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Teens nearly kill Petworth dad because he says they can't use his b-ball hoop after 930pm
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Anonymous
One is 14 and one is 16. Already back home in the same neighborhood as assault. the victims are not told anything. I would be terrfied of retribution at this point. I garuantee you neither of them will be punished. How come we can't hold the parents responsbile for minors they are supposed to be in charge of. What kind of monster at age 14 tries to beat someone to death AND film it?? Hopefully CPS investigation is mandatory in these types of cases. |
Anonymous
How do you know this or are you just speculating? I would be terrified of them coming back too if I were this family. Frankly, I'd move. |
Anonymous
| I just read that Robert White’s mayoral bid includes a proposal for more boarding schools for at risk kids in DC. Even though the last two in dc closed and had numerous safety violations. The out of wedlock rate in Ward 7 is 85%. I’m sure there’s no correlation there with all the juvenile car jackings going on. Honestly and this is so messed up, but the only way for DC to see an end to its crime rates and issues is for the entire place to just gentrify out the trouble makers. That’s it. We saw massive development under Fenty and several previous mayors and it just needs to continue. We just need more condos and Starbucks and things to price people out who commit literally all the crime. |
Anonymous
Enforcing laws, prosecuting people, throwing folks in jail would also help. Most crimes are committed by a small number of recidivists. |
Anonymous
We can’t because some self-flagellating people, many of whom live a comfortable distance from the trouble in the nether regions of upper NW, plus some of the gentrifiers in dicier areas are happy to overpay property and income taxes to subsidize the ability of the trouble makers to continue living nearby with subsidized or free rents on their dime. We are tired of paying more to subsidize our quality of life problems—criminals, neighbors who keep their property like a junk yard, etc. We just sold and are moving. |
Anonymous
| If you gentrify the troublemakers out of DC, they’ll just pop up in other places in the suburbs and exurbs. Or it’ll be like San Francisco where parts of the city are upscale tourist paradises and other parts are total no-go zones with little in between. |
Anonymous
Yeah, that retired NYT reporter’s DC ambulance experience and subsequent death comes to mind. It was when Williams was still mayor. |
Anonymous
They are minors. Their status is none of your business. |
Anonymous
When they represent a threat to public safety, well, it kind of does become everyone's business. |
Anonymous
The suburbs have not problem with criminal prosecutions. We also have a much higher rate of homeowners with firearms. |
Anonymous
It would actually be more equitable to spread out around the beltway. Right now VA and MD are doing their best to dump all their homeless and criminals on DC. |
Anonymous
if they tried to beat my husband to death then it is my business. I would fear for my life. So why can't we sue the parents? The kids are too young for law enforcement so lets hold the parents accountable. |
Anonymous
This is a good example. Many care much more about the treatment of these minors then they do about their victims or the safety of the communities they are released back into. It is “none if your business” how many youth offenders are being released back in the community where they can commit more crimes of this nature. This is always going to be the D.C. model for approaching youth crime, at least for the foreseeable future—it’s important for people to understand this so that they can accurately assess the risks involved in deciding where to live and how to approach certain issues (i.e. don’t naively assume it’s safe to interact with groups of youths; call the police when appropriate—it’s better to be a healthy Karen then a good person who needs a bunch of facial reconstruction surgery). |
Anonymous
| Why is this not also being investigated as a hate crime? Imagine if four white teens beat a black parent into a pulp for no apparent reason. |
Anonymous
I couldn't remember the case so I looked it up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2006/02/25/the-death-of-david-rosenbaum/ed1cffe5-1219-46ec-8c33-4700f0657eb5/ https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17525758 |