Average murder suspect in DC has only been arrested 11 times prior

[Anonymous]

If you call it “gun violence” instead of murder, then people will care. Don’t ask me why the label matters so much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you call it “gun violence” instead of murder, then people will care. Don’t ask me why the label matters so much

Oh just stop. You're ridiculous. People care about local crime and on a federal level, also care about gun crime. Tunnel vision doesn't help anyone on any side of this equation, on the left or the right.

[Anonymous]

I work with someone whose boyfriend is in prison for 100+ years for murdering someone and injuring 2 others with a gun in DC. She truly believes that his sentence is too harsh, that 15 years is "enough" time for that crime. This is your voter/jury pool.

[Anonymous]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/ousted-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-urges-dems-to-speak-the-truth-on-violent-crime-amid-spike/ar-AA1aa9uj

[Anonymous]

The current approach re: juveniles does not seem to be working.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/teens-charged-13-robberies-5-hours-northwest-dc/65-cb75730a-f137-4b43-b595-98010881add7

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work with someone whose boyfriend is in prison for 100+ years for murdering someone and injuring 2 others with a gun in DC. She truly believes that his sentence is too harsh, that 15 years is "enough" time for that crime. This is your voter/jury pool.

Wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work with someone whose boyfriend is in prison for 100+ years for murdering someone and injuring 2 others with a gun in DC. She truly believes that his sentence is too harsh, that 15 years is "enough" time for that crime. This is your voter/jury pool.

There are all sorts of crime I feel one can justify perhaps reducing sentences or punishments, but intentionally erasing someone from existence, taking away everything they are and will be, it is different than everything else. I'd probably be a lot more harsh than most.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Move along folks, nothing to see here:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/verify-homicide-suspects-prior-arrests/65-a66c3b04-a303-4b33-90b1-f94f698e1492

I guess this is the type of progress the city council and mayor have been after. Murder suspects can get arrested 11 times before murdering someone, as opposed to 5 times 20 years earlier. Looks like the city just needs to tolerate a lot more crime before they're allowed to lock up violent criminals who end up murdering people.

Progress? DC political leadership is as progressive as it gets!

Here are the results of your progressive, democrat, “defund the police / blm” policies”:

- more innocent victims (and the victims are predominantly female, and BIPOC).

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think what it says is if you want to stop the cycle of violence in DC, you have to work harder on kids. Those of us who work in schools know that you can see the writing on the wall in the early grades. Violence as a way of life gets passed down in families and in neighborhoods. People focus on the cost of interventions but a lifetime of trials and incarceration is the most expensive, to say nothing of victims. The only way to fix it is to work harder on intervening with kids. Once a kid is a teen who’s shot someone, I think it’s much harder. Families, or those in families who care, often try by relocating the kid out of state, which is semi-effective. But they often just come back.

I agree 100%, but how do you break what is a cultural norm in some families/communities?

One of the many lessons presented accurately in The Wire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think what it says is if you want to stop the cycle of violence in DC, you have to work harder on kids. Those of us who work in schools know that you can see the writing on the wall in the early grades. Violence as a way of life gets passed down in families and in neighborhoods. People focus on the cost of interventions but a lifetime of trials and incarceration is the most expensive, to say nothing of victims. The only way to fix it is to work harder on intervening with kids. Once a kid is a teen who’s shot someone, I think it’s much harder. Families, or those in families who care, often try by relocating the kid out of state, which is semi-effective. But they often just come back.

I agree 100%, but how do you break what is a cultural norm in some families/communities?

You certainly won't ever break it by normalizing it and giving it a blind eye.