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[quote=Anonymous]I’d like to preface this by saying I empathize with anyone out of work or experiencing homelessness or poverty. However, carjackings and crime is skyrocketing in DC. At the same time, the city Council has passed a bill to allow violent offenders who committed crimes before the age of 25 to be eligible for early release after 15 years of served time. We also saw Councilman Charles Allen and others pass the youth rehabilitation act, which honestly seems like we are encouraging slap on the wrist justice. Then you have a whole movement in the city of “don’t call the police if you see something that might not merit calling the police” because of the history of black offenders being killed disproportionately by the police. I don’t know how to square this whole thing. At what point will the police just step back and say hey this is what you voted for. I’ve lived in DC for my whole life. I’ve seen it since the berry years were nothing functioned and crime was out of control and we have the highest murder rate in America. We now have tons of new development, but we still have ingrained poverty, however this movement for police reform coupled with Wolka culture, I just don’t know if we’re going to see a retrogression to the crime levels of the 80’s.[/quote]

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