In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true

[Anonymous]

It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a disturbing trend:

Four youth (two female and two male) not more that 13 or 14 years old are/were in the Hillcrest area (2000 block 34th ST SE) trying to steal cars. One of the boys knocked on a neighbors house, said he had a gun and demanded car keys and wallet. Car keys were handed over. Kids tried to start car and could not so fled down 34th across Alabama Ave.

This is a natural progression I think. Just look at any other really violent area - South Africa for example. Carjackings lead to armed home invasions.

This type of behavior also lives to people living in walled and armed compounds. The walled and armed compounds are common in South Africa.

The are called “security estates” and they are very pleasant places to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Decades of progress erased overnight. Will probably take 20-25 years again for improvement and there’s no way we’ve hit rock bottom yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Decades of progress erased overnight. Will probably take 20-25 years again for improvement and there’s no way we’ve hit rock bottom yet.

These folks seem completely incapable of changing course. Every thing that they try to do is more pathetic than the last: dashcams, airtags, mace, etc.

These folks are supposed to be liberals and their response to crime is either ideological, so you could say that it is libertarian to the extreme (ie “you are on your own”), or we can just come to the conclusion that they don’t know what to do or cannot do what they know they are supposed to do because of fear of personal embarrassment of admitting a mistake. There is no reason for them to change and DC politicians never voluntarily quit (unless they are indicted), so every one of these folks will be around indefinitely and it will be necessary to either defeat them in a primary or wait for them to retire. At this rate, it is going to take at least one full generation for DC to get political leaders that can admit there is a problem and propose time-honored solutions that work. That will be rock bottom. Following that, as we saw, it will take another generation to see results. Who has 30-40 years of their life to waste of this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Farmers market full of families a block away on a sunny Sunday morning.

[Anonymous]

We need to recall them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And, they got away.

So nice that she gets to live at the White House and have private security. Her grandad’s crazy immigration and policing policies leave the rest of us to defend for ourselves.

She lives in Georgetown, if you read the article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC crimes are not prosecuted. They declined to prosecute 67% of local arrests. Philly was only 4% to give an example
DC is allowing crime to happen and not chosing to prosecute it they are eventually asking for it and voters are supporting it

18.2% are cases in which a victim does not want to assist in the prosecution. According to Graves many of those are low level cases. He offered that one such group of cases is minor domestic violence in which D.C.’s “mandatory arrest” policy mandates police arrest someone.
13.9% are cases in which there is insufficient evidence.
7.2% are not prosecuted due to prosecutorial discretion.
2.9% are declined when prosecutors determine there is an affirmative defense such as self-defense.

- WAPO

DC is not particularly different from other cities, this doesn't explain why DCs prosecution rate is so low relative to cities that also experience urban crime and likely have the same issues.

Or why it began to change so radically in 2017 from prior DC prosecution rates that had been stable across both D and R appointed USAs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Farmers market full of families a block away on a sunny Sunday morning.

I feel incredibly bad for the hourly employees showing up for work and having a gun pointed at them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Remember earlier this summer when people #onhere tried to claim with a straight face crime wasn't that bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Remember earlier this summer when people #onhere tried to claim with a straight face crime wasn't that bad.

Do you mean “earlier today”? Because people on this very thread are throwing out “pearl clutchers” left and right…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

I wonder how folks are going to respond next year when it is announced that DC cannot afford bike lanes because it needs to build more juvenile detention facilities. That’s going to be interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down. And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly. And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder

From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.

Today, Bowser declared an emergency regarding youth violence and apparently is looking to use emergency powers to bolster up on juvenile detention facilities to get these kids off the streets. She's also declared an emergency on opioids.

https://mayor.dc.gov/release/mayor-bowser-issues-public-emergency-give-district-new-tools-responding-opioid-crisis-and

Narrators voice: “In retrospect keeping the kids out of school for two years and convincing them they’re owed reparations was a bad idea.”