| Let me remind everyone. In 2022, Ward 3 had a Dem primary candidate, Eric Goulet, who had a much tougher stance on crime than Frumin. Goulet was pilloried by the progressives as being "Republican-lite" and a racist. Ward 1 had a Dem primary candidate---Salah Czapary---who was a former cop who said publicly and often what then-Chief Robert Contee has also said often, i.e., the 700 or so violent gun-wielding adult and juvenile criminals in the District are well known to police, and they should be locked up appropriately (so for juveniles that means juvie, not adult jail). Brianne Nadeau's progressive henchpeople discovered that Czapary had a campaign staffer whose father---not him---had worked for Trump, and they papered Ward 1 with signs alleging that the gay son of immigrants was a secret Trumper. We would be much better off vis a vis the Council and crime if Czapary and Goulet would have won their respective primaries. They would be backing the Mayor on doing more to fight crime, not voting for Charles Allen's crazy crap policies, and also pressuring Schwalb and the Feds to actually prosecute criminals. The police would not be as demoralized as they now are---which is the other troubling aspect to all of this, Voting matters and we, the citizens of Wards 1 and 3, royally screwed up our chances to improve things when we had the opportunity. |
THANK YOU. Every candidate who saw the writing on the wall re: crime was attacked as a pseudo-Trumper. And now you’re all freaking out about the increase in crime. I really hope people don’t forget this the next time around. |
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Cheh was pilloried too.
What is very demoralizing to me is Allen running unopposed. Btw, I think the MPD budget is smaller bc of the size of the dept having shrunk, not a policy change so I think his assumption there is incorrect. Bowser has upped the hiring bonus, but MPD is still losing more people than it is gaining, thus salary budget is smaller. |
DC ruined their reputation. Defund the popo! Great idea. Now all the cops have quit and moved away. Throw all the money you want at the problem. It's not fixing it. Maybe you can hire some social workers to "intervene". This is so richly deserved. |
The Council actually did hold hearings about this in 2019. But in typical Council fashion, they made it clear that they were _only_ interested in the decline in hate crime prosecutions, not in any other crimes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-lawmakers-slam-us-attorney-for-skipping-hate-crimes-hearing/2019/10/23/0422ed1c-f5da-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html The hearings lead to some more prosecutions for hate crimes, and since the Council didn't care about other crimes they just shrugged as the prosecution rates for everything else kept dropping. It's always crazy to me that these people kept getting elected. |
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A high percentage of crimes in DC are never prosecuted.
That's by design. |
[checks notes for the District of Columbia crime stats] Ok, what is your point again? We aren’t discussing Appalachia on this thread about the skyrocketing surge in *dc* crime. I have no doubt that white guys are the problem in Pike County, Kentucky but I really don’t care. See also, latino men in Brownsville, texas |
Yes, she expressed obvious concerns about how vouchers have been administered in Ct. avenue apartments and the corresponding rise in nuisance behaviors and crime. And then she was canceled by the canceling throngs of DC. Easier to cancel than to look at all sides. |
| We need only to fully defund the police. Only then will law and order emerge. |
Is this parody? Yes, we need to reform police but to just tout "defund the police" and not have any real plan for how to actually fix the problems is idiotic and magical thinking. |
I think pp is channeling her inner "Trayon White" before he saw the light. |
| Defunding the police was the most destructive slogan I’ve heard in recent history. Absolute stupidity. |
+100 |
“Ward 3 For All” says hold my beer. |
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Between 2013 and 2019, DC recorded between 104 and 166 homicides per year.
In the three full years since, it’s recorded 198, 223 and 203 murders. This year, it’s on pace to bear witness to 256. All this has been accompanied by skyrocketing crime rates across the board. The capital has already far eclipsed the staggering number of carjackings that took place there last year. Worse yet, only 80 arrests have been made in connection with 2023’s 606 carjackings so far. Prospects are so bleak that Trayon White Sr., a Democratic city councilman who originally voted to lower the criminal penalties for a number of serious infractions — including carjacking and armed carjacking — is now calling for the National Guard’s intervention in the carnage. Imagine telling someone in June 2020, amidst the gnashing of teeth that accompanied Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for the National Guard’s use then, that a little over three years later, Democrats would be pining for the same. |