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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it on Bowser.  In the article you posted a link to it says, 
[i]“the USAO doesn’t have enough evidence to build a case beyond a reasonable doubt.[/i]
[i]...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.”[/i]

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.[/quote]

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...."

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