Number of D.C. children shot and killed this year is up 133 percent so far this year

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Anonymous wrote:The country is awash in cheap, straw-purchased firearms. It’s only accelerated over the last 5 years.

The more guns = the more deaths.

Ding ding ding!

Yes, Charles Allen sucks. But the guns are the problem.

I think the bigger problem is that our elected officials don't care about crime. They're actually radically reducing penalties for most crimes.

Exactly. If there are actual consequences to using guns in connection with crime, there will be less of that. DC's city council is full of idiots who believe in magical thinking. Charles Allen is a travesty. Probably a nice enough guy if he's your neighbor, but an absolute travesty as a public official. He should not be in his position.

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Anonymous wrote:This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc. But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way. There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.

Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar.

That would be like have 20 police officers in the entire city paid at minimum wage with 1980s equipment and saying "see? We've tried policing, and golly, it's just not effective!"

We're just barely starting with violence interrupters in a limited manner and they do not appear to be funded anywhere near where DC police officers are funded even though they go into much more dangerous situations unprotected.

They aren’t going into dangerous situations in the way police officers are, nor should they be funded in the way police departments are. When someone gets held up at gun point they aren’t calling a violence interruptor, FFS. But keep thinking demonizing the police and wanting violence interruptors used in their place is the answer to crime, and don’t be shocked when the Republican party makes huge gains tomorrow in part because people are over the progressive approach to crime.

Going to meet with people who are likely to commit violence is not dangerous? Please, come closer to reality. Have you ever met these people??

Having worked in law enforcement for years (I’m not a police officer) yes, I have, and “meeting” people who are likely to commit violence isn’t doing jack to prevent crime, as evidenced by the current state of the District. When young people think they are untouchable because they have never been held accountable for their behavior/criminal activity, you think some violence interruptor is going to miraculously make them see the error of their ways? Come on, maybe you need to get in touch with reality.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:The country is awash in cheap, straw-purchased firearms. It’s only accelerated over the last 5 years.

The more guns = the more deaths.

“Cheap?”

Have you been gun shopping lately?

“Cheap” guns went away around the time of the Gun Control Act of 1968. As a consequence, the quality of firearms used by criminals typically improved. Nobody could’ve seen that coming, right?

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Anonymous wrote:14 children killed so far this year. That's on top of 76 non-fatal shootings of juveniles. We're now way above prepandemic levels.

Nothing that throwing more money at the police can't solve

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This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

So we shouldn't care about children being murdered? Gotcha.

Also, if the number of murders (226 last year) is too small for you to care about, you must really not care about the number of people killed last year in traffic accidents because those are way, way more rare (40).

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

But yet they are tragically high for the people whose children were slaughtered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

Maybe we need to get those kids bicycles so someone will care.

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Gee I wonder how we could solve gun violence in a country with 393 million guns? Think think think..................

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

Maybe among you and.your people. Speak for yourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

Maybe we need to get those kids bicycles so someone will care.

I guarantee if those kids were a different race and getting mowed down in bike lanes, the response would be far, far different.

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Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

Maybe we need to get those kids bicycles so someone will care.

I guarantee if those kids were a different race and getting mowed down in bike lanes, the response would be far, far different.

I don't know? Are the kids on bikes carrying around guns, dealing drugs, members of a gang, and committing felonies on a regular basis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This post and the article is useless.

Compare it over many years not just 3.

Nobody wants to hear this but murders are still historically low.

3 people have died on bicycles this year on DC streets, countless stories are written, there a vigils and for that the city is committed to do whatever it takes to get that number to zero.

Hundreds of of kids are dying and the response is a shrug and a statement, “could be worse”. Wow.

Maybe we need to get those kids bicycles so someone will care.

I guarantee if those kids were a different race and getting mowed down in bike lanes, the response would be far, far different.

I don't know? Are the kids on bikes carrying around guns, dealing drugs, members of a gang, and committing felonies on a regular basis?

yikes. anti-black racism is alive and well here on dcum.