Longterm dc area residents, have you noticed decline ?

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Anonymous wrote:From a different thread re: Charles Allen

PP, an (not the only) issue is that Charles Allen does not support judges who seriously review and consider the originating offense when considering whether to grant this clemency. He wrote a letter scolding a judge who did (See below). Given that sexual violence crime recidivism is notably high, and given Charles Allen's record of intolerance for considering the nature of the crime among other factors, I firmly believe that anyone who supports Charles Allen is rape-friendly. Please educate yourself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local...4f7ec4a93_story.html

"Allen is so dead-set on this program that in July he chastised Judge Michael O’Keefe for denying a resentencing to Rodney C. Williams, who was convicted in 1983 of multiple burglaries and sexual assaults.
Both incensed and curious, I requested the full text of Allen’s letter to the judge and the full scope of Williams’s crimes from the Justice Department. The contents sickened me. In the letter, Allen chastised the judge for “rely[ing] heavily on the circumstances surrounding the original offenses, rather than evidence of his rehabilitation and conduct while incarcerated. Williams’s underlying offenses are relevant. Williams, along with other armed men, participated in four brutal home invasions. They raped women. On Sept. 8, 1982, they raped a mother and her 9-year-old daughter. The little girl screamed that “it hurt,” so they stopped raping her. Williams watched the little girl get raped and did nothing to help her. The judge was right to rely heavily on the underlying crimes when reviewing Williams’s early-release petition. Williams may have been only 17 years old when he raped women, but he destroyed their lives. Williams and all 24-year-old violent, sexual offenders should serve their full sentences. We owe that to victims."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-s...0e60391e9_story.html

"In a July 19 letter to Judge Michael O’Keefe obtained by The Washington Post, Allen took issue with the judge’s recent denial of a resentencing petition. The inmate, Rodney C. Williams, now 54, was arrested in 1982 and convicted the following year of multiple burglaries and sexual assaults, including the rape of a 9-year-old girl, according to court records. Allen wrote he believed O’Keefe relied “heavily on the circumstances surrounding the original offenses, rather than evidence of [Williams’s] rehabilitation and conduct while incarcerated for the past 37 years.”"

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/new-bill-s...apists-and-murderers

"More than 70 defendants have filed motions for sentence reduction or are in the process of doing so. To date, approximately 17 motions have been ruled on and only one petition has been denied. Of the 16 motions granted, 12 cases involved murders, two cases involved rapes, one case involved armed robbery, and one case involved armed kidnapping. Bureau of Prisons data suggests that of the 583 eligible criminals who could apply for early release under the proposed Amendment, one in three will reoffend within three years of release."

https://www.wusa9.com/article/features/produc...8e-9e19-37f55c35007b

"You're saying rapists and violent repeat offenders can go back on the street," Jefferies said. "Well, if you feel that way, then let them come into your ward, open your house and take them in."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lette...9227280c4_story.html

"There are many variables that need to be considered before releasing anyone from prison based on time served and good behavior. How do we know offenders have been successfully rehabilitated? Where are the assurances from offenders’ families that they can support a released person to prevent that person from falling back into criminal activity? How do the families of the victims feel?"

For those following the rape & murder case of Pava Lapere by Jason Billingsly in Baltimore, be aware that he might have been released far earlier under DC laws and that many currently on the Council may weaken those laws further. The focus on the violent offender must be shifted to the victims and public safety imho.

Yes, I called Allen's office at the time to complain about the above and received the talking points from his aide about how his rehab act wasn't violent rapist friendly at all. Except there was nothing to back that besides a waggly finger.

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Nothing like a quiet dinner on the water on a warm fall evening, am I right? Bring an out of town colleague or visiting family, what could be more lovely?

Are the risks of gunfire at dinner worth it? While going to a game (baseball or soccer)? With the kids? Going to The Anthem?

Now DC is on pace to perhaps have 1,000 carjackings in 2023.

