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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC’s attorney general, Brian Schwalb, recently made this statement in response to the DC carjacking / crime spike during a community forum.

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Some on DCUM feel Council-member Charles Allen has been unfairly scape-goated over crime in DC, and they - rightly  - bring up Brian Schwalb as someone who (if we are to blame city leaders) is just as much or more at fault.  Setting aside Allen for the moment,

- Is our attorney general right?  Is it impossible to deter or ameliorate crime by arresting and prosecuting criminals ?  Agree or disagree? [/quote]

Disagree.  It’s completely possible.  Ask anyone who grew up in or around NYC in the late 1980’s.  NYC was a total sewer.  Really not that far off from the movie Warriors.  Giuliani (before he went insane) was elected in 1994 and cleaned up the city.  It was an amazing renaissance.  NYC was amazing in the late 1990s.  [/quote]

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