The Atlantic covers the out of control carjacking

[Anonymous]

The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

[Anonymous]

Democrats voted for this insanity. Why???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

It's DC and PG county (Ward 9). These are the same people. Most of PG county residents are from DC families. Once Marion Barry hired DC natives for government jobs, they used that boost to the middle class to move to PG county. They still act like they are from DC and interact with people from their old neighborhood . The carjackers are the grandkids of those newly ,middle class PG county residents.

[Anonymous]

This is a really good article. incredibly frustrating - these are violent crimes and repeat offenders with no consequences.

I know someone who was hit by a joyriding carjacker driving on local streets at 80 mph and he ended up in the hospital.

[Anonymous]

Great, well balanced article. I think the solution, which is what the article says too, is to get them out of the community.

Maybe instead of juvie, we call it "boarding school" or military school. I have a good friend who credits his life to military school. He says he'd be dead or in prison if he hadn't gone. They took him out of a bad home with no food and gave him strict teachers who cared about him. Seems like none of these parents care about their kids and would willingly send them off. In the article one says to send them to juvie even.

[Anonymous]

Violent criminals need to be treated as Adults. The age needs to be lowered to 14. Those kids will not amount to anything good. Sad, but true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great, well balanced article. I think the solution, which is what the article says too, is to get them out of the community.

Maybe instead of juvie, we call it "boarding school" or military school. I have a good friend who credits his life to military school. He says he'd be dead or in prison if he hadn't gone. They took him out of a bad home with no food and gave him strict teachers who cared about him. Seems like none of these parents care about their kids and would willingly send them off. In the article one says to send them to juvie even.

It is now understandable how penal colonies were created. Perhaps there is an island in Alaska where they can be sent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Democrats voted for this insanity. Why???

+10000!

[Anonymous]

And you wonder why car insurance is out of control? My insurance has gone up almost 100% in 5-6 years. No, it's not just because of the weather and supply chain issues. They just don't want to admit it is because of Dems' dimwitted criminal justice policies.

[Anonymous]

It's not just PG County. Happened to my neighbor in MoCo and a coworker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Violent criminals need to be treated as Adults. The age needs to be lowered to 14. Those kids will not amount to anything good. Sad, but true.

Why would we treat children as adults? this doesn't make sense to me and never has. If there needs to be more stringent consequences for violent juvenile crimes, that's fine (and I do agree we shouldn't be letting offenders off). But juveniles are not adults and should not be "treated as adults." That's messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

Wow you are such an idiot. When was the last time you were right about anything?

Carjackings and car thefts are up significantly compared with the number of incidents before the pandemic, prompting fear and calls for action in many American cities.

Motor vehicle thefts increased by 29% in 2023 compared with the previous year, while carjackings slightly decreased by 5% in nearly 40 American cities, according to the Council on Criminal Justice’s most recent crime trends report. But between 2019 and 2023, both car thefts and carjackings increased dramatically, by 105% and 93%, respectively, according to the report.


The five cities with the highest year-over-year increases in motor vehicle theft between 2022 and 2023 were Rochester, New York; Baltimore; Buffalo, New York; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Cincinnati.

https://virginiamercury.com/2024/02/15/car-thefts-and-carjackings-are-up-unreliable-data-makes-it-hard-to-pinpoint-why/


Guess the “progressive” activists have a big impact in Texas? Oh no! Your made up boogie man does not exist!

Texas ranked 10th in the nation for auto thefts per capita last year and Dallas had the fifth-highest number of car thefts among U.S. cities. More than 18,000 vehicles were stolen in Dallas in 2023, an all-time high that represents a dramatic surge from the year before and made motor vehicle theft Dallas’ most common crime in 2023, according to the Dallas Police Crimes Analytics Overview.

https://www.governing.com/urban/dallas-auto-thefts-coming-down-after-record-breaking-202


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Car thefts in Texas are the second highest in the nation

CW33, By Abbey Bowling, October 30, 2024

DALLAS (KDAF) — Over one million vehicles were stolen last year, a record-breaking number that has skyrocketed since 2019. This trend especially disadvantages Texas, which ranks second for the most stolen vehicles in the past year.

The MarketWatch Guides team analyzed the newest statistics from the Insurance Information Institute to better understand auto theft trends nationwide.

In the Lone Star State, the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land region had the fourth most car thefts out of all major US cities and saw a 7% increase from 2022 to 2023. Similarly, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington had the fifth most car thefts (34,000) out of all major cities, and this rate increased by 13% last year.

https://www.nicb.org/news/regional-news/car-thefts-texas-are-second-highest-nation

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And you wonder why car insurance is out of control? My insurance has gone up almost 100% in 5-6 years. No, it's not just because of the weather and supply chain issues. They just don't want to admit it is because of Dems' dimwitted criminal justice policies.

Gee, and here I thought it was because repairs cost more and people are driving worse.

[Anonymous]

This person doesn’t know the difference between auto theft and carjacking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

Wow you are such an idiot. When was the last time you were right about anything?

Carjackings and car thefts are up significantly compared with the number of incidents before the pandemic, prompting fear and calls for action in many American cities.

Motor vehicle thefts increased by 29% in 2023 compared with the previous year, while carjackings slightly decreased by 5% in nearly 40 American cities, according to the Council on Criminal Justice’s most recent crime trends report. But between 2019 and 2023, both car thefts and carjackings increased dramatically, by 105% and 93%, respectively, according to the report.


The five cities with the highest year-over-year increases in motor vehicle theft between 2022 and 2023 were Rochester, New York; Baltimore; Buffalo, New York; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Cincinnati.

https://virginiamercury.com/2024/02/15/car-thefts-and-carjackings-are-up-unreliable-data-makes-it-hard-to-pinpoint-why/


Guess the “progressive” activists have a big impact in Texas? Oh no! Your made up boogie man does not exist!

Texas ranked 10th in the nation for auto thefts per capita last year and Dallas had the fifth-highest number of car thefts among U.S. cities. More than 18,000 vehicles were stolen in Dallas in 2023, an all-time high that represents a dramatic surge from the year before and made motor vehicle theft Dallas’ most common crime in 2023, according to the Dallas Police Crimes Analytics Overview.

https://www.governing.com/urban/dallas-auto-thefts-coming-down-after-record-breaking-202


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Car thefts in Texas are the second highest in the nation

CW33, By Abbey Bowling, October 30, 2024

DALLAS (KDAF) — Over one million vehicles were stolen last year, a record-breaking number that has skyrocketed since 2019. This trend especially disadvantages Texas, which ranks second for the most stolen vehicles in the past year.

The MarketWatch Guides team analyzed the newest statistics from the Insurance Information Institute to better understand auto theft trends nationwide.

In the Lone Star State, the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land region had the fourth most car thefts out of all major US cities and saw a 7% increase from 2022 to 2023. Similarly, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington had the fifth most car thefts (34,000) out of all major cities, and this rate increased by 13% last year.

https://www.nicb.org/news/regional-news/car-thefts-texas-are-second-highest-nation