waffling in this important issue.

Is this how to get behind it? Anything else? I agree, she is the only Councilmember even remotely acknowledging the spike in crime.

Yes this is very important. Please join the several people that I know of in my neighborhood who have committed to calling/ emailing Frumin on a daily basis until we get a response. He is ignoring us at his peril.

Thank you for this! I also called today. I named some things that concern us--such as soaring carjacking, shootings on Connecticut Ave., this is the SECOND 30 bus stabbing in what, a year?-- and said we expect him to respond to these as our rep. Back a bill, write a bill, do both! I told him the calls won't stop coming, so I agree, it's time to inundate. Ignoring constituents #1 concern does not reflect well on this guy.