Ward 4 Election

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No, retail theft is not equivalent to murder but it harms businesses and eventually causes stores to leave. What is wrong with good old fashioned community service. Kids in bright yellow vests forced to be out picking up trash, cleaning up graffiti, essentially being obligated to do something positive for their own community to atone for the damage thievery does to the social fabric.


You're describing slavery, not community service.

This W4 resident supports JLGs amendment, in line with 46 states. It doesn't legalize theft under 1,000, it's just not a felony on the first offense.

You seriously think that being required to perform community service is "slavery"?? You sound like a 10 year old child complaining about household chores. We need appropriate consequences tied to the offense. We don't need to lock up juveniles for shoplifting. But they do need to be required to have some consequences. "Restorative" justice isn't just some surly teen muttering an apology they don't mean. It's having to actually do something to remediate damage so that there is an understanding that everyone is part of a community that needs to function together. It's logical consequences---like requiring vandals to clean graffiti off walls. Chronic retail theft damages communities in that retail stores will leave, thus creating retail "deserts" for the elderly---who may not have the means or ability to drive to shop or aren't tech savvy to order on-line (and even if they did, the unpunished package thieves will just steal off the stoop). Kids---particularly kids who are coming from dysfunctional family situations--do not understand those type of linkages until those linkages are explained and they are required to complete some action in connection with them.

+100
Well said. One of the reasons restorative justice fails in general is because it isn’t properly implemented. Right now it basically hurts the victim more because they have to sit in a room and just accept an apology from the perpetrator. It’s zero consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People in DC need to be prosecuted and jailed for gun crimes.

Gun crimes are felonies and thus prosecuted by the feds. What does Janeese have to do with this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People in DC need to be prosecuted and jailed for gun crimes.

Gun crimes are felonies and thus prosecuted by the feds. What does Janeese have to do with this?

Some of the critics are pretty uneducated. One guy was posting on the neighborhood list criticism of JLG based on the "$200M DC budget" and how there was nothing to fund the police in there... He was looking at a list of highlights and thought that was the full budget.
Meanwhile, MPD appears to be fully funded to whatever they wanted. Not so lucky with DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Another scary shooting in Ward 4 last night. A block very near where I live and where kids are out playing all the time. Unheard of in that area 5 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another scary shooting in Ward 4 last night. A block very near where I live and where kids are out playing all the time. Unheard of in that area 5 years ago.

Rare, but not unheard of. And still pretty rare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another scary shooting in Ward 4 last night. A block very near where I live and where kids are out playing all the time. Unheard of in that area 5 years ago.

Where was this? I was not aware of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same wave that took out Elissa Silverman, that will soon take out Charles Allen, that *hopefully* will take out Brianne Nadeau, will also take out Janeese.

There's a pretty clear backlash against the hard left nutjobs on the city council.

I would be very surprised. In my part of Ward 4 (Brightwood/Takoma) my neighbors heavily support Janeese and will turn out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:oh look janeese is now trying to weaken the crime bill before the council. she says it's too tough (ha!). the mayor is urging her to back off. june can't come soon enough. janeese needs to go.

June's here! and JLG is running away with it

[Anonymous]

Yikes, early counts not looking good for the trolls here claiming to represent everyone. It'll be interesting to see how that changes as the rest are counted.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Janeese, Robert White and Trayon are going to win:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/04/dc-primary-election-2024/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Janeese, Robert White and Trayon are going to win:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/04/dc-primary-election-2024/

Great, means people can keep blaming JLG everytime they trip on a sidewalk and stub a toe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Janeese, Robert White and Trayon are going to win:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/04/dc-primary-election-2024/

Great, means people can keep blaming JLG everytime they trip on a sidewalk and stub a toe.

Meanwhile an elderly woman was murdered yesterday in a carjacking, but go on about how folks are being histrionic about crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Janeese, Robert White and Trayon are going to win:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/06/04/dc-primary-election-2024/

Great, means people can keep blaming JLG everytime they trip on a sidewalk and stub a toe.

Meanwhile an elderly woman was murdered yesterday in a carjacking, but go on about how folks are being histrionic about crime.

Thank you for your detailed analysis of how JLG's policies led to that. Truly insightful. I'm sure all of Ward 4 will be swayed now and vote her out.

Or... You have no idea what you're talking about AND Ward 4 doesn't agree with you.

[Anonymous]

Welp, classic DC.

[Anonymous]

Janeese cruises to victory. Meanwhile, bitter old DCUM harpies continue to pretend the sky is falling.