How much is crime a factor in people resisting RTO? How much is crime hurting restaurants and the entertainment industry?

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing like a quiet dinner on the water on a warm fall evening, am I right? Bring an out of town colleague or visiting family, what could be more lovely?

Are the risks of gunfire at dinner worth it? While going to a game (baseball or soccer)? With the kids? Going to The Anthem?

Now DC is on pace to perhaps have 1,000 carjackings in 2023.

How much is crime a factor in people resisting RTO? How much is crime hurting restaurants and the entertainment industry?

A big factor, in my opinion. You want me to ride inside a metal tube where lawlessness reigns and do it several times a week, in the morning and afternoon? No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Are we headed to another control board type situation? Congressman/woman carjacked in Navy Yard Monday night (plus a swank restaurant was shot up).

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It's hard to imagine but we are in the same year when the "reformist" Council passed a crime bill that Congress and Dem Binden said NO to. Pinto's Emergency Bill has done little to stem surging carjackings, car thefts, shootings (including a homicide last night in McPherson Square park, 2 blocks from the WH) and robberies. Multiple restaurants have been sprayed with gunfire including a Shake Shack on Saturday close to Art All Night events and a high end place on the gentrified Wharf this evening.

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Dem Congressman from TX carjacked in Navy Yard earlier tonight

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing like a quiet dinner on the water on a warm fall evening, am I right? Bring an out of town colleague or visiting family, what could be more lovely?

Are the risks of gunfire at dinner worth it? While going to a game (baseball or soccer)? With the kids? Going to The Anthem?

Now DC is on pace to perhaps have 1,000 carjackings in 2023.

How much is crime a factor in people resisting RTO? How much is crime hurting restaurants and the entertainment industry?

A big factor, in my opinion. You want me to ride inside a metal tube where lawlessness reigns and do it several times a week, in the morning and afternoon? No thanks.

This is a little dramatic, speaking as someone who rides in this tube multiple times a week.

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Anonymous wrote:Dem Congressman from TX carjacked in Navy Yard earlier tonight

I’m so embarrassed to tell people I live in DC. This city is a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nothing like a quiet dinner on the water on a warm fall evening, am I right? Bring an out of town colleague or visiting family, what could be more lovely?

Are the risks of gunfire at dinner worth it? While going to a game (baseball or soccer)? With the kids? Going to The Anthem?

Now DC is on pace to perhaps have 1,000 carjackings in 2023.

How much is crime a factor in people resisting RTO? How much is crime hurting restaurants and the entertainment industry?

A big factor, in my opinion. You want me to ride inside a metal tube where lawlessness reigns and do it several times a week, in the morning and afternoon? No thanks.

All while cutting down ways to drive.

[Anonymous]

This sounds utterly terrifying

[Anonymous]

A Hispanic democrat from Texas getting carjacked by three black men in DC is a wonderful look.

Things are going to get a little saucy in the years ahead.

[Anonymous]

U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked tonight at gunpoint in DC as they stole his car and phone.

Well now, this should be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked tonight at gunpoint in DC as they stole his car and phone.

Well now, this should be interesting.

If he had just chose to ride a bike this never would have happened. #bikelanes4all

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r/washingtondc is of course, not allowing any discussion of this event regardless of sources cited. They and the Council are more focused on policing speech than the reality of the situation. Congress needs to lean on USA Graves HARD to get prosecutions up, maybe give them more resources. Schwab is useless re: juveniles, as is the Council, in general. They need to do some revisiting of their recent lenient legislation.

Watch, DC Justic Lab will twist this into more grist for the abolish police, abolish prisons chants. Maybe we are headed back to another control board, time will tell...

Allen did comment re: the shot up restaurant tonight, that it was "targeted" - basically, nothing to see here, move along tactic. Tell that to the people working and eating in the restaurant! Boom year for glass companies, whether storefronts or auto, amirite?!