43 Vehicle Thefts in DC in First 3 Days of 2024

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period.

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue.

I think you, respectfully, need to step back from your privileged position and take a look at how the crime impacts those with less resources then you if you think 20-30 years in prison is a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for stealing a car.

Imagine you are a poor single mother. Let’s say one day some kid steals the car you worked hard to afford. You now have no transportation, you cannot get to work, so you lose your job. You cannot fet your kids to school, so they get in trouble for absenteeism and ultimately expelled, and you can’t get to the grocery store, so you are forced to feed your kids what is available at the corner store, which leads to them getting obese and having to deal with the medical complications of that.

I hope you can see that stealing the car didn’t just steal this single mother’s physical item, but it was stealing her sole mode of transportation and he dignity. Sure, when your car is stolen, maybe you have the privilege to just laugh on the drive over to the Maserati dealership about how you wanted to buy a new car anyway, but for the vast majority of people, losing their car is a serious, often unrecoverable disaster.

So, tell me how 20-30 years in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment in this case? How is such a violent and evil crime not worth a punishment that matches its severity, and how do we tell the victims that such evil only justifies a slap on the wrist?

That's why we have insurance, GoFundme, DC has the crime victims compensation fund, other resources to help with schooling and job resources.

Oh, so “She should just go fund me a new car!”

You are such a cruel, cruel individual if you think that response answered anything. Insurance does not pay out the full value of the car, and her insurance costs will sky rocket. Again, just because buying a new car is like pocket change for you does not mean it’s as easy or reasonable to the vast majority of DC residents.

Also, why should we, as taxpayers, pay for a crime victim’s fund to pay for her car, when the answer is right in front of us: we need to prevent the car theft in the first place through instituting reasonable punishments against individuals committing such heinous crimes. It’s great we have these resources, and I fully support them, but we as citizens cannot afford to keep buying people car after car after care after their cars are stolen rather then actually putting in place common sense preventative measures to prevent the theft in the first case. It does not make economic sense.

The mother in your hypothetical scenario would be better off without a car. She would be in better health if she used a bike or public transit like the rest of us.

No one needs a car in the city. It’s a luxury that is leading to rampant crime. We are all better off without them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period.

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue.

A father who is in jail would likely make a lousy parent out of jail.

You’ve never heard why 3 strikes you are out was a failure did ya!

Actually I remember the peace and calm that followed when 3 strikes was implemented. It turned around the high crime of the 80s-90s and needs to be brought back.

As a lifelong D I have to admit this is true

Made a huge difference.

+4

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period.

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue.

I think you, respectfully, need to step back from your privileged position and take a look at how the crime impacts those with less resources then you if you think 20-30 years in prison is a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for stealing a car.

Imagine you are a poor single mother. Let’s say one day some kid steals the car you worked hard to afford. You now have no transportation, you cannot get to work, so you lose your job. You cannot fet your kids to school, so they get in trouble for absenteeism and ultimately expelled, and you can’t get to the grocery store, so you are forced to feed your kids what is available at the corner store, which leads to them getting obese and having to deal with the medical complications of that.

I hope you can see that stealing the car didn’t just steal this single mother’s physical item, but it was stealing her sole mode of transportation and he dignity. Sure, when your car is stolen, maybe you have the privilege to just laugh on the drive over to the Maserati dealership about how you wanted to buy a new car anyway, but for the vast majority of people, losing their car is a serious, often unrecoverable disaster.

So, tell me how 20-30 years in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment in this case? How is such a violent and evil crime not worth a punishment that matches its severity, and how do we tell the victims that such evil only justifies a slap on the wrist?

That's why we have insurance, GoFundme, DC has the crime victims compensation fund, other resources to help with schooling and job resources.

Oh, so “She should just go fund me a new car!”

You are such a cruel, cruel individual if you think that response answered anything. Insurance does not pay out the full value of the car, and her insurance costs will sky rocket. Again, just because buying a new car is like pocket change for you does not mean it’s as easy or reasonable to the vast majority of DC residents.

Also, why should we, as taxpayers, pay for a crime victim’s fund to pay for her car, when the answer is right in front of us: we need to prevent the car theft in the first place through instituting reasonable punishments against individuals committing such heinous crimes. It’s great we have these resources, and I fully support them, but we as citizens cannot afford to keep buying people car after car after care after their cars are stolen rather then actually putting in place common sense preventative measures to prevent the theft in the first case. It does not make economic sense.

