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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What we need to do in the face of violent crime is obviously to keep throwing money at programs , wringing our hands about actually arresting or prosecuting violent criminal perpetrators, but to continue focusing on learning “the root causes of crime”, which somehow we haven’t been able to do over the last 2,000 years or so. Since we’re in a time of defunding the police, and unwillingness to arrest because it breaks up families and all the rest, I’m sure we’ll come up with a strong deterrent soon and all will right itself.[/quote]

When you say "keep throwing money at programs" are you talking about police?

Maybe you aren't familiar with the root causes of crime, but that doesn't mean that it isn't already understood.  Like poverty.  It's not rocket science.  That is a problem we're doing to ourselves, and overemphasis on policing makes that worse.[/quote]

Look, I live in Sourheast DC. There are shootings and robberies all the time. I’m sorry if people who commit those crimes are arrested and go to jail, but if that makes the community safer so be it. Charles Allen and the rest of the city council, who are pushing less severe penalties for teens who commit car jackings, and allowing people up to 26 to be covered under the Youth Rehab act, or get lenient sentences, even for repeat offenses, or these council members who push violence interruptors and pay millions of tax payer money for those even when they show no efficacy, or who push restorative justice over strict punishment, all these new novel approaches to harm reduction seem to just encourage more crime with impunity. They are not a crime prevention deterrent. Yes, arrests rates are disproportionate and it sucks. At the same time what are we supposed to do? Not punish anyone? If you get shot by someone, would you want to sit down and have restorative justice with your attacker? I wouldn’t. If someone lights your car on fire, would you want to have a violence interruptor speak harshly to them? Crime rates are rising. The pandemic is to blame I guess. But so are weak on crime, less tough policing. Just arrest and convict the people who commit violent crime. Put them away. Do you even live in the city? Do you have any clue what it’s like to get mugged? Or to be ever vigilant when you walk from a metro because the city now wants to lower the statistical imbalance in arrest rates? You can’t just excuse crime away or allow it to happen.

The city is already super lenient. Those two girls who killed that Uber driver will be out in a few years. All they cared about was getting their stupid phones back from the crime scene after they caused it. It’s really messed up. I’m really tired of people like you who excuse crime and want weak responses so families don’t lose their dads to jail. What about them victims?[/quote]

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