Bowser is soft on crime

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course she is but what is your point? Do you expect her to lock up her AA supports?

Do AA like her though? She seems crooked as the day is long.

Some do, some don’t. Why is it so inconceivable for y’all to grasp the fact that black people are actually made up of unique and distinct individuals and aren’t just some single-minded collective?

Didn’t mean to imply that.

She seems to me like an Oprah type person—acceptable
To the whites but blacks can see through her charade.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course she is but what is your point? Do you expect her to lock up her AA supports?

Do AA like her though? She seems crooked as the day is long.

Some do, some don’t. Why is it so inconceivable for y’all to grasp the fact that black people are actually made up of unique and distinct individuals and aren’t just some single-minded collective?

Didn’t mean to imply that.

She seems to me like an Oprah type person—acceptable
To the whites but blacks can see through her charade.

What ridiculous nonsense are you talking about? That’s STILL implying that black people aren’t capable of individuality and diversity.
NEWSFLASH: Melanin doesn’t make people a single-minded collective like the Borg from Star Trek.
Do all white people like Donald Trump? No. Some do, some don’t. He seems crooked as shit but yet he’s got just as many defenders as detractors. Why should a black politician be any different and why should black constituents be any different just because of the color of their skin?

[Anonymous]

It's more the council than Bowser. We had a chance to vote out Nadeau, but her opponents split the vote and now we're stuck with that soft-on-crime nitwit (I never thought I'd ever be pining for Jim Graham but here we are). Grosso is leaving, thank Christ. Allen never met a criminal he didn't want to pat on the head and wants early release for rapists and murderers. Trayon thinks Jews control the weather and would sooner loan a criminal his car than punish them.

With people like this calling the shots no wonder things are going to hell.

[Anonymous]

Bow-wow and the SJWs on the council coddle criminals. It’s their base.

[Anonymous]

Bowser is very different from the SJWs. Bowser is or politics. If it helps her look good she's on it.

At least the SJWs are looking for real ways to improve things. Clearly "MORE COPS!!" isn't working. We have a lot already.

[Anonymous]

*pure politics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bow-wow and the SJWs on the council coddle criminals. It’s their base.

Speaking of coddling criminals have you heard that the U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting fewer white-collar criminals now than at any time since records back more than 30 years ago? Yeah...federal prosecutions of white-collar criminals plunged in January to the lowest level on record, falling 25% from the levels reached just five years ago? I seriously doubt embezzlement, money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion just up and disappeared all the sudden so who’s being soft with those perpetrators? (HINT: It’s not SJW’s.)

I keep telling y’all that holier-than-thou partisan perspective is some bullshit the politicians on the other side of the aisle aren’t saints either you just don’t care about the dirt they do because of inherent biases.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How is it on Bowser. In the article you posted a link to it says,
“the USAO doesn’t have enough evidence to build a case beyond a reasonable doubt.
...often there are no eye witnesses (or at least none who are willing to talk), witnesses are conflicted, or victims do not want to cooperate with prosecutors.”

Do you understand the judicial process? You can arrest every young black male in DC (which I’m sure would suit you just fine) but that doesn’t mean they’re going to jail never to be seen again. Convictions are what keep criminals off the street and you need evidence and witnesses to convict which the Mayor can’t magically pull out her ass.

DC has the biggest police force in the country, on a per capita basis.

DC also has the highest taxes in the country, on a per capita basis.

It doesnt seem unreasonable to demand from our elected officials half-way decent government services in exchange for all that.

Your data is so old it's not even funny. DC hasn't had the highest taxes in a long time. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even have the highest taxes in the DMV. DC also doesn't have the largest police force per capita. Stop commenting if you have no idea what you are talking about.

