Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
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Anonymous
I’m PP and have been robbed this year. We need the privileged to recognize they are not safe either for there to be any change. |
Anonymous
The Control Board was for financial reasons; city was bankrupting itself. Not the situation at all now. How would they justify a Control Board? |
Anonymous
But you didn’t care until it affected you. |
Anonymous
Oh sure. Their ideology messes it up, and then the National Guard should come in and clean their mess. No. Not just no. Hell, no. They wanted their cashless bail and other nonsense. Now live with it. |
Anonymous
The proposal for jury trials didn’t make a lot of sense in the current context and there were a few other provisions in the bill that were unnecessary, but characterizing it as a “weak on crime bill” when it increased various penalties and simplified the process of prosecuting many crimes is straight-up silly. Any argument that we are safer today because it didn’t pass is not well grounded in facts and logic. |
Anonymous
If true, so what? |
Anonymous
How about you put aside these ridiculous labels and focus on the actual substance? We can get a lot more done when we’re focused on tangible policy proposals than when we’re slinging insults at one another. |
Anonymous
I’ll raise you AOC, Omar, Pressley and the Fire Alarm clown. But, there are decent members on both sides who are infinitely better than what we have as a mayor and council. |
Anonymous
This is what DID work. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dc/control/controlqa.htm#:~:text=As%20its%20nickname%20suggests%2C%20the%20financial%20control%20board,hundreds%20of%20millions%20of%20dollars%20in%20federal%20aide. The CRE fiscal disaster still has not been completely felt. DC lacks control over federal prosecutors, judges and cannot shift funds to courts. Once again DC is in a dire and worsening position re: money and crime and it's beyond local officials to fix, they have no control over the key fed LE pieces. No, disagree Jeff, Republican Congresspeople are not going to give up jobs to play city administrators. They were appointed. Eleanor Holmes Norton supported the 1st control board. When she expressed concern a while back that the Council was opening the door to 2.0 I thought she was being dramatic, to be honest. Now I get that she read all the signs, again. If we don't get a control board the combo of CRE implosion, shrinking tax base and shrinking tourism is going to spiral in a way that will be very difficult to pull out of, based on finances alone. Crime is just the cherry on top, re: both finances, to be crass, and quality of life. Every month MPD shrinks, recruiting cannot keep pace with retirements and departures. It is what it is. People talk about Bowser, I'm not a huge fan, but she has NO control over CJS, not fed appointed USAO that no papered up to 67% of cases over several administrations (although both Bowser and Council WERE aware and said nothing), no control over federally appointed judges, no control over federally funded court budgets. Basic order is needed both to keep residents, attract new ones and attract tourists. Congress has both the purse and the oversight over DOJ that is needed to get the CJS functioning properly. The 67% dipped after USAO Graves was summoned to the Hill for a DC Oversight Hearing, imagine if there were regular DOJ Oversight Hearings with metrics and benchmarks? A whole generation of kids is getting shot and killed and not diverted from crime, while not attending school and gaining even basic literacy. In the 90s crime was lower during the school day, now, DC has lost control there too and is attempting to hide the truancy numbers. It's the kids who deserve a better future than this weird situation of effusive rhetoric while soaring numbers of black kids are gunned down in the street. A control board would be very newsworthy and would help re: public perception. In the 90s we did not have remote work, the CRE income was more solid. People still went downtown to work, even before the 1993 carjacking bill. Now, they may move elsewhere in DMV or elsewhere entirely. DC can't keep hemorrhaging revenue and tourist dollars without the crisis becoming dire. The 911 call center has declined from its former not great performance standard. Used to be that people called CCFR if at all possible in an emergency if you were anywhere they might come. When my kid had anaphylactic allergies, the ped suggested it, DC did not yet have epi pens in ambulances. Even Mendelson recently talked about a personal long hold for 911 and then they may send help to the wrong quadrant of the city... My prediction, now, or later, control board 2.0 is inevitable. It led to so many positives for the city and fundamentals of functioning, not to mention federal $$$. The current city government lacks the resources and the will to turn things around. The financial picture is pretty daunting and there is no real grappling with it at all by Council. Imagine if there were not the budgetary checks and balances put in place during the control board era. |
Anonymous
And plenty of NBA coaches are better than those coaching my kid’s JV team. The point is what exactly? |
Anonymous
The control board was NOT staffed by sitting members of Congress. If you were not here, read up. It also brought a lot of needed federal funds to DC, money that is urgently needed as CRE implosion is beginning to be felt. It would also send a pr signal of change to help hold and attract residents and tourists. |
Anonymous
Uh oh. Someone knows what they are talking about. |
Anonymous
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WMATA is another issue where Congress holds the purse and oversight. At a time of increasing crime within the system and stations, when they have to hire shrinking numbers of MPD for OT security, instead of having a more robust approach to safety (both crime and actual maintenance, not faked records) they recently have decided to number the lines, rather than stick with the traditional color coding and spend $$$ for re-doing all the signs. Make any of it make sense.
Safety, real and perceived, on public transit is important for RTO and tourists, both desperately needed sources of revenue. But the spending priorties don't reflect that. A shrinking MPD cannot be stretched so thin as to bolster WMATA police with planned OT (of course they should still respond to 911 calls), indefinitely. They need to get their own system in order. The fun of changing all the signs may have to wait. |
Anonymous
| This is entirely a cultural issue. The left and the right is partly to blame but morality starts in the home NO MATTER HOW POOR OR DISADVANTAGED. The state can only do so much (whether incarcerating criminals or increasing the help to disadvantaged communities). Ultimately it is the home where values are inculcated and society’s values reinforced. This is a difficult conversation but must be had because you basically have to challenge an entire culture. |
Anonymous
And the solution to that is what exactly? Taking kids away from irresponsible parents so they can be institutionalized a la Australia’s stolen generation? |