The DC crime story I actually want

[Anonymous]

Where are the kids who have accidentally killed people in carjackings and in stolen cars? How did it affect them? What was their incarceration like? What do they think about the incident now? What do they say about how they got to that place?

I really, really want to read interviews and reporting with these kids and the people around them. I wish the Post or someone could make that happen.

[Anonymous]

I am sure a lot of those kids are out there on the streets with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sure a lot of those kids are out there on the streets with you.

That's fine, I just want to know more about them and hear them reflect on how they got to that moment and what has happened since. And the people around them. I think in the immediate aftermath, it's probably an impossible story to get because everyone is focused on the judicial proceedings and the kids are still kids and overwhelmed. I want to know what they think years later and what has happened since.

[Anonymous]

Research suggests that would be two or three kids (one was killed by police). So it shouldn't be a difficult story to do; however, it would read more as a profile story, not a broader crime story.

[Anonymous]

Since they suffered no appreciable consequences for their actions (I do not view being confined to juvie for 3 years with no requirement to achieve a GED or other indicia of rehabilitation as any kind of real consequence for some of these terrible murders) I would imagine that very little actual reflection has occurred. Instead of the National Guard stunt, I would much prefer the feds to take administration of the juvenile justice system away from DC. I don't know that they would be a lot better, since what we need most is incarceration of violent juveniles in facilities where there is actual rehabilitation being mandated and milestones which have to be achieved in order to be released. And that would cost a lot of money to create. But what DC has been doing definitely does NOT work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Research suggests that would be two or three kids (one was killed by police). So it shouldn't be a difficult story to do; however, it would read more as a profile story, not a broader crime story.

One just happened two days ago. Car full of teens in a stolen vehicle killed a mother, and seriously injured her child, in PG county though. We will have to see how Maryland handles.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/woman-killed-young-boy-injured-in-seat-pleasant-crash/3980586/

[Anonymous]

Please ask Emma Uber at the Washington Post.

She posted on the thread about a foreign diplomat sexually harassing kids (the ASA swim team thread), and wrote a really good article on it for WaPo. She covers crime in DC.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Research suggests that would be two or three kids (one was killed by police). So it shouldn't be a difficult story to do; however, it would read more as a profile story, not a broader crime story.

Well 2 of them are teenage girls who killed that uber driver near Nats Park.

[Anonymous]

Not directly on that, but in June the Post did a large investigation into the failures of the DC juvenile justice program.

These failures harm the kids and also indirectly everyone else in DC.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/dc-dyrs-youth-crime-rehabilitation/

"Progress at the agency — charged with setting serious and repeat teen offenders on a better path — unraveled as youth crime spiked, a Washington Post investigation found:

The agency has taken months to provide many teens with comprehensive treatment plans, violating a law that requires it to do so within 17 days of a judge sentencing a youth to its custody. In fiscal year 2022, the first after the city regained control of the agency, it completed planning for 93 percent of teenagers within three months, according to agency metrics. The next year, less than half had plans in the same time frame.

The District’s detention center, where children are held while they wait for their plans, is overcrowded. Fistfights break out often. Police come to quell the violence, while ambulances whisk away the injured. Last year, at least two teenagers tested positive for fentanyl. Since 2021, the number of dangerous incidents at the center has nearly quadrupled, meaning chaos has become a near-daily reality for the high-risk young people held there.

Children committed to DYRS while awaiting treatment should be transferred to a rehabilitation program within 30 days, the agency director has testified. But the average wait time saw a nearly fivefold increase, to 62 days in 2024 from 13 in 2018, The Post found. Some teens waited more than six months for treatment.

Many delays are caused by a shortage of beds for teens at residential programs that contract with DYRS. Bowser didn’t pursue a 2022 proposal to create a psychiatric residential treatment facility in the District, The Post found. That left DYRS relying on a dwindling number of facilities with long wait lists. They often reject D.C. youth or have been accused of serious misconduct. Last year, the agency sent 14 children to a Pennsylvania nonprofit where two staffers had been charged with sexually assaulting children — including a teen from D.C. — at one of its centers.

Because time spent waiting for placement doesn’t count toward their stay in a rehabilitative program, children have routinely been kept away from home for much longer than intended. Attorneys and teens commonly refer to this wait period as “dead time,” which advocates say can be logistically and psychologically harmful to a young person."

[Anonymous]

Incarceration? I don't think that happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are the kids who have accidentally killed people in carjackings and in stolen cars? How did it affect them? What was their incarceration like? What do they think about the incident now? What do they say about how they got to that place?

I really, really want to read interviews and reporting with these kids and the people around them. I wish the Post or someone could make that happen.

Incarceration? You must be new around here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am sure a lot of those kids are out there on the streets with you.

+1 if Brian Schwalb even charged them at all, they’re definitely out now.

[Anonymous]

They learned that in DC they can wreck your sht and ruin your life (or end it) with zero consequences and will carry that knowledge forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am sure a lot of those kids are out there on the streets with you.

That's fine, I just want to know more about them and hear them reflect on how they got to that moment and what has happened since. And the people around them. I think in the immediate aftermath, it's probably an impossible story to get because everyone is focused on the judicial proceedings and the kids are still kids and overwhelmed. I want to know what they think years later and what has happened since.

Volunteer or work with county inmates or juvenile detention. Then you can hear the stories. Be prepared to feel sad, guilty….

[Anonymous]

There is an author and documentation named Curtis Mozie who has been following the community in Shaw for 40 years and is focused on drug related violence and how it impacts everyone. He also runs a safe house for people in the community.

He has built a tremendous amount of trust and they talk openly to him. Look for his book and he has videos too. He's less polished than a Post reporter, but I don't see how they would get the same access.