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Ward 6 resident here. Charles Allen panders too much to people soft on crime. His solution? Violence interrupters. What are those? They’re basically ex-cons strategically hired and placed in communities to try and stop violence by talking to those most likely to commit violence before it happens. Do they work? No. Most studies show they don’t reduce crime and may exacerbate it.

Why is he doing it? Because I hate the word, but “woke” pressure to use a more holistic, caring approach to crime, so as not to uproot community members and disrupt families, is being implemented.

What else is he doing? He is a big proposed of the Youth Rehabilitation Act and second chance law. Those laws let violent criminals out of jail early. They reduce sentence lengths. Also, he’s done nothing to dissuade teens from robbing people. The city is very lenient on that and it’s basically catch and release.

I would love to vote for someone tougher. Honestly, even Denise Krepp if she ran. She tried to subpoena crime records from DOJ for years, but appears to have been stymied at every turn. I’m sick of politicians pandering to violent elements at the expense of tax paying citizens who contribute greatly to the tax base.

Can you share some links to studies about the efficacy (or not) of crime interrupters? There was an Ezra Klein podcast episode recently that went through some studies that found those types of interventions pretty effective in lowering crime. (This isn't meant to be a "show your sources" response, I am actually interested in seeing the studies bc I was surprised that there seemed to be so much empirical support for something that intuitively seems like it wouldn't work).

This Vox story says the evidence suggests they do very little and in fact may be making crime worse:

https://www.vox.com/22622363/police-violence-inter...s-cure-violence-research-study
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Yep. And the Vox story points out that the studies which have been done are the types of anecdotal studies that typically can give overly positive results.  So the fact that the studies are less than stellar actually suggests that the results from more evidence-based research would be more damning.  What DOES work is the type of focused, hot spot approaches which are derided by the DC Council's progressives.  I so want to vote out the Nadeau/Allen/White/Silverman faction. [/quote]

Allen would be a great councilmember if he didn’t have his head up his a** about crime. He’s great on education and he has great constituent support services. But the crime thing is really a dealbreaker. People don’t feel safe (because they aren’t). [/quote]

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