In the 90's, DC murders were over drugs, what drives current murder spree in DC ???

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Anonymous wrote:We're about 16-17 years past the serious lead contamination in DC water.

I'm not kidding -- there is good evidence that discontinuing leaded gasoline was the reason for crime rates starting to go down in the 90's. That was the first generation raised post-leaded gasoline.

Crime went down everywhere at the same time it went down in DC.

And yet leader gas was banned in 1992 in CA and 1996 in the rest of the US. The first generation lead free was just barely out of kindergarten. The crime rates probably correlate with the three strikes laws of the 1990s. But they didn't solve a problem as much as create a new deferred problem that we are still suffering with today.

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People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

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Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

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Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.

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Anonymous wrote:Different police chief.

According to the article I read, the police chief is begging for consequences that stick. I think the police have had it with the Charles Allen style adjudication. Don't think we can pin this on the police --why bother (if the youth criminals will go uncharged or released with no remediation or consequences) is a great question. Same with mental health--they are not social workers. This is a job for our Council and our judicial system to look at together. But they are focused on releasing people who committed crimes up to age 25 and non-cooperation with ICE. That's what they are choosing to focus their time on right now.

People who petition for release under that program have to have spent 15 years in jail and they have to convince a judge that they've been rehabilitated. If you have some evidence that the judges can't be trusted, tell us, but stop talking about this as if they're just letting any old person out of jail at a moment's notice. That's BS.

Check how many have PDS backgrounds.

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Anonymous wrote: You need to google why was three strikes you’re out a disaster. The laws that were implemented in the 80s, three strikes you’re out and mandatory minimums, caused a huge problem. Tons of mothers and fathers were sent to jail for petty crimes. Whole generation of kids were raised without parents.

Add to that since prisons for profit. There’s proof the prison owners kept good prisoners instead of paroling them because they were good workers in the jails. They also paroled terrible prisoners because they didn’t want to deal with them anymore. There’s a quote from the warden of one of the prisons that said I’m not proud that we don’t parole the good prisoners but who would wash our cars. cars

Theres a huge difference between 3 strikes your out and a get out of jail free card after 15 years if you commit a major crime before 25. This on top of the exaggerated leniency to youth crime in our city (which mostly end up killing other youth).

Why are you conflating two laws. I didn’t even bring up early release. I’m talking about the ridiculousness of three strikes you’re out. Big deal you got caught with pot three times now are you going to jail, really? Do your research understand criminal laws and when and where they failed our community .

Doing research reveals three strikes/you’re out is not a thing in DC, so...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.

But they’re not committing crimes in Va.

I wonder why that is?

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Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

Yes, if you read the Post expose gun charges are routinely pled way down in DC. But residents who want to own them legally have to jump through 10 million hoops. Funny where the focus is.

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Lax laws for crime and not enough juvi prisons

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like DC is reverting back into the 90's in terms of murders. In the 90's many of the murders could be attributed to drug gang rivalries ? What is the current murder uptick in DC about ??? Is it just plain criminally insane people acting out because they have no morals or fear no consequences or think it's OK ???

474 homicides in 1990. 134 year-to-date in 2019. No, DC is not reverting back into the 1990s in terms of murders. Let's keep things in perspective.

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DC should do what Mississippi did back in the day. Reinstate the death penalty, get a portable electric chair and carry out public executions in the criminal’s local community. That would send a strong deterrent message.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like DC is reverting back into the 90's in terms of murders. In the 90's many of the murders could be attributed to drug gang rivalries ? What is the current murder uptick in DC about ??? Is it just plain criminally insane people acting out because they have no morals or fear no consequences or think it's OK ???

The existence of white people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.

But they’re not committing crimes in Va.

I wonder why that is?

Wait until Dehghani-Tafti becomes Commonwealth Attorney. Then they can kill with
Impunity and no consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.

But if guns WERE the problem, Northern VA would have just as much, if not more, crime as DC, since there are wayyyyyyyy more guns in northern VA



But that's not the case, is it? No, it isn't.


Must be SOMETHING else then, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People rarely go to jail for crimes in DC. The prosecution rates are very low.

But also ... guns. Guns are a huge f-ing problem.

I live in NoVa and there are guns and shooting ranges everywhere. They aren’t a problem here.

Where do you think they go to , to steal the guns, or buy the stolen guns from? Most are imported from VA.

But if guns WERE the problem, Northern VA would have just as much, if not more, crime as DC, since there are wayyyyyyyy more guns in northern VA

But that's not the case, is it? No, it isn't.

Must be SOMETHING else then, huh?

Nope, it's guns. Guns are the problem - not the only problem, but definitely the problem.