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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.

We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.

Who in local politics can make this happen?[/quote]

Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.

And that is racist.

Full stop.  Never gonna happen.

DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.[/quote]

Agree.

The USAO has always been a fed appointee, but prior to 2017, the prosecution rate was stable, under D & R appointees, at over 70%. Now the no paper rate almost equals that and has risen under Obama, Trump and Biden. Clearly there is an issue with the career prosecutors, the constant. It is a complete outlier among D cities. When there was a plan to bring more gun cases in fed court, they refused. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html Now the DC Court of appeals is making it much harder to bring gun cases. All of the dominos fall the opposite or the way you want, OP.

The zeitgeist has done a 180 from 3 strikes in the 90s and the philosophical bent of everyone from judges to politicians to prosecutors is reflecting it. [/quote]

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