Ah, the equity warriors have arrived. |
need mario and luigi if we are to beat bowser |
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Bowser coasted on the trends that her predecessors started and her luck has run out. DC has not recovered from the pandemic in terms of the economic hit downtown took and the effect on youth. Combine this with the unique and awful federal control of most of the criminal justice system and you have a mess.
She has never had any ideas. This bill will do nothing to improve public safety. |
| Hope y’all don’t vote the same way especially if you come my way (Virginia). Don’t repeat the same mistake. |
Uhhh that ship has sailed. Voters in Nova already vote the same way... |
Because the Republican party is so functional right now, too. Ya'll elect a speaker yet? |
This is the thing. It’s not even that D.C. is some bastion of Libertarianism that just wants to let everyone do whatever they want. It’s that they only want to enforce laws that tie into extremist activists ideology. Hundreds of people killed this year? No big deal. 10 dogs killed? Look at how much attention the Council or the DC sub gave that. Rampant violent assaults and threats? You’re a fear mongerer. Parking in the bike line? Hey, now there’s a big issue. The Council didn’t get upset about the child that was killed by a stray bullet driving home on mother’s day, or the dangerous criminal who was released against a judges wishes and murdered an innocent woman this year. Or the guy who tried to murder a pub owner in front of his son, and only got 8 months. But the resident who found himself in a confrontation with a group of car thieves outside his house at 4 am and ended up shooting one? That angered the Council, and got them to demand justice. Nadeau’s bill to decriminalize street vendors who are hawking the stolen good from CVS passed the Council 12-0. Yet legitimate businesses have to spend years waiting for their permits to get approved. There was a case recently where a guy had his car stolen and the thieves racked up tickets. D.C. said he waited too long to contest the tickets, so he had to pay $700. The car thieves were released without any conviction. The city thinks it needs to make it extremely hard for law abiding citizens to purchase a gun. Yet at the same time, criminals with illegal guns are routinely let free. There was a case recently where police found an illegal gun on a guy, the judge threw out the charges for idiotic reasons (the police asked if he was armed before approaching, which the judge said police can’t do), and he murdered someone a few days later. Brooke Pinto tried to get the city to be tougher on illegal guns, but the rest of the Council was against it. They want to make things as difficult as can be for legal gun owners, and let illegal gun owners roam free. The low prosecution rates? The D.C. Council actually took issue with that several years back, even Charles Allen said it was terrible. Oh, but they only cared about the low prosecution rates for hate crimes. They even made sure that the hearing about it specifically said it was only about hate crime prosecution rates. Assault, murder? Who cares. Over and over again. It would be bad enough if D.C. was just a lawless wasteland. But what the Council seems to want is for the law to come down hard against anyone outside of the extremist activist culture, while doing everything it can to protect violent criminals. |
Maybe Alexandria but not Fairfax or Loudoun. Lighter shade of blue craziness than DC |
Certainly Arlington and Alexandria. I wouldn’t be surprised if it spreads further. Voters never learn. |
Indeed, this is what makes lefty dominated areas so unlivable. It’s what happens when your whole ideology is based around violent criminals being the real victims. At this point the best hope is for a republican led congress to relieve the DC council of their governing duties. We need a federally governed capital. |
This is the problem with Ds. They vote like this, move because their area became unlivable due to the way they voted, then vote like this again wherever they move. See: California. I’m not really a huge fan of Rs but at least they vote for their own interests and stay where they are. |
Probably the best summary of the state of affairs in DC I've read. The hypocrisy of arguing for gun control when a tragic national shooting happens, but then not giving a rats *ss about whether gun violence in our own city is adequately prosecuted or giving a hoot if criminals held accountable for it. Ugh, DC, you suck. |
Is there a lawsuit here (see bolded) ? ^ Our car was stolen and the way we were treated by DC was awful, but this is insane. Thank you for your detailed post. |
Tickets go to the registered ownr. It's pretty simple. Don't register your vehicle. |
Our elected leaders get more pissed off about legislation proposing to crack down on crime than they get pissed off about actual crime. |