Crime Victims’ Rights Act 20th anniversary

[Anonymous]

- is today.

What is everyone in D.C. doing to expect on this landmark legislation and to empower people who have been victimized by crime?

[Anonymous]

Ideally, voting for effective law enforcement to take criminals off the street, and for candidates who support meaningful sentences to that ciminals are not sent back into society ASAP by soft on crime politicians and prosecutors.

[Anonymous]

Democrats do not support crime victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats do not support crime victims.

Sadly true. It will be a factor in the elections. Defunding law enforcement, reducing direct penalties for criminal behavior (lenient sentences) and reducing collateral consequences (no asking about criminal histories in employment applications), all paint the Democrats at large as soft on (if not actively effectively encouraging) crime. It's a real issue for many people, and at best a controversial hill on which to take a stand.

If Democrats limited themselves to trying to address root causes, like the lack of intact familiies, way too many thoughtless births by parents incapable of raising their children responsibly, cultural forces which devalue eduation which enables good employment, etc., and spent less time suggesting that criminals bear no or very little personal responsibility for their actions, the party would rightly have much broader appeal than it does.

[Anonymous]

A vote for Kamala is a vote for more crime, because she will work tirelessly to defund the police and abolish ICE.

[Anonymous]

Admitting to being a victim of urban crime makes you a racist.

I learned that right here on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Democrats care more about defunding the police than they do about victims of crime.


Ironically, victims of crime are overwhelmingly:

- BIPOC
- female
- lower SES.


Now, you should have a better understanding of what happened last night, and why.