DC homicide count at its highest in 20 years

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

My sympathies for you and your family. My son is coming home from college for the holidays. I have asked him not to leave the house and meet up with his high school friends. I almost asked him not to come home for the holidays due to my overwhelming fear of what is happening in my once beloved city. I kick myself every time I can for overstaying my welcome in this deadly city. I hope we are gone come spring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

My sympathies for you and your family. My son is coming home from college for the holidays. I have asked him not to leave the house and meet up with his high school friends. I almost asked him not to come home for the holidays due to my overwhelming fear of what is happening in my once beloved city. I kick myself every time I can for overstaying my welcome in this deadly city. I hope we are gone come spring.

Please do not bring a poisonous liberal vote to your new civilized community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

My sympathies for you and your family. My son is coming home from college for the holidays. I have asked him not to leave the house and meet up with his high school friends. I almost asked him not to come home for the holidays due to my overwhelming fear of what is happening in my once beloved city. I kick myself every time I can for overstaying my welcome in this deadly city. I hope we are gone come spring.

Please do not bring a poisonous liberal vote to your new civilized community.

Demonrat scum should not be allowed to leave the $hit holes they created. Libturds deserve every bit of this.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

My sympathies for you and your family. My son is coming home from college for the holidays. I have asked him not to leave the house and meet up with his high school friends. I almost asked him not to come home for the holidays due to my overwhelming fear of what is happening in my once beloved city. I kick myself every time I can for overstaying my welcome in this deadly city. I hope we are gone come spring.

Please do not bring a poisonous liberal vote to your new civilized community.

Demonrat scum should not be allowed to leave the $hit holes they created. Libturds deserve every bit of this.

This was a productive thread till the third graders showed up.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps an actually decent investigative reporter would follow up on this data with a more useful, data driven article than a hit piece on the H St NE corridor considering crime is an issue all over the city. Our ongoing lack of Put the Mayor and the DC Council and the OAG and DCPS (truancy issue) and more to the fire with actual data.

There is reporting on the bits and pieces, but nobody has put anything on the big picture of the collective dysfunction leading to the current status quo in our city.

-Catch and release
-Very few arrests actually leading to convictions
-High declination rate to charge vs other cities
-Rising juvenile violent crime coupled with minimal follow up on school truancy, budget cuts to truancy follow up
-Ongoing lack of a DC crime lab
-Cuts to police patrol budget

Quoting H Street business owners is a “hit piece?”

I absolutely believe H St business owners have legitimate concerns, but I also don't think their concerns are that specific to H St NE vs. city wide trends. Perhaps city wide trends are slightly worse on H St, but still, we have city wide issues. I live near H St, I get all the crime alerts, there's also a ton of car jackings happening on Capitol Hill, it's freaking everywhere now.

For instance, the exact same concerns have been posted as well about Mt Pleasant (see Beau Thai thread)

Sure, but I don’t see how that makes the H Street article in any way inaccurate?

Posters respond similarly to complaints about DC crime overall with, “But it’s bad in other cities, too!”

Um, okay?

Let’s not blame journalists for this mess. That was a fine article. USAO has got to go! Charles Allen needs a new job. Janesse, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

Appalling. Our elected leaders care more about criminals than their victims.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps an actually decent investigative reporter would follow up on this data with a more useful, data driven article than a hit piece on the H St NE corridor considering crime is an issue all over the city. Our ongoing lack of Put the Mayor and the DC Council and the OAG and DCPS (truancy issue) and more to the fire with actual data.

There is reporting on the bits and pieces, but nobody has put anything on the big picture of the collective dysfunction leading to the current status quo in our city.

-Catch and release
-Very few arrests actually leading to convictions
-High declination rate to charge vs other cities
-Rising juvenile violent crime coupled with minimal follow up on school truancy, budget cuts to truancy follow up
-Ongoing lack of a DC crime lab
-Cuts to police patrol budget

Quoting H Street business owners is a “hit piece?”

I absolutely believe H St business owners have legitimate concerns, but I also don't think their concerns are that specific to H St NE vs. city wide trends. Perhaps city wide trends are slightly worse on H St, but still, we have city wide issues. I live near H St, I get all the crime alerts, there's also a ton of car jackings happening on Capitol Hill, it's freaking everywhere now.

For instance, the exact same concerns have been posted as well about Mt Pleasant (see Beau Thai thread)

Sure, but I don’t see how that makes the H Street article in any way inaccurate?

Posters respond similarly to complaints about DC crime overall with, “But it’s bad in other cities, too!”

Um, okay?

Let’s not blame journalists for this mess. That was a fine article. USAO has got to go! Charles Allen needs a new job. Janesse, too.