DC has the highest taxes in the country on a per capita basis, and the largest police force on a per capita basis. These are facts. It's all based on publicly available data. You can go look them up. Here, Ill save you the trouble:

"District of Columbia. D.C.’s tax collections per capita ($10,841) are higher than in any state. The five states with the highest tax collections per capita are New York ($8,957), Connecticut ($7,220), New Jersey ($6,709), North Dakota ($6,630), and Massachusetts ($6,469). The five states with the lowest tax collections per capita are Alabama ($3,206), Tennessee ($3,322), South Carolina ($3,435), Oklahoma ($3,458), and Florida ($3,478)."

https://taxfoundation.org/state-local-tax-collections-per-capita-2019/

And go to the last page of this, from the Department of Justice on law enforcement employment:

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/nsleed.pdf

That DC has an enormous police force has been well documented:

"the District was still the most policed city in the U.S. There were nearly 57 D.C. police department cops for every 10,000 Washingtonians—almost twice the average for big cities and about four times the national average. The next closest city was Wilmington, Delaware, with more than 43 cops per 10,000 citizens."

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20976373/dc-is-teeming-with-police-officers-so-the-mystery-may-be-why-crime-happens-at-all

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course she is but what is your point? Do you expect her to lock up her AA supports?

The moment local politicians stop being soft on crime is the moment that they loose votes. Bowser has to pacify her supports or risk loosing her mayoral seat. If you are an AA mayor, or politician, then you must excuse lots of dysfunction in order to get votes or maintain your seat. Folks will come after Bowser if she attempts to address crime. Unfortunately, she is caught between a rock and a hard place. Address crime and people especially AAs will not like her. Don't address crime and folks will scream that she is enforcing white supremacy policies to keep AAs down. Every politician especially Democrats know that in order to get and maintain the AA vote you most be soft on crime. This is a realty that no one is going to touch with a ten foot pole. It will be political suicide if any Democrat politician is not soft on crime.

I feel sorry for many AA and Democrat politicians because in order to do what you know is right will make you unpopular with AA voters. Even if you are not a politician it is almost impossible to speak out against crimes in AA circles. I am AA and when I speak out about the dysfunction that exist in urban areas mass opposition unfolds. I have learned that in order to make peace you must go along with the status quo that white people are the cause of all of our problems including urban crime. I think Bowser and many Democrat politicians just throw their hands up and just give up. Being soft keeps AAs happy. If you want to be an AA politician in America, then then you better toe the line period. I don't blame Bowser.

Behind close doors she may want to get hard on crime, but the optics will not benefit her. I know it is backwards. Sometimes the urban AA community operates in a upside down Alice in Wonderland type of world where normal to everyone else is consider not normal to them. What is normalize in many urban areas across the country is only considered dysfunctional to outsiders who are looking in. Crime is so normalize that it as become an identity for many urban AAs. This is the only world that they know. Even AAs like myself who are not accustomed to this thought process are shocked. It is an eye opening experience. The mental slavery that so many AAs in urban areas have is quite appalling to me. They love politicians who are soft. They feel like a soft politician can better relate to their struggle. Bowser like many other politicians is doing what she has to do. Good politicians must appease their flock not destroy it.

Why are people surprise about Bowser being soft? Has anyone here ever a Democrat politician who was tough on crime? The two just do not correlate with each other.

You sound really dumb. I'm black and live in Ward 4. I've never been quiet about my distain for Bowser. Ever. No one has ostracized me. I'm in the in crowd. I am vocal. Crime has not been normalized. Dems don't have anything to do with this.

You certainly write better than the quoted PP, but he/she sounds more honest.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bow-wow and the SJWs on the council coddle criminals. It’s their base.

Speaking of coddling criminals have you heard that the U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting fewer white-collar criminals now than at any time since records back more than 30 years ago? Yeah...federal prosecutions of white-collar criminals plunged in January to the lowest level on record, falling 25% from the levels reached just five years ago? I seriously doubt embezzlement, money laundering, bribery, and tax evasion just up and disappeared all the sudden so who’s being soft with those perpetrators? (HINT: It’s not SJW’s.)

I keep telling y’all that holier-than-thou partisan perspective is some bullshit the politicians on the other side of the aisle aren’t saints either you just don’t care about the dirt they do because of inherent biases.

