Services are voluntary and few have any desire whatsoever to change. The mantra is a joke. |
| When Mary Chen had social workers staffing Sedgwick Gardens, residents made only 2 contacts over 18 months. Now that building has seen a child murdered. Wrap around services is an expensive con by grifting “providers.” |
You're such a dumb**. |
| It seems that many people who moved here from small towns assume that crime is just part of life in the city and are ignorant to how much less crime there was in DC a decade ago. |
It’s sad that D.C. residents have been beaten into submission by their politicians. District Stockholm Syndrome(DSS) |
This. There was 88 murders in 2012 and this was still far worse than New York, which had 419 murders and 13x as many people. In 2025 DC has 101 murders and New York has 201. |
If only our current Councilman had thoughts on this situation. |
| They don't really want to reduce crime! Don't you get it? It's scapegoating and political theater. They want to provoke people and bust heads so they can claim it's a war zone and best of all if they provoke and arrest BIPOC. Coming soon to all blue cities. Stop trying to argue back rationally and as if it's real. They don't care. |
And El Salvador is the safest... |
| It's better to incarcerate more and have a safe community than few and an unsafe |
Over-incarceration has it's downsides (being inhumane is a big one). A balance is ideal. |
That's an opinion not a fact |
Interesting. What's going on with American Samoa, Tonga and Guam? Drug running? Some sort of smuggling? Kinda weird, because Guam is a big DoD location. |
Because you aren't offering the right wraparound services. |
If we know (or WAMU knows) just 500 young men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of DC crime, it begs the obvious question: - why are these 500 repeat offenders not in prison? A complete failure of D.C. laws, regulations, and restrictions on police, is the only answer I can come up with. Agree or disagree? |