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Ironically, the dozen or so white neighbors on my block who for months fashionably and dutifully sported BLM signs on their leafy yards in 2020/2021 now have the blood of hundreds of poor DC AA people on their hands. They are the thought leaders which pushed the defund movement and “reform” movement and they own the carnage it has brought. Their signs are no longer fashionable and are nowhere to be seen now. |
If you are not a criminal, owning a firearm makes your home about 28% safer than homes with no firearm. The studies asserting owning a firearm made you less safe had zero control for drug dealers, gang members, active criminals, even criminals participating in a crime when killed.
There are six to 12 crimes prevented with a firearm every year. getting sued is extremely rare. And it is better than being stabbed or shot by a criminal/ |
do look at stats for what demorphic groups commit violent crime at what per capita rates before going off the rails. |
Data says no. Most likely outcome is you will be 28% safer for having a firearm. The 2013 CDC study, looking at multiple studies, by multiple authors, using multiple methods ,found ALL established that way more crimes are prevented with firearms than committed with them. |
These boards are FULL of people denying the gigantic upswing in crime. The denial by the "there is little increase in crime" flat earthers has been going on for a couple of years and is disgusting. Homicide stats don't lie. Other crimes can be vastly undercounted due to Dc letting out on no cash bond causing victims to be frightened to report crimes for fear of retribution by criminals. But homicide is the most accurate reflection of all violent crime trends. DC has gone from 88/homicide per year to over 200. It is 220% HIGHER than it was in 2012 when we had twice as many violent offenders incarcerated and off the streets. |
| Now that Monumental Sports is complaining about crime in china town (and threatening to move the arena to NoVa), the city council and mayor will likely start to crack down on more of petty stuff in order to stop the bigger stuff later on. money talks in DC. |
| Can anyone tell me what the Mayor's plan is to address all this crime? |
The mayor has to fight the Council before she can begin to seriously fight crime. That’s the problem. The Council is packed with Democrats-in-name only socialists. These aren’t 1980’s DC Democrats. |
ITA but not in name only. "...these candidates are running the types of campaigns that will position them to lead in the fight for social and economic justice in our region...Each of these campaigns is also facing strong opposition from corporations and lobbying groups. But with your help, we know socialist candidates and initiatives with an organized, people-powered movement behind them can win. https://mdcdsa.org/endorsements/ https://mdcdsa.org/statements/2020-janeese-general/ |
So your contention is that the Mayor, and the Police Chief, are helpless to do anything about crime besides fight with the Council? That she has no responsibility on her own and no independent authority to do anything? Are you serious? |
The power of the purse is crazy, isn’t it? |
Hey! Hate has no home there.
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Oh come on. If the Mayor is helpless to take any action to fight crime on her own, and is incapable of working with the Council to do so, she should be recalled. |
Wow. My kids went to DCPS and never got that message. Nor did any of their friends. Please crawl back into your hole. |