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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dude, I’ve been in this city my entire life. I want to legalize all drugs, prostitution, keep abortion, protect the environment, and have taxes that are moderate, fair, but also don’t unduly drive business away. Most of all I want someone who isn’t a giant fking wuss on crime. It sucks, but we have to arrