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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's time.

It's time for every council member and bleeding heart pundit who runs around saying "but they are just kids, they don't know the consequences" to just shut up and sit down.  And it's time to treat these serious, violent crimes like armed robbery and carjacking as the adult crimes they are, and to police them and prosecute them accordingly.  And to hold those who fail to do so accountable, regardless of where they are in the chain, whether MPD or other LEOs, whether Council, the Mayor, the Prosecutors, the Courts, the detention and probation, ALL of them need to start being held accountable.

These kids committing those crimes DAMN WELL DO understand the consequences.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/viral-video-dc-teens-discussing-difference-criminal-charges-armed-carjacking-robbery-murder[/quote]
From what I can tell, it’s going to take a lot more to force these people to admit failure and lead DC out of this mess than current crime levels.[/quote]

Decades of progress erased overnight. Will probably take 20-25 years again for improvement and there’s no way we’ve hit rock bottom yet.[/quote]
These folks seem completely incapable of changing course. Every thing that they try to do is more pathetic than the last: dashcams, airtags, mace, etc.

These folks are supposed to be liberals and their response to crime is either ideological, so you could say that it is libertarian to the extreme (ie “you are on your own”), or we can just come to the conclusion that they don’t know what to do or cannot do what they know they are supposed to do because of fear of personal embarrassment of admitting a mistake. There is no reason for them to change and DC politicians never voluntarily quit (unless they are indicted), so every one of these folks will be around indefinitely and it will be necessary to either defeat them in a primary or wait for them to retire. At this rate, it is going to take at least one full generation for DC to get political leaders that can admit there is a problem and propose time-honored solutions that work. That will be rock bottom. Following that, as we saw, it will take another generation to see results. Who has 30-40 years of their life to waste of this?[/quote]

The term you are looking for here is "Anachro-Tyranny." Criminals can do whatever they want, but if you attempt to defend yourself then the full weight of the law will come down on you. Being merely "on your own" would be a drastic improvement. [/quote]

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