Someone legal tell me how this works in DC. USAO has issues, sure, but the most recent murder case showed that they repeatedly requested incarceration for a serious offender pending trial (who was indicted by a grand jury) and it was denied. It's local judges as well that aren't nominated by DC voters; some of them nominated by democratic presidents, some of them nominated by republican presidents.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps an actually decent investigative reporter would follow up on this data with a more useful, data driven article than a hit piece on the H St NE corridor considering crime is an issue all over the city. Our ongoing lack of Put the Mayor and the DC Council and the OAG and DCPS (truancy issue) and more to the fire with actual data.

There is reporting on the bits and pieces, but nobody has put anything on the big picture of the collective dysfunction leading to the current status quo in our city.

-Catch and release
-Very few arrests actually leading to convictions
-High declination rate to charge vs other cities
-Rising juvenile violent crime coupled with minimal follow up on school truancy, budget cuts to truancy follow up
-Ongoing lack of a DC crime lab
-Cuts to police patrol budget

Quoting H Street business owners is a “hit piece?”

I absolutely believe H St business owners have legitimate concerns, but I also don't think their concerns are that specific to H St NE vs. city wide trends. Perhaps city wide trends are slightly worse on H St, but still, we have city wide issues. I live near H St, I get all the crime alerts, there's also a ton of car jackings happening on Capitol Hill, it's freaking everywhere now.

For instance, the exact same concerns have been posted as well about Mt Pleasant (see Beau Thai thread)

Sure, but I don’t see how that makes the H Street article in any way inaccurate?

Posters respond similarly to complaints about DC crime overall with, “But it’s bad in other cities, too!”

Um, okay?

Let’s not blame journalists for this mess. That was a fine article. USAO has got to go! Charles Allen needs a new job. Janesse, too.

Someone legal tell me how this works in DC. USAO has issues, sure, but the most recent murder case showed that they repeatedly requested incarceration for a serious offender pending trial (who was indicted by a grand jury) and it was denied. It's local judges as well that aren't nominated by DC voters; some of them nominated by democratic presidents, some of them nominated by republican presidents.

Here's another example:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/matthew-graves-us-attorney-4th-amendment-cases-lost/65-93c2162b-41f2-4caf-b37f-30d95c4a4cdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps an actually decent investigative reporter would follow up on this data with a more useful, data driven article than a hit piece on the H St NE corridor considering crime is an issue all over the city. Our ongoing lack of Put the Mayor and the DC Council and the OAG and DCPS (truancy issue) and more to the fire with actual data.

There is reporting on the bits and pieces, but nobody has put anything on the big picture of the collective dysfunction leading to the current status quo in our city.

-Catch and release
-Very few arrests actually leading to convictions
-High declination rate to charge vs other cities
-Rising juvenile violent crime coupled with minimal follow up on school truancy, budget cuts to truancy follow up
-Ongoing lack of a DC crime lab
-Cuts to police patrol budget

Quoting H Street business owners is a “hit piece?”

I absolutely believe H St business owners have legitimate concerns, but I also don't think their concerns are that specific to H St NE vs. city wide trends. Perhaps city wide trends are slightly worse on H St, but still, we have city wide issues. I live near H St, I get all the crime alerts, there's also a ton of car jackings happening on Capitol Hill, it's freaking everywhere now.

For instance, the exact same concerns have been posted as well about Mt Pleasant (see Beau Thai thread)

Sure, but I don’t see how that makes the H Street article in any way inaccurate?

Posters respond similarly to complaints about DC crime overall with, “But it’s bad in other cities, too!”

Um, okay?

Let’s not blame journalists for this mess. That was a fine article. USAO has got to go! Charles Allen needs a new job. Janesse, too.

Someone legal tell me how this works in DC. USAO has issues, sure, but the most recent murder case showed that they repeatedly requested incarceration for a serious offender pending trial (who was indicted by a grand jury) and it was denied. It's local judges as well that aren't nominated by DC voters; some of them nominated by democratic presidents, some of them nominated by republican presidents.

Here's another example:
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/investigations/matthew-graves-us-attorney-4th-amendment-cases-lost/65-93c2162b-41f2-4caf-b37f-30d95c4a4cdf

"Because D.C. is not a state, its Court of Appeals has judges appointed by both Republican and Democratic presidents for lifetime appointments. In the case of TV v US, Judge Easterly, an Obama appointee, and Judge Deahl, a Trump appointee, and Senior Judge Thompson, a GW Bush appointee wrote the dissenting opinion. In the case of Mayo v. US, Judges Easterly and Deahl wrote the opinions while Obama appointee Judge McLeese wrote the dissenting opinion. The current makeup of the DC Court of Appeals, including senior judges, is 9 appointed by Democratic presidents and 5 appointed by Republican presidents."

[Anonymous]

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This is what we vote, this is what we get.

