Over 50 Cars Broken Into in Woodley Park

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Anonymous wrote:Wrap around services are great to prevent crime, but carjackers, thieves, and those who commit gun crimes need to be prosecuted and imprisoned. How can you justify putting these people back on tbe streets?

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Do you like having a gun held in your face? What is wrong with these people who don’t want any consequences for anything?

How did you learn not to commit crime? Was it by being repeatedly incarcerated? Why are you treating these people differently than how you were treated? Society failed these people and you want to punish them because society failed them?

From discipline in the home and discipline in the school.

Time tested, as is removing violent people for greater public good.

Ah, the stick solution, never the carrot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

Again, makes it clear: public safety is going to be held hostage as a way of pressuring ordinary people to agree to massive redistribution programs. Standard tactic of the left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Truth. I know a LOT of S African expats. They love S Africa. It's beautiful. But they don't want to live in a beautiful prison. DC is beautiful. Beautiful tree canopy, memorials etc. Except the criminals roam free and law abiding citizens are prisoners. This is wrong.

PP, you clearly are delusional to think that you live in a prison. Have you ever seen documentaries around the world concerning prison conditions? FFS, most people on average are not victims of crime. But whether living in an American city, European city, Canadian city or Australian city, you must be self aware. It's not even cold enough to be walking around with a $1,000 Canada Goose or other material goods. If being robbed, remember you have insurance, give up the materials and walk away.

This is easy to say. During one of the recent car jackings a young African American father of two children gave up his keys but was still shot to death. Also, no one has insurance for a Canadian Goose jacket.

There's no reason to have more than a basic jacket. Your excess wealth should go back into the community to support the citizens that little or even nothing. Instead of being seen as a criminal target, you will be viewed as a fellow contributing member of society.

So what's your definition of a basic jacket? $50, $100? Free, aka, stolen from someone. What about jeans? Sneakers? Do you want to mandate what people can spend on those things to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wrap around services are great to prevent crime, but carjackers, thieves, and those who commit gun crimes need to be prosecuted and imprisoned. How can you justify putting these people back on tbe streets?

+100

Do you like having a gun held in your face? What is wrong with these people who don’t want any consequences for anything?

How did you learn not to commit crime? Was it by being repeatedly incarcerated? Why are you treating these people differently than how you were treated? Society failed these people and you want to punish them because society failed them?

From discipline in the home and discipline in the school.

Time tested, as is removing violent people for greater public good.

Ah, the stick solution, never the carrot.

Carrot up the azz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you think people who never had a stable family or went to school regularly would be magically law abiding citizens? They clearly are desperate people who should know better but aren't able to because they gave nothing. Shooting them or jailing them doesn't resolve the problem. It's a societal thing where the gap between rich and poor are too great. Unless you put in community and neighborhood programs just strict law enforcement will drive crime to another part of the city but doesn't rid crime. People who have nothing have nothing to lose.

How many more community programs do you want? Schools offer mental health, meals, healthcare, teach kids to ride bikes, Dc has summer youth employment, safe passage people to get home from school safely, free after and beforecare for low income residents. My kid’s title 1 school offers parenting sessions to deal with behavior/other issues. The district has a robust social welfare program, you can’t get evicted in DC, you don’t have to pay traffic or parking tickets, you don’t have to pay for metro or buses, etc.

+1000. DC would be smart to look at cutting some of these programs rather than adding to them. Apartment owners don't even want top rent their apartments anymore because you can never kick out a tenant!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wrap around services are great to prevent crime, but carjackers, thieves, and those who commit gun crimes need to be prosecuted and imprisoned. How can you justify putting these people back on tbe streets?

+100

Do you like having a gun held in your face? What is wrong with these people who don’t want any consequences for anything?

How did you learn not to commit crime? Was it by being repeatedly incarcerated? Why are you treating these people differently than how you were treated? Society failed these people and you want to punish them because society failed them?

From discipline in the home and discipline in the school.

Time tested, as is removing violent people for greater public good.

Ah, the stick solution, never the carrot.

Been throwing carrots at it for the past few years.

[Anonymous]

I’m actually kind of looking forward to gating my community. Thanks for the excuse

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m actually kind of looking forward to gating my community. Thanks for the excuse

Any public streets in your community?

[Anonymous]

Not all

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The solution is “both/and”. We mete out punishments for criminal activity and we invest in evidence-based services that reduce criminal behavior.

Sadly, we’re currently failing on both fronts.

What are the specific services we are not currently providing in DC?

[Anonymous]

Gated communities and private security like in South Africa and parts of South America.

[Anonymous]

And St Louis etc.

[Anonymous]

You asked for it, you got it. No interest in the local gvt ever again, they don’t listen. Just rent a cop and gate.

[Anonymous]

For millenia we've had poverty and dirt poor families. Families could barely scrape together food for the week and clothing and shoes for the winter. The poverty stricken families were not shooting people and stealing other's transportation. They were going to jobs supporting the family and going to night school to better themselves.