The Atlantic covers the out of control carjacking

[Anonymous]

What do the Charles Allens of the world think of the poor single mother of 4 in the article, a Postal worker, who had to take a second job to afford a new car after fearing for her life and that she would leave her children as orphans?

There are real victims to these crimes and it is an extreme privilege to act like this doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do the Charles Allens of the world think of the poor single mother of 4 in the article, a Postal worker, who had to take a second job to afford a new car after fearing for her life and that she would leave her children as orphans?

There are real victims to these crimes and it is an extreme privilege to act like this doesn't matter.

You have answered your own question. Charles Allen doesn’t care about crime victims.

[Anonymous]

What can people do about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What can people do about this?

Ever since Trump came in to power car jacking and car thefts have been through the roof. The car thefts show there is market for stolen cars and stole car parts. This could be cracked down on but would mean tracking and such. Republicans are only concerned about petty street crimes and refuse to go after the big fish who create the market.

[Anonymous]

Bring back chain gangs and make the youths build roads. Two birds with one stone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring back chain gangs and make the youths build roads. Two birds with one stone.

Even just picking up trash while wearing those awful prison suits would work. Teenagers hate public embarrassment and also doing hard work. Making big rocks into little rocks is great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring back chain gangs and make the youths build roads. Two birds with one stone.

Even just picking up trash while wearing those awful prison suits would work. Teenagers hate public embarrassment and also doing hard work. Making big rocks into little rocks is great.

Fantastic idea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how the car-jackers rarely drive in to Virginia. Also, if it's children that are stealing these cars then these kids need to give up the names of their adult gang leaders or suffer severe jail time. Someone has to serve major time and I would rather have it be the gang leaders, but if all you can get are these low-level teens, then so be it, let them see what real jail time looks like.

Dwayne Betts - a 16 year old from PG county - traveled to Virginia where he carjacked a guy with a gun in a mall parking lot. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to seven years. His book was excellent in that so few of his intelligence write about this experience with depth. A graduate of Yale Law today, he clearly understands the significance of trying these cases in the adult fora. Yet he would contend prison was not the right place for him.

It is tempting ascribe his crime as the product of racial isolation and fatherlessness, topics he discusses. But he was taking AP physics and getting scholarship offers from places like Georgia Tech. There is an argument that imposing consequences will matter.

One of the things that struck me was how unhelpful some elements of the black community were. Howard pulled his admission and scholarship on learning of his crime. University of Maryland accepted him and he excelled.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how the car-jackers rarely drive in to Virginia. Also, if it's children that are stealing these cars then these kids need to give up the names of their adult gang leaders or suffer severe jail time. Someone has to serve major time and I would rather have it be the gang leaders, but if all you can get are these low-level teens, then so be it, let them see what real jail time looks like.

Dwayne Betts - a 16 year old from PG county - traveled to Virginia where he carjacked a guy with a gun in a mall parking lot. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to seven years. His book was excellent in that so few of his intelligence write about this experience with depth. A graduate of Yale Law today, he clearly understands the significance of trying these cases in the adult fora. Yet he would contend prison was not the right place for him.

It is tempting ascribe his crime as the product of racial isolation and fatherlessness, topics he discusses. But he was taking AP physics and getting scholarship offers from places like Georgia Tech. There is an argument that imposing consequences will matter.

One of the things that struck me was how unhelpful some elements of the black community were. Howard pulled his admission and scholarship on learning of his crime. University of Maryland accepted him and he excelled.

Why are you surprised? The black community are hit the hardest by criminals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

Lots of Virginia carjackings are from Senator Alsobrooks constituents. Maybe she can do as a Senator when she could not do as a county executive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What can people do about this?

Ever since Trump came in to power car jacking and car thefts have been through the roof. The car thefts show there is market for stolen cars and stole car parts. This could be cracked down on but would mean tracking and such. Republicans are only concerned about petty street crimes and refuse to go after the big fish who create the market.

Got any stats on that, old son?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Notice how the car-jackers rarely drive in to Virginia. Also, if it's children that are stealing these cars then these kids need to give up the names of their adult gang leaders or suffer severe jail time. Someone has to serve major time and I would rather have it be the gang leaders, but if all you can get are these low-level teens, then so be it, let them see what real jail time looks like.

They are afraid of the trolls who live under the bridges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a really good article. incredibly frustrating - these are violent crimes and repeat offenders with no consequences.

I know someone who was hit by a joyriding carjacker driving on local streets at 80 mph and he ended up in the hospital.

Sounds like a road design issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Notice how the car-jackers rarely drive in to Virginia. Also, if it's children that are stealing these cars then these kids need to give up the names of their adult gang leaders or suffer severe jail time. Someone has to serve major time and I would rather have it be the gang leaders, but if all you can get are these low-level teens, then so be it, let them see what real jail time looks like.

Dwayne Betts - a 16 year old from PG county - traveled to Virginia where he carjacked a guy with a gun in a mall parking lot. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to seven years. His book was excellent in that so few of his intelligence write about this experience with depth. A graduate of Yale Law today, he clearly understands the significance of trying these cases in the adult fora. Yet he would contend prison was not the right place for him.

It is tempting ascribe his crime as the product of racial isolation and fatherlessness, topics he discusses. But he was taking AP physics and getting scholarship offers from places like Georgia Tech. There is an argument that imposing consequences will matter.

One of the things that struck me was how unhelpful some elements of the black community were. Howard pulled his admission and scholarship on learning of his crime. University of Maryland accepted him and he excelled.

It appears that prison did benefit him. DC doesn't seem to churning out Yale Law graduates with their carjacking sentences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Atlantic covers Maryland area carjackings.

How can average citizens get these laws changed that allow for catch and release?

I'm tired of hearing about the poor criminals. If their parents/guardians can't keep them off the streets/out of jail, they should be placed in an environment where they get mandatory therapy and education/vocational training and kept away from the rest of society until they can control their violent impulses. Call it juvie or give it some other name, but there need to be consequences. Catch and release doesn't protect society, doesn't teach anything, and doesn't improve any of the circumstances that led to this violent criminal thinking it's ok to go carjack people at gunpoint when they are still too young to even drive legally. It's stupid.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/carjacking-crime-police-dc-maryland/679951/?gift=GXWqO_oXqVH8hrv18ow_FKj1EDfWC13BDpglmi3wg9c&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Is this a joke? It is DC-area carjackings. It is principally a crime that has spilled over into Maryland due to DC’s lax on crime policies, which the article does a good job explaining.

The article focuses on the difficulty that PG County PD have in policing this crime along the DC-MD border due to jurisdictional issues.

It also does something that the progressive activists never do, centers the victims and went into some detail about how this affected a family and the limited repercussions and criminal penalties that were enforced, including in PG County courts.

The criminals are largely coming from DC Wards 7 and 8, along with “Ward 9” aka PG.