Overly simplistic and trite. Viable candidates with different views need to be identified and to run. Allen, for example, ran unopposed. Many did not vote for him, yet, the impact on people all over the city, the majority outside his ward who in no way could vote for or against him, was significant, especially during the time he chaired the Safety Committee. Impacts of bills passed during those years continues to have a huge role re: crime. There have to be viable alternatives, and not too many, or you get a Nadeau situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

I’m so sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve posted on different threads, but my nephew was murdered last summer in DC. We will probably never know exactly what happened but he was robbed of his wallet and shot in the head. The police arrested someone for the murder. The murderer is in his mid 20s, so not a teenager, but he has a very long history of committing violent crime. And yet he had no long jail sentences and was out on the street, free to murder my nephew. For a couple hundred bucks at most. Murdered. A beautiful young man who wouldn’t hurt a fly got his life taken for maximum a couple hundred dollars, probably less. What’s going on in DC aren’t just numbers and statistics and news stories for people to click on. Our family will never be the same. Something needs to happen. I wouldn’t wish this suffering on anyone. Anyone who makes light of what’s happening in DC should have to spend some time with a victim’s family.

Appalling. Our elected leaders care more about criminals than their victims.

Why shouldn't they? We elect them after all.

[Anonymous]

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This is what we vote, this is what we get.

Instead of posting the exact same meaningless pablum in every thread about crime, consider that your time would be better spent ranting on a street corner. At least then you'd get some fresh air.

What? Do you think hard-left politicians like Janeese Lewis George and Charles Allen are in the business of cracking down on crime? They most certainly are not.

I don't think any reasonable person would look at DC and conclude that everything is peachy keen. However, repeatedly bleating into the void "HURR DURR YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR" ignores the fact that much of the problems with DC's criminal justice system stem from entities unaccountable to the voting public. Unless Janeese Lewis George has taken up a position at the USAO and Charles Allen is moonlighting for CSOSA, tilting against those windmills accomplishes precisely nothing.

The "get what you vote for" PP should seek her catharsis elsewhere.

Not the PP, but have they put any pressure on those entities? At all? I expect my public servants to advocate, hold hearings, make demands. Have they? ^

I am fascinated to hear what demands you think the city council can make of federally-appointed prosecutors and judges. I wait with bated breath.

[Anonymous]

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This is what we vote, this is what we get.

Instead of posting the exact same meaningless pablum in every thread about crime, consider that your time would be better spent ranting on a street corner. At least then you'd get some fresh air.

What? Do you think hard-left politicians like Janeese Lewis George and Charles Allen are in the business of cracking down on crime? They most certainly are not.

I don't think any reasonable person would look at DC and conclude that everything is peachy keen. However, repeatedly bleating into the void "HURR DURR YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR" ignores the fact that much of the problems with DC's criminal justice system stem from entities unaccountable to the voting public. Unless Janeese Lewis George has taken up a position at the USAO and Charles Allen is moonlighting for CSOSA, tilting against those windmills accomplishes precisely nothing.

The "get what you vote for" PP should seek her catharsis elsewhere.

Not the PP, but have they put any pressure on those entities? At all? I expect my public servants to advocate, hold hearings, make demands. Have they? ^

I am fascinated to hear what demands you think the city council can make of federally-appointed prosecutors and judges. I wait with bated breath.

When everyone belongs to the same political party there are plenty ways to add pressure as PP above suggested.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
This is what we vote, this is what we get.

Instead of posting the exact same meaningless pablum in every thread about crime, consider that your time would be better spent ranting on a street corner. At least then you'd get some fresh air.

What? Do you think hard-left politicians like Janeese Lewis George and Charles Allen are in the business of cracking down on crime? They most certainly are not.

I don't think any reasonable person would look at DC and conclude that everything is peachy keen. However, repeatedly bleating into the void "HURR DURR YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR" ignores the fact that much of the problems with DC's criminal justice system stem from entities unaccountable to the voting public. Unless Janeese Lewis George has taken up a position at the USAO and Charles Allen is moonlighting for CSOSA, tilting against those windmills accomplishes precisely nothing.

The "get what you vote for" PP should seek her catharsis elsewhere.

Not the PP, but have they put any pressure on those entities? At all? I expect my public servants to advocate, hold hearings, make demands. Have they? ^

I am fascinated to hear what demands you think the city council can make of federally-appointed prosecutors and judges. I wait with bated breath.

When everyone belongs to the same political party there are plenty ways to add pressure as PP above suggested.

PP didn't suggest anything, she just waved her hands in the air and said "hold hearings, make demands!" as though that would accomplish anything at all. I'm asking how you - or anyone who cares to respond, really - think the city council can accomplish these things. USAO isn't accountable to the council. Federal judges aren't accountable to the council.

Shouting "I dunno, do something!" isn't helpful or constructive.