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Serious question.
If I am 17. I car jack someone wlat gunpoint. No injuries. I get tossed in jail for a few days until whatever process happens where the AG or USDAO (I don't care who's fault it is) decides to release me because I am young or whatever reason they have. Does DC then do anything to try and rehabilitate me? When I walk out of jail a week after car jacking someone, am I assigned a case worker? A mentor? Does someone see where I am on the road to graduating? Does DC do anything or am I just left to my own devices to infer whatever lesson I learned over the last week? |
You get a key the city and JLG and Charles Adams through you a parade. |
You don't go to jail at all. Bowser had a bill to change that, but it was rejected by the city council. Janeese Lewis George led the opposition. She said jail would "traumatize" them. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/27/bowser-crime-bill-dc-council-opposition/ |
Oh wow. I can commit an armed car jacking and not even get processed? Do they call my parents or just let me go? |
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The council did end up passing the bill.
https://dcist.com/story/23/07/11/dc-council-approves-emergency-crime-bill/ |
A violence interrupter makes you pinky promise never to do it again. |
You wouldn't spend more than few hours in jail. |
| Doesn’t kidnapping still potentially carry the death penalty? An aggressive indictment would be a strong deterrent to others. Rick |
| Stolen cellphones should be easy for police to track. |
They need to go to adult prison for kidnapping with a gun. |
It is about time the perpetrators get traumatized. They have traumatized honest tax paying hard working citizens long enough. |
| Good bye home rule. |
I am guessing that the stolen cell phones are probably only in the theifs possession for a few minutes before they are disposed of once again at another location. |
For the most part these young people’s lives have been nothing but ne long stream of trauma. |