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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]just give them the money so that they will have time to work on improving themselves[/quote]

UBI is definitely a goal of groups promoting a decarceral agenda. And as someone upthread said, public safety is being held hostage to further that agenda, but it's a bait and switch, these groups also profit from chaos. Their goal will never be to do what Baltimore is doing so successfully. And these groups are controlling DC govt.

But "work on themselves" is a very middle class and elitist attitude, PP.

Why don't we focus on helping people who ARE NOT behaving violently towards others? Why don't we focus on safety as a fundamental for all and remove those who are dangerous? On Maslow's hierarchy of need, safety is very fundamental.

Who is benefitting from turning DC into Gotham? [/quote]

We will be judged by how we treat the most vulnerable in our society. These people have literally nothing and you refuse to give them anything. How will they better themselves? [/quote]

The poor in DC have housing, health care, free schools, free metro cards, etc., etc.

Your BS does not effectively deflect from the fact that lax decarceral policies disproportionately result in DEAD AND SHOT POOR BLACK PEOPLE. How will they better themselves if DEAD? GTFO with your nonsense. [/quote]

Housing can be housing but not adequate housing. There are plenty of WashPo articles about the truly poor living in rat/roach and other bug infested apartments while the landlords collect city money and don't provide repairs. Housing Enforcment is a so process.

Food can be provided but those is Ward 7 and Ward 8 live in food deserts and access to high quality foods is often unavailable. Once again, there was a WashPo article about the moldy veggies, low quality fruit options and poor meat that was often spoiled found in grocery stores in Ward 7 and 8.

DC just started renovating the schools in the last 2 decades, prior to that, the kids went to school in broken buildings  with heat/cooling issues, rodents, bad curriculum and violence.

So let's stop discussing what "FREEBIES" the poor in DC receive m, when it's actually no that free and is literally a step above sleeping on the streets with other unhoused populations. [/quote]

The supermarkets won't go there because loss prevention is INSANE. They are businesses, not charities. Ask the Mayor to offer to put a police substation in every supermarket that willingly goes into 7 and 8. But you'd have to not simultaneously demonize the police. There's a reason for the expression "you can't have your cake and eat it too".[/quote]

What exactly do you do with your cake if you cannot eat it??[/quote]

Once you’ve eaten the cake you don’t have it anymore.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_can't_have_your_cake_and_eat_it[/quote]

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