The mother in your hypothetical scenario would be better off without a car. She would be in better health if she used a bike or public transit like the rest of us.

No one needs a car in the city. It’s a luxury that is leading to rampant crime. We are all better off without them.

Poor trolling attempt. 1/10

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shhhhh. There is nothing to see here. If you don’t tell, then I won’t tell the insurance companies.

When our car was stolen it was treated as a "property crime" and "insurance would handle it". Kind of like businesses being robbed on repeat or having their windows smashed.
DC Government is so myopic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period.

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue.

I think you, respectfully, need to step back from your privileged position and take a look at how the crime impacts those with less resources then you if you think 20-30 years in prison is a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for stealing a car.

Imagine you are a poor single mother. Let’s say one day some kid steals the car you worked hard to afford. You now have no transportation, you cannot get to work, so you lose your job. You cannot fet your kids to school, so they get in trouble for absenteeism and ultimately expelled, and you can’t get to the grocery store, so you are forced to feed your kids what is available at the corner store, which leads to them getting obese and having to deal with the medical complications of that.

I hope you can see that stealing the car didn’t just steal this single mother’s physical item, but it was stealing her sole mode of transportation and he dignity. Sure, when your car is stolen, maybe you have the privilege to just laugh on the drive over to the Maserati dealership about how you wanted to buy a new car anyway, but for the vast majority of people, losing their car is a serious, often unrecoverable disaster.

So, tell me how 20-30 years in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment in this case? How is such a violent and evil crime not worth a punishment that matches its severity, and how do we tell the victims that such evil only justifies a slap on the wrist?

That's why we have insurance, GoFundme, DC has the crime victims compensation fund, other resources to help with schooling and job resources.

Oh, so “She should just go fund me a new car!”

You are such a cruel, cruel individual if you think that response answered anything. Insurance does not pay out the full value of the car, and her insurance costs will sky rocket. Again, just because buying a new car is like pocket change for you does not mean it’s as easy or reasonable to the vast majority of DC residents.

Also, why should we, as taxpayers, pay for a crime victim’s fund to pay for her car, when the answer is right in front of us: we need to prevent the car theft in the first place through instituting reasonable punishments against individuals committing such heinous crimes. It’s great we have these resources, and I fully support them, but we as citizens cannot afford to keep buying people car after car after care after their cars are stolen rather then actually putting in place common sense preventative measures to prevent the theft in the first case. It does not make economic sense.

The mother in your hypothetical scenario would be better off without a car. She would be in better health if she used a bike or public transit like the rest of us.

No one needs a car in the city. It’s a luxury that is leading to rampant crime. We are all better off without them.

Please tell me this f*ckhead is joking or a Russian troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We need 20-30 year mandatory minimum sentences for any car theft. Period.

The Supreme Court would disagree with you! Moreover, that is cruel & unusual punishment. We need more social services and campaign push for helping fathers parent. Many of the kids stealing probably don't have fathers in the home because the fathers are away in jail. More jail will not resolve the issue.

I think you, respectfully, need to step back from your privileged position and take a look at how the crime impacts those with less resources then you if you think 20-30 years in prison is a ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for stealing a car.

Imagine you are a poor single mother. Let’s say one day some kid steals the car you worked hard to afford. You now have no transportation, you cannot get to work, so you lose your job. You cannot fet your kids to school, so they get in trouble for absenteeism and ultimately expelled, and you can’t get to the grocery store, so you are forced to feed your kids what is available at the corner store, which leads to them getting obese and having to deal with the medical complications of that.

I hope you can see that stealing the car didn’t just steal this single mother’s physical item, but it was stealing her sole mode of transportation and he dignity. Sure, when your car is stolen, maybe you have the privilege to just laugh on the drive over to the Maserati dealership about how you wanted to buy a new car anyway, but for the vast majority of people, losing their car is a serious, often unrecoverable disaster.

So, tell me how 20-30 years in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment in this case? How is such a violent and evil crime not worth a punishment that matches its severity, and how do we tell the victims that such evil only justifies a slap on the wrist?

That's why we have insurance, GoFundme, DC has the crime victims compensation fund, other resources to help with schooling and job resources.

Oh, so “She should just go fund me a new car!”

You are such a cruel, cruel individual if you think that response answered anything. Insurance does not pay out the full value of the car, and her insurance costs will sky rocket. Again, just because buying a new car is like pocket change for you does not mean it’s as easy or reasonable to the vast majority of DC residents.

