Racial Equity Assessment of the Secure DC Act

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

Unfortunately one part of the equity movement is an industry and jobs program. It kind of depends on problems NEVER getting solved, even worsening

[Anonymous]

Someday there will be a book written about how people with completely worthless ethic and gender studies degrees protested themselves into the C Suite and great wealth. It’s been the greatest con of this young century.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That Scott Goldstein’s twitter is a read of an alternate reality.

Listening to the Goldsteins of the world is why this city is in such bad shape.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I'd be surprised if the council pays much attention to this report. The politics have changed. People of all color want more enforcement and stiffer penalties. But good to write to council members just in case they get wobbly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

Unfortunately one part of the equity movement is an industry and jobs program. It kind of depends on problems NEVER getting solved, even worsening

The poverty and grievance industrial complex.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, I'd be surprised if the council pays much attention to this report. The politics have changed. People of all color want more enforcement and stiffer penalties. But good to write to council members just in case they get wobbly.

They slow rolled the vote to give the activist crowd time to ramp up PR campaigns. They just tried (and will try again w/o spotlight) to elevate a murderer (with no relevant credentials) to the Sentencing Commission. That was Mendelson's doing. They are just as captured by DC Justice Lab and The Sentencing Project (who already has one member on the Sentencing Commission representing the decarceral position, so Council wants to add a second affiliated with that small org.)

A swift, decisive vote and no Sentencing Commission nonsense would have indicated the politics have changed.

DCJL trumpets that they write legislation for the Council and the talking points, shouldn't their funding be required to be transparent, given their outsized influence/control?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

Unfortunately one part of the equity movement is an industry and jobs program. It kind of depends on problems NEVER getting solved, even worsening

And it seems to depend on perpetuating historic beliefs even when they are not currently valid, like "systemic racism" - As pointed out, DC has been black-run for decades, and to claim that poor blacks in DC are poor because whitey is oppressing them would have had some basis in fact in the 1950s with big centralized urban renewal projects that displaced blacks but no longer has much bite as an argument for the last 30 years or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

Unfortunately one part of the equity movement is an industry and jobs program. It kind of depends on problems NEVER getting solved, even worsening

The poverty and grievance industrial complex.

As cities on the West Coast have stepped back from some of this, the hold on the DC Council has only grown. I believe DC Justice Lab took credit for writing 4 crime bills in 1 year, not lobbied about, WROTE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

This is why I pick Nikki! Sending money to her campaign now. Breath of fresh air.

[Anonymous]

You have 6 reps on the Council, please reach out to your CM, Mendelson and the 4 at large members and express your views on the bill. Encourage neighbors to do so as well.

I also said I expected them to nominate a different candidate for the Sentencing Commission, one with expertise and a focus on victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

Unfortunately one part of the equity movement is an industry and jobs program. It kind of depends on problems NEVER getting solved, even worsening

And it seems to depend on perpetuating historic beliefs even when they are not currently valid, like "systemic racism" - As pointed out, DC has been black-run for decades, and to claim that poor blacks in DC are poor because whitey is oppressing them would have had some basis in fact in the 1950s with big centralized urban renewal projects that displaced blacks but no longer has much bite as an argument for the last 30 years or so.

Even slavery wasn't racist because some Black people owned slaves and some overseers were Black.

/s

[Anonymous]

A wise person’s heart inclines them to the right, but a fool’s heart to the left.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

They do. And it's my party. It's a feel-good place to be -- getting rid of racism. It doesn't get much better than that, and it's addictive. But when you really drill down into the details, you see that things are not as simple as they seem. And crime is one of them. Yes, there is differential offending. Yes, there is differential victimization. Vulnerable communities of color are more susceptible to victimization than anyone. Equity likely means pouring more police resources into those communities, because, as the racial equity impact assessment says, public safety is a public good, and it is the foundation from which everything else can thrive - housing, education, health, careers.

The answer isn't no police and no punishment. The answer is professional police and right-sized punishments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^while everyone bickers over ideology and grabs at $, it is poor black people who are paying the price...why don't black victims matter, only black criminals? How many dead black DC children will be ENOUGH to merit a change of course?

Because some of the folks demanding these types of racial equity analyses don't care about Black people at all. They care about increasing their own power and reach, and anti racism is how they do it. They can say and do anything they want in the name of anti racism. And those who oppose are per se racist.

And they all seem to be from the same party.

They do. And it's my party. It's a feel-good place to be -- getting rid of racism. It doesn't get much better than that, and it's addictive. But when you really drill down into the details, you see that things are not as simple as they seem. And crime is one of them. Yes, there is differential offending. Yes, there is differential victimization. Vulnerable communities of color are more susceptible to victimization than anyone. Equity likely means pouring more police resources into those communities, because, as the racial equity impact assessment says, public safety is a public good, and it is the foundation from which everything else can thrive - housing, education, health, careers.

The answer isn't no police and no punishment. The answer is professional police and right-sized punishments.

Unequal policing of communities is racist. Blacks do not commit crimes at a higher rates than Whites.