In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true

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#BlackLivesMatter

Stupidest thing a city has ever done.

Again … this was vandalism. Not the city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

#BlackLivesMatter

Stupidest thing a city has ever done.

Again … this was vandalism. Not the city.

How long was it left there to see?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC crimes are not prosecuted. They declined to prosecute 67% of local arrests. Philly was only 4% to give an example
DC is allowing crime to happen and not chosing to prosecute it they are eventually asking for it and voters are supporting it

Can we sue the AG for not doing its job and for endangering the people of DC?

Yes, you can!

Ive been wondering about this too. Let’s do it! Maybe there are Georgetown Law students who would take our case?

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Anonymous wrote:754th carjacking yet--"In March Congress reversed a revision to Washington’s criminal code passed by the district council which, among many other changes, dropped mandatory minimum sentences for carjacking. It was the first time Congress had nixed a local law in three decades."

This is interesting and eye opening. This doesn't alarm anyone?

Exactly. This was an outrage. There were so many marble mouthed explanations about why the criminal code was outdated and had to be revised, but this right here never made any sense and was completely outrageous (along with other proposed changes). I had a long email back and forth with Charles Allen in which he claimed he was actually tough on violent crime and not making carjacking a lesser crime. I was totally gaslit.

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Anonymous wrote:754th carjacking yet--"In March Congress reversed a revision to Washington’s criminal code passed by the district council which, among many other changes, dropped mandatory minimum sentences for carjacking. It was the first time Congress had nixed a local law in three decades."

This is interesting and eye opening. This doesn't alarm anyone?

Exactly. This was an outrage. There were so many marble mouthed explanations about why the criminal code was outdated and had to be revised, but this right here never made any sense and was completely outrageous (along with other proposed changes). I had a long email back and forth with Charles Allen in which he claimed he was actually tough on violent crime and not making carjacking a lesser crime. I was totally gaslit.

This is when I switched about face on statehood.

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Anonymous wrote:754th carjacking yet--"In March Congress reversed a revision to Washington’s criminal code passed by the district council which, among many other changes, dropped mandatory minimum sentences for carjacking. It was the first time Congress had nixed a local law in three decades."

This is interesting and eye opening. This doesn't alarm anyone?

Yes. Charles Allen was very upset when Congress reversed his failed Crime Legalization Bill.

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Anonymous wrote:754th carjacking yet--"In March Congress reversed a revision to Washington’s criminal code passed by the district council which, among many other changes, dropped mandatory minimum sentences for carjacking. It was the first time Congress had nixed a local law in three decades."

This is interesting and eye opening. This doesn't alarm anyone?

Yes. Charles Allen was very upset when Congress reversed his failed Crime Legalization Bill.

Yes, it was a terrible bill. Thank you Congress.

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Anonymous wrote:This is when I switched about face on statehood.

Same. And I used to be a statehood activist who did political lobbying on the issue.

The other thing is just seeing how completely apathetic and disinterested the voting public is. Almost all of the people flying D.C. flags and yelling about "taxation with representation" pay no attention to who they vote for in this city, and what those people do. I don't get how you can spend all your time yelling that you need to be given more people to vote for, and then demonstrate that you don't care at all about who you currently vote for.

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At this point I am actively against statehood and counting down the number of Congress-people and their staffers who need to be mugged and murdered before Congress takes federal action on crime here.

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Anonymous wrote:At this point I am actively against statehood and counting down the number of Congress-people and their staffers who need to be mugged and murdered before Congress takes federal action on crime here.

So far that number is “more than four.”

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Many residents are not natives and just passing through DC and don't care enough to get involved or demand change. When it gets too much for them, they just move and leave the problems for someone else to clean up.

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Anonymous wrote:DC crimes are not prosecuted. They declined to prosecute 67% of local arrests. Philly was only 4% to give an example
DC is allowing crime to happen and not chosing to prosecute it they are eventually asking for it and voters are supporting it

This is it right here. I personally know 3 DC residents who were the victims of crime and none of their cases were prosecuted. They returned "no paper" on every single case.

1. Carjacking. Victim provided very good description of the guys who did it, including a pair of distinct shoes. The guys were caught in the stolen car nearby. The descriptions matched and the one guy was wearing the shoes. Prosecutor chose to no paper due to lack of evidence. This was in 2022.

2. Robbery. Surveillance footage of the robbery was provided to the police. No prosecution. What's even better in this case is that the victim went to the location where her belongings were recovered and spoke with the manager of the business about security footage. The manager would not send her the footage (said the police could get it, tho) but allowed her to use her cell phone to record the screen. The person who robbed her and the person who ditched the belongings are the same. The police never even asked about any security footage from either location. This was in 2023.

3. B&E. Ring footage and inside video footage provided to the police. No prosecution. This was in 2023.

Make it make sense, please.

The young people of DC know they can pretty much do what they want and get away with it.

If you're a victim of crime in DC, you realize pretty quickly that neither MPD nor the USAO are doing their jobs. On purpose.

I've been a DC resident for fifteen years and something has definitely changed...and its not the laws. MPD can be outright hostile to victims of crime.

Until you witness it yourself, you don't know what you're talking about.

So yes, the criminals act with impunity because they know MPD and USAO are on their side. It's crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:DC crimes are not prosecuted. They declined to prosecute 67% of local arrests. Philly was only 4% to give an example
DC is allowing crime to happen and not chosing to prosecute it they are eventually asking for it and voters are supporting it

Did you miss the entire point of the article? We are paralyzed by the federal government. I want to know what we can do about that!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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#BlackLivesMatter

Stupidest thing a city has ever done.

Again … this was vandalism. Not the city.

How long was it left there to see?

The city painted over it the next day, which pissed off the BLM people.

Some republican troll posts that pic over and over again in these threads. And every time people are fooled into thinking the DC government did it.

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Anonymous wrote:At this point I am actively against statehood and counting down the number of Congress-people and their staffers who need to be mugged and murdered before Congress takes federal action on crime here.

By doing what exactly? By telling federal prosecutors to do their damn job?