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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's truly nothing people can do that the DCUM crowd won't find ways to nitpick and complain about[/quote]

I think the point is that after two years of the crime wave we really don’t need anymore meetings.  Everyone knows what needs to be done. We do, however, need to help Matt find the courage to let the police do what is necessary.  [/quote]

The police are just the first step in the process. Are people unaware that the federally appointed USAO Matt Graves declines to prosecute 67% of adult (and some juv) arrests, including felonies and gun crimes and elected AG Schwab does only slightly more prosecuting of juveniles? Both will be there and should feel pressure from the public re: safety. Graves can boost the numbers when he is under Congressional pressure or media scrutiny, then they drop again.

Prior to 2017, across USAOs appointed by Ds and Rs, the prosecution rate was in the 70s and the community was much safer. Now that stat has almost been flipped. We can see the result of 2/3 of arrests of adults NOT being prosecuted. 1,000 warrants for failure to appear or being non-compliant with terms of release have not been served, if federal marshals picked up those people, crime would plummet.

Frumin has little to do with the prosecution process or with much of the work of MPD. He organized the meeting, would people prefer he had not done so? One thing that can be done is providing more funds to the homicide unit and for detectives, when shifted away the closure rate dropped. Baltimore provided robust funds for investigations and is aggressively prosecuting and their homicide rate dropped below DC. Baltimore! Most major cities have seen a decline in homicides and violent crime, DC is an outlier.

Enough with the DSA propaganda that crime cannot decline until there are no more poor people in DC. They are showing how it is done just up 95. It is mainly poor POC who are victims of crimes, the status quo is unacceptable and racist, not "equitable." Far too many teens and children of color are shot and killed in DC, an 18 year old girl was murdered last night at a party in W3. Violent people need to be removed from the community.

More on the shooting last night and the death of the 18 year old young woman.

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/woman-shot-killed-northwest-dc-new-years-day/65-b79e5bbb-038a-4a98-92c3-606a639513f0[/quote]

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