Bowser is soft on crime
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Anonymous
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Why is it so hard to arrest people dealing drugs in broad daylight?
It's like the government is searching for reasons not to do anything. https://www.petworthnews.org/blog/park-view-frustrated |
Anonymous
| Can we ban "public safety walks"? This has become the "thoughts and prayers" of the DC government. |
Anonymous
| Of course she is but what is your point? Do you expect her to lock up her AA supports? |
Anonymous
| I know crime is bad, and homicides are at a 12-year high, but bike lanes! The DC is putting in more bike lanes! Look at that! |
Anonymous
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How is it on Bowser. In the article you posted a link to it says,
“the USAO doesn’t have enough evidence to build a case beyond a reasonable doubt. ...often there are no eye witnesses (or at least none who are willing to talk), witnesses are conflicted, or victims do not want to cooperate with prosecutors.” Do you understand the judicial process? You can arrest every young black male in DC (which I’m sure would suit you just fine) but that doesn’t mean they’re going to jail never to be seen again. Convictions are what keep criminals off the street and you need evidence and witnesses to convict which the Mayor can’t magically pull out her ass. |
Anonymous
Did you read the blog post? Which part of this seems ambiguous to you: "Residents say the property is occupied by a woman who harbors between seven and ten drug dealers at any given time. These dealers operate in plain sight, they say, dealing drugs on the street and dropping baggies out of the window to waiting customers. Residents say addicts pound on the woman’s door at all hours, demanding to be let in to get their fix. Then they lay out, high or drunk, on the sidewalk in front of the liquor store, on the benches in front of the CVS across the street, around the corner on Rock Creek Church Road. If the cops come, they wander to Newton Place, to Lamont Street, and to Park View Rec Center. They urinate on the street, they argue, and they brandish weapons. t was in front of this property that Malik was shot and killed.... A third resident, who said he has lived in the neighborhood for 50 years, fumed as he described fruitlessly asking police to intervene in the criminal activity occurring in front of their faces, in broad daylight. “There’s an officer there every day and he doesn’t move them, he doesn’t say anything to them, he tells me, ‘Hey, I can’t do nothing, they’re just on the sidewalk...." |
Anonymous
DC has the biggest police force in the country, on a per capita basis. DC also has the highest taxes in the country, on a per capita basis. It doesnt seem unreasonable to demand from our elected officials half-way decent government services in exchange for all that. |
Anonymous
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Sounds like those same residents got a lotta shit to say at meetings but are quiet as kept when the police are seeking witness statements.
Whose fault is that? |
Anonymous
| you dont need witnesses. it's all happening in the open. no one is hiding anything. anyone can stand on the sidewalk and watch them deal drugs. it's like hamsterdam in the wire. |
Anonymous
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the cops are too busy not solving crimes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/investigations/unsolved-homicide-database/ |
Anonymous
Well SOMEBODY needs to say before a grand jury, “I saw him/then doing this.” or no indictments will come about and the Mayor ain’t standing out there watching so that responsibility is gonna have to fall on others. |
Anonymous
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Who on the Council takes crime seriously?
What prosecutors at the AG’s office are working to get violent juveniles off the streets? What judges in the PDS-alumni club will keep murderers off the streets pending trial, let alone upon conviction? https://wtop.com/dc/2020/02/exclusive-dc-police-chief-criticizes-judges-decision-to-release-teen-charged-with-murder/ DC has precisely the criminal justice system it wants and has voted for. |
Anonymous
i love cops blaming the public for not doing their jobs for them. sometimes police work involves, well, police work. someone won't talk to you? find someone else. there's always someone who will talk. stop making excuses and make it happen. |
Anonymous
The moment local politicians stop being soft on crime is the moment that they loose votes. Bowser has to pacify her supports or risk loosing her mayoral seat. If you are an AA mayor, or politician, then you must excuse lots of dysfunction in order to get votes or maintain your seat. Folks will come after Bowser if she attempts to address crime. Unfortunately, she is caught between a rock and a hard place. Address crime and people especially AAs will not like her. Don't address crime and folks will scream that she is enforcing white supremacy policies to keep AAs down. Every politician especially Democrats know that in order to get and maintain the AA vote you most be soft on crime. This is a realty that no one is going to touch with a ten foot pole. It will be political suicide if any Democrat politician is not soft on crime. I feel sorry for many AA and Democrat politicians because in order to do what you know is right will make you unpopular with AA voters. Even if you are not a politician it is almost impossible to speak out against crimes in AA circles. I am AA and when I speak out about the dysfunction that exist in urban areas mass opposition unfolds. I have learned that in order to make peace you must go along with the status quo that white people are the cause of all of our problems including urban crime. I think Bowser and many Democrat politicians just throw their hands up and just give up. Being soft keeps AAs happy. If you want to be an AA politician in America, then then you better toe the line period. I don't blame Bowser. Behind close doors she may want to get hard on crime, but the optics will not benefit her. I know it is backwards. Sometimes the urban AA community operates in a upside down Alice in Wonderland type of world where normal to everyone else is consider not normal to them. What is normalize in many urban areas across the country is only considered dysfunctional to outsiders who are looking in. Crime is so normalize that it as become an identity for many urban AAs. This is the only world that they know. Even AAs like myself who are not accustomed to this thought process are shocked. It is an eye opening experience. The mental slavery that so many AAs in urban areas have is quite appalling to me. They love politicians who are soft. They feel like a soft politician can better relate to their struggle. Bowser like many other politicians is doing what she has to do. Good politicians must appease their flock not destroy it. Why are people surprise about Bowser being soft? Has anyone here ever a Democrat politician who was tough on crime? The two just do not correlate with each other. |
Anonymous
| Residents full of shit this ain’t a political failure it’s a community failure. You talk all this shit in meetings and online but you shake your head and keep walking when you witness the incidents. Don’t blame the pest control guy for the bugs if you aren’t willing to tell him where the roaches are. |