How do we get the D.C. government to care about crime?

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Anonymous wrote:We have "Vision Zero" for bicyclists getting hit by cars (which is very rare). How about "Vision Zero" for murder?

Start out small. How about Vision Zero for carjackings?

This is actually part of the problem. DC government probably will substantively address carjacking before murder because the priority in crime enforcement and prevention is only for public safety issues where white people can be victims.

The absurdity of it all is that the neglect eventually comes home to roost and the violence spills over into white neighborhoods. The folks screaming about “traffic violence” may get an actual taste of real violence.

Uh, what city do you live in? The D.C. government does not care about any crime, regardless of the victims' skin color.

You must have just arrived to the city after the day they shut down the whole white section because of a shooting where no one died except the shooter.

Uh, that was a mass shooter in a sniper nest going after dozens of random people. Same response would happen in Anacostia if a white guy was posted up doing the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do we get the D.C. government to care about crime?

Vote out the mayor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are too busy installing speed cameras in the poor parts of the city.

Yeah, streets EOTR should remain bloodbaths for pedestrians. Good call.

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Anonymous wrote:The only crime they care about is not paying all your traffic camera tickets.

Unless you live in MD or VA.

[Anonymous]

You idiots keep electing imbeciles so deal with the consequences. You’re comically stupid.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll save everyone some time and just say crime prevention takes a backseat to progressive criminal justice policy in furtherance of equity goals.

Essentially, the arrest statistics are so bad, and there is such a focus on not tearing away fathers from families or arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating teens, even if they commit violent crimes over and over again, that nothing of substance will be done.

Sure we’ll have politicians paying for “violence interruptors” and other rackets which studies prove don’t work, we’ll have restorative justice, and we’ll have lenient DAs who will focus on “harm reduction”, but this is all in the face of rising crime. Everyone knows just cracking down, tough policing and prison are the best deterrents, and actually work, but we’re in a new era where everything needs to spiral note out of control than it already has, before any policies that seriously deter crime are enacted. And now now cue up the social justice warrior posters who can’t believe how incentive i am. You can read the studies. They all show prison is the best deterrent for violent crime. Stop and frisk worked. Everyone hands are tied now and we just have to watch more puppies get robbed from people at gun point, teens car jacking cars to go on intagram joy rides without punishment and all the other. I’m sure Charles Allen will retool the Youth Rehabilitation Act again to revise the age it covers up to 34.

I am a teacher who fears a particular student may gravely harm me. Ot sure what to do as school can’t do anything and the student is a minor. He needs to be in a therapeutic home but his family is very dysfunctional and since he hasn’t yet been found guilty of any crimes I’m not sure what to do. If police become involved it would likely escalate the situation. Not sure where to turn.

I feel so horrible for you. Unfortunately I don’t think our government has a solution. And my brother replaced a teacher who was murdered in the classroom (in another city). These things happen. Protect yourself as the city is just going to leave you to be killed.

[Anonymous]

As liberal as I am, I care most about safety. Violent criminals need to be removed from society. If the bleeding heart advocates for fixing these broken people want to help them then they should set up programs to rehabilitate them while incarcerated rather than just setting them loose to commit more crime. These criminals need to earn our trust before being returned to our community.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are too busy installing speed cameras in the poor parts of the city.

Yeah, streets EOTR should remain bloodbaths for pedestrians. Good call.

A speed camera does exactly zero to address the immediate threat of a speeding car. If you actually cared and didn’t use Black bodies for your white, liberal props, you would realize that the real bloodbath is being caused by gun violence and nothing is being done to stop it.

[Anonymous]

I've heard DC is ineffective at going after out-of-state drivers with their speed cameras and red light cameras. It's kind of mind boggling that there are often times where here in SW DC 98% of the cars I see driving like idiots or choking Maine Ave with congestion are VA and MD plates.

If it's true that DC isn't going after these out-of-state drivers then that needs to be fixed immediately.

[Anonymous]

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A speed camera does exactly zero to address the immediate threat of a speeding car. If you actually cared and didn’t use Black bodies for your white, liberal props, you would realize that the real bloodbath is being caused by gun violence and nothing is being done to stop it.

How racist of you

[Anonymous]

You would need to convince DC that you are a more important constituent than perpetrators of crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've heard DC is ineffective at going after out-of-state drivers with their speed cameras and red light cameras. It's kind of mind boggling that there are often times where here in SW DC 98% of the cars I see driving like idiots or choking Maine Ave with congestion are VA and MD plates.

If it's true that DC isn't going after these out-of-state drivers then that needs to be fixed immediately.

It’s an urban legend that the urbanist crowd in DC have promoted. No matter where you live, if you get a ticket from a red light camera in DC they can and do send that ticket to collection for non-payment. Camera tickets are not considered traffic infractions. If you don’t pay, it will ruin your credit and they will send you to collections.

If you are a DC resident, you are not allowed to register your vehicle unless you pay all of your outstanding tickets, including traffic camera tickets. What DC wants is to have MD and VA agree that cars licensed in those states cannot be re-registered if they have outstanding traffic camera tickets in DC. This is not a scenario that other states have adopted.

In order to implement this, they would need to negotiate an agreement with MD and VA and neither MD or VA are interested in making such an agreement. There are currently agreements with MD related to resolution of traffic infractions, but since camera tickets are not traffic infractions they are not included and as a result DC cannot use other states police powers to enforce payment.

There are obvious reasons why neither MD nor VA would want to have their state agencies used as debt collectors for DC. However, they would and do this for actual traffic citations however DC is not interested in deploying the resources to issue actual, written traffic citations. Additionally, DC is quite notorious about making it impossible for people to get their camera tickets cancelled when their cars are stolen, which is a major and obvious issue for MD and VA where their residents cars are frequently stolen and driven into DC to commit crimes. If DC was interested in actually promoting public safety, they know what they need to do and yet refuse to do it because it’s all about revenue to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've heard DC is ineffective at going after out-of-state drivers with their speed cameras and red light cameras. It's kind of mind boggling that there are often times where here in SW DC 98% of the cars I see driving like idiots or choking Maine Ave with congestion are VA and MD plates.

If it's true that DC isn't going after these out-of-state drivers then that needs to be fixed immediately.

This is 100% correct. There is no ticket reciprocity between jurisdictions. So DC can't punish suburban drivers for dangerous driving by assigning points to their licenses or collecting on fines. It's insane.

Suburban politicians would have to sign off on it, which means it will never happen as no suburban pol has the integrity to ensure that dangerous suburban drivers are held responsible for their dangerous driving behavior in DC.

[Anonymous]

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A speed camera does exactly zero to address the immediate threat of a speeding car. If you actually cared and didn’t use Black bodies for your white, liberal props, you would realize that the real bloodbath is being caused by gun violence and nothing is being done to stop it.

How racist of you

I’m Black and I see you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've heard DC is ineffective at going after out-of-state drivers with their speed cameras and red light cameras. It's kind of mind boggling that there are often times where here in SW DC 98% of the cars I see driving like idiots or choking Maine Ave with congestion are VA and MD plates.

If it's true that DC isn't going after these out-of-state drivers then that needs to be fixed immediately.

This is 100% correct. There is no ticket reciprocity between jurisdictions. So DC can't punish suburban drivers for dangerous driving by assigning points to their licenses or collecting on fines. It's insane.

Suburban politicians would have to sign off on it, which means it will never happen as no suburban pol has the integrity to ensure that dangerous suburban drivers are held responsible for their dangerous driving behavior in DC.

This is incorrect. There is reciprocity. Speed camera fines are not traffic citations.