Big story in WSJ on violent crime in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

Neither the USA nor the AG report out those numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/171c5me/comment/k3ps1c5/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/171c5me/comment/k3ps1c5/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

Neither the USA nor the AG report out those numbers.

MPD should know what those numbers are. Maybe they should start publishing them to shame the prosecutors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/171c5me/comment/k3ps1c5/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

It is gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/171c5me/comment/k3ps1c5/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

DC needs to come to grips with the reality that there is no longer an educational path for thousands of teen AA kids. An already uphill battle was completely derailed during the ill advised school shutdowns. Truancy rates are through the roof. No amount of tutoring or enrichment will get these kids anywhere near earning a diploma worth the paper it is written on. These kids need to be immediately identified and put on a vocational track. Otherwise they will have no alternative to crime to provide for themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.


DC needs to come to grips with the reality that there is no longer an educational path for thousands of teen AA kids. An already uphill battle was completely derailed during the ill advised school shutdowns. Truancy rates are through the roof. No amount of tutoring or enrichment will get these kids anywhere near earning a diploma worth the paper it is written on. These kids need to be immediately identified and put on a vocational track. Otherwise they will have

no alternative to crime to provide for themselves.

This. Unfortunately, in addition to the points noted above, DCPS bought into the "Success=College" fallacy of the No-Child-Left-Behind Act. DC has far, far less in the way of vocational training than it should, though that is starting to improve. However, vocational training provides the "hard" skills---what is also missing is "soft" skills training for kids who have never (a) seen the adults around them regularly working successfully; (b) have never had the social training to understand how one needs to comport themselves in a work environment.

[Anonymous]

Shocked this “journalism” made it past Al Jazeera editors. https://x.com/MariaBelen_Fdez/status/1710984979491000375?s=20

“In addition, the gentrification that has come to define the Washington, DC area is a sinister form of racism cast as development.”
…
“As any student of the crack epidemic knows, the powers that be in the US consciously utilised the drug to subjugate Black communities.”
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“As Washington, DC remains on track to clock its deadliest year in more than two decades, it is a fitting microcosm of a general state of emergency in the US, where the systemic devotion to racist capitalism trumps the professed right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shocked this “journalism” made it past Al Jazeera editors. https://x.com/MariaBelen_Fdez/status/1710984979491000375?s=20

“In addition, the gentrification that has come to define the Washington, DC area is a sinister form of racism cast as development.”
…
“As any student of the crack epidemic knows, the powers that be in the US consciously utilised the drug to subjugate Black communities.”
…
“As Washington, DC remains on track to clock its deadliest year in more than two decades, it is a fitting microcosm of a general state of emergency in the US, where the systemic devotion to racist capitalism trumps the professed right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.”

Sounds about right to me. Slightly off question topic, does anyone know what Bowser was doing before she was an ANC? Seems like the internet was scrubbed off all mention. Was she always connected to developers or did it happen naturally?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shocked this “journalism” made it past Al Jazeera editors. https://x.com/MariaBelen_Fdez/status/1710984979491000375?s=20

“In addition, the gentrification that has come to define the Washington, DC area is a sinister form of racism cast as development.”
…
“As any student of the crack epidemic knows, the powers that be in the US consciously utilised the drug to subjugate Black communities.”
…
“As Washington, DC remains on track to clock its deadliest year in more than two decades, it is a fitting microcosm of a general state of emergency in the US, where the systemic devotion to racist capitalism trumps the professed right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.”

Sounds about right to me. Slightly off question topic, does anyone know what Bowser was doing before she was an ANC? Seems like the internet was scrubbed off all mention. Was she always connected to developers or did it happen naturally?

She worked for Montgomery County, MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shocked this “journalism” made it past Al Jazeera editors. https://x.com/MariaBelen_Fdez/status/1710984979491000375?s=20

“In addition, the gentrification that has come to define the Washington, DC area is a sinister form of racism cast as development.”
…
“As any student of the crack epidemic knows, the powers that be in the US consciously utilised the drug to subjugate Black communities.”
…
“As Washington, DC remains on track to clock its deadliest year in more than two decades, it is a fitting microcosm of a general state of emergency in the US, where the systemic devotion to racist capitalism trumps the professed right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.”

Sounds about right to me. Slightly off question topic, does anyone know what Bowser was doing before she was an ANC? Seems like the internet was scrubbed off all mention. Was she always connected to developers or did it happen naturally?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

I don’t think anyone disputes the AG declines to prosecute 67 percent of arrests

After being summoned to the Hill for a scolding that rate may have dipped to 64%. Congress is requiring USAO to report more data. AG is a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The story says one issue specific to DC is that our attorney general is elected, not appointed, and that our attorney general refuses to prosecute the vast majority of arrests made by the cops

can you please post the raw data of AG prosecutions vs AG denial of prosecutions? Or let me know where to get it for free? Thx.

Neither the USA nor the AG report out those numbers.

MPD should know what those numbers are. Maybe they should start publishing them to shame the prosecutors.

Politicians should be exercising oversight, the numbers were documented in annual reports from 2018 onward, signed by Bowser admin and sent to Council. Where were the hearings? Interviews with media? Asking Congress to exercise oversight over DOJ USAO and staff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/washdc/comments/171c5me/comment/k3ps1c5/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Thank you for posting a link to the article. I was most disturbed by the 12 year old who said one of his goals was just to survive to adulthood.

It pisses me off to no end that there is this massive crisis happening with young kids dying every day and many others spending their days contemplating their mortality while nothing is done to protect them from the violence. Instead, what is getting prioritized are dead dogs, bike lanes, ebike vouchers.

Apparently the important stakeholders in this city are concerned that their dog could’ve died or their kid could’ve been the one that got hit by a car, but are not so concerned about the kids who spend their days worrying about dodging bullets.

DC needs to come to grips with the reality that there is no longer an educational path for thousands of teen AA kids. An already uphill battle was completely derailed during the ill advised school shutdowns. Truancy rates are through the roof. No amount of tutoring or enrichment will get these kids anywhere near earning a diploma worth the paper it is written on. These kids need to be immediately identified and put on a vocational track. Otherwise they will have no alternative to crime to provide for themselves.

THIS. And they have to be gotten back in schools for that to work. That truancy was not a HUGE focus of Bowser for this school year was shocking to me, esp with a lot of violent crime committed by juveniles during the school day last year, or when schools were delayed. The human toll on individuals is unacceptable and the societal toll of the status quo is horrific.

[Anonymous]

^ gotten back into regular schools or alternative voc tech programs and DC needs to greatly invest in expanding those.