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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]The point though is, even with a carjacking, that if the judiciary is overwhelmed as it already is, they don’t get prosecuted, as they already don’t, and it all gets much much worse.[/quote]

Do you know why — in your words — carjackings are not prosecuted now? If so, do you now the impact on those factors of proposed revisions? It seems like you are making predictions that might not have a solid basis. Do you even know how many carjackers are arrested and then not prosecuted? If so, what are the reasons for the lack of prosecution?[/quote]

Do you? I don’t, and that’s why I think I’m patronized by the DC Council more so than by the Congress. At least some DC Councilpersons does not use the word crime or carjacking — search their statements or Twitter feed. Why is that? How is that less ideological than not using the word abortion (this happened in a situation I used to be in)? I lived through a lack of free thought and this is reminiscent.

There’s an easy way out of this. Take both bills. Publish websites with the tables summarizing but then going over every change and its implication. Then put it to the people to vote. We assume people want it but the one poll was pretty bogus. These bills are now so radioactive that this is the way forward if we are committed to the democracy.

By the way? I’m pro rehabilitation all the way, no more than 20 years for anything. But this is a badly written, unimplementable legislation unless I can read to satisfy myself otherwise. [/quote]

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