So what. Deflection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Of course she is but what is your point? Do you expect her to lock up her AA supports?

Do AA like her though? She seems crooked as the day is long.

Some do, some don’t. Why is it so inconceivable for y’all to grasp the fact that black people are actually made up of unique and distinct individuals and aren’t just some single-minded collective?

Didn’t mean to imply that.

She seems to me like an Oprah type person—acceptable
To the whites but blacks can see through her charade.

What ridiculous nonsense are you talking about? That’s STILL implying that black people aren’t capable of individuality and diversity.
NEWSFLASH: Melanin doesn’t make people a single-minded collective like the Borg from Star Trek.
Do all white people like Donald Trump? No. Some do, some don’t. He seems crooked as shit but yet he’s got just as many defenders as detractors. Why should a black politician be any different and why should black constituents be any different just because of the color of their skin?

Considering Bowser’d individualalty, she is corrupt and stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is it on Bowser. In the article you posted a link to it says,
“the USAO doesn’t have enough evidence to build a case beyond a reasonable doubt.
...often there are no eye witnesses (or at least none who are willing to talk), witnesses are conflicted, or victims do not want to cooperate with prosecutors.”

Do you understand the judicial process? You can arrest every young black male in DC (which I’m sure would suit you just fine) but that doesn’t mean they’re going to jail never to be seen again. Convictions are what keep criminals off the street and you need evidence and witnesses to convict which the Mayor can’t magically pull out her ass.

DC has the biggest police force in the country, on a per capita basis.

DC also has the highest taxes in the country, on a per capita basis.

It doesnt seem unreasonable to demand from our elected officials half-way decent government services in exchange for all that.

Your data is so old it's not even funny. DC hasn't had the highest taxes in a long time. As a matter of fact, it doesn't even have the highest taxes in the DMV. DC also doesn't have the largest police force per capita. Stop commenting if you have no idea what you are talking about.

DC has the highest taxes in the country on a per capita basis, and the largest police force on a per capita basis. These are facts. It's all based on publicly available data. You can go look them up. Here, Ill save you the trouble:

"District of Columbia. D.C.’s tax collections per capita ($10,841) are higher than in any state. The five states with the highest tax collections per capita are New York ($8,957), Connecticut ($7,220), New Jersey ($6,709), North Dakota ($6,630), and Massachusetts ($6,469). The five states with the lowest tax collections per capita are Alabama ($3,206), Tennessee ($3,322), South Carolina ($3,435), Oklahoma ($3,458), and Florida ($3,478)."

https://taxfoundation.org/state-local-tax-collections-per-capita-2019/

And go to the last page of this, from the Department of Justice on law enforcement employment:

https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/nsleed.pdf

That DC has an enormous police force has been well documented:

"the District was still the most policed city in the U.S. There were nearly 57 D.C. police department cops for every 10,000 Washingtonians—almost twice the average for big cities and about four times the national average. The next closest city was Wilmington, Delaware, with more than 43 cops per 10,000 citizens."

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/20976373/dc-is-teeming-with-police-officers-so-the-mystery-may-be-why-crime-happens-at-all

Unlike most large city police forces MPD doesn’t even have a traffic division. The officers don’t seem to walk area beats, to get to residents and businesses. When was the last time you saw an MPD cop walking a beat?

[Anonymous]

So it’s not the Mayor who’s soft it’s the cops who don’t do shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it’s not the Mayor who’s soft it’s the cops who don’t do shit.

You know crime is bad when people are trying to divvy up blame between the mayor and the police.

When crime is low, this conversation doesnt happen. No one says, when crime is low, it's because the police are great even though the mayor sucks. And no one says, when crime is low, it's because the mayor is great even though the police are terrible.

People just say "crime is low -- good job mayor!" And the mayor says, "yes, yes, I know, but I also have others to thank as well and we can't forget about them."

[Anonymous]

Car theft is up massively.