Also, why should we, as taxpayers, pay for a crime victim’s fund to pay for her car, when the answer is right in front of us: we need to prevent the car theft in the first place through instituting reasonable punishments against individuals committing such heinous crimes. It’s great we have these resources, and I fully support them, but we as citizens cannot afford to keep buying people car after car after care after their cars are stolen rather then actually putting in place common sense preventative measures to prevent the theft in the first case. It does not make economic sense.

The mother in your hypothetical scenario would be better off without a car. She would be in better health if she used a bike or public transit like the rest of us.

No one needs a car in the city. It’s a luxury that is leading to rampant crime. We are all better off without them.

Also, no needs a jacket in the city. It's a luxury leading to rampant crime.

[Anonymous]

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She should have used a gas delivery service.

[Anonymous]

The answer of course is severe prison time.

Not too many people are going to do this if they are looking at 20-30.

But no one is looking at anything anymore in DC. We are one of the few cities where violent crime is still going up.

It's absurd.

And it's killing DC.

It's not hard. Soft on violent crime is destroying the city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer of course is severe prison time.

Not too many people are going to do this if they are looking at 20-30.

But no one is looking at anything anymore in DC. We are one of the few cities where violent crime is still going up.

It's absurd.

And it's killing DC.

It's not hard. Soft on violent crime is destroying the city.

Prison time is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer of course is severe prison time.

Not too many people are going to do this if they are looking at 20-30.

But no one is looking at anything anymore in DC. We are one of the few cities where violent crime is still going up.

It's absurd.

And it's killing DC.

It's not hard. Soft on violent crime is destroying the city.

Prison time is racist.

People cry about the inequity in prison sentences for crack and cocaine, but harsh prison sentences effectively ended the slaughter in the streets during the crack wars, so I was OK with them. Don't recall a similar slaughter in the suburbs over cocaine powder, but if equity was the issue, I would have given harsh senteces for that too rather than lower crack sentencing when crack was causing daily shoot outs. Anyhow, harsh prison sentences saved a lot of lives. Then the but racism! pendulum swung, and now we have no laws and sentencing. But everyone feels good right? no worries that even today the primary victims are urban poor?
We need to toughen up buttercup on our laws and sentencing (as well as actually ensure that reform - ie academic and life skills--is offered to incarcerated youth, or call in the Guard for some kind of lockdown. Otherwise, we are all just bowling pins for these teenage criminals. We all know who they are. It's time to stop admiring the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shhhhh. There is nothing to see here. If you don’t tell, then I won’t tell the insurance companies.

When our car was stolen it was treated as a "property crime" and "insurance would handle it". Kind of like businesses being robbed on repeat or having their windows smashed.
DC Government is so myopic.

MPD won’t lift a finger to help you when your car is stolen in DC. Like: nothing at all. If insurance wants a report, maybe you get a sheet of paper from MPD. But their “help” ends there.

The city council banned the police from vehicular pursuits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shhhhh. There is nothing to see here. If you don’t tell, then I won’t tell the insurance companies.

When our car was stolen it was treated as a "property crime" and "insurance would handle it". Kind of like businesses being robbed on repeat or having their windows smashed.
DC Government is so myopic.

MPD won’t lift a finger to help you when your car is stolen in DC. Like: nothing at all. If insurance wants a report, maybe you get a sheet of paper from MPD. But their “help” ends there.

The city council banned the police from vehicular pursuits.

Yep..not a finger

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shhhhh. There is nothing to see here. If you don’t tell, then I won’t tell the insurance companies.

When our car was stolen it was treated as a "property crime" and "insurance would handle it". Kind of like businesses being robbed on repeat or having their windows smashed.
DC Government is so myopic.

MPD won’t lift a finger to help you when your car is stolen in DC. Like: nothing at all. If insurance wants a report, maybe you get a sheet of paper from MPD. But their “help” ends there.

The city council banned the police from vehicular pursuits.

Even when it's not a pursuit, like you have an AirTag and you can point to them exactly where the stolen car is sitting, stationary... they still won't act.

Lazy, irresponsible asses. MPD is contributing to the crime crisis.

[Anonymous]

People who don't like current trends, take 5 minutes and reach out to your Councilmember, Mendelson and the 4 At Large Members, all represent you and urge them to support this bill. The debate has been largely controlled by activists, many of whom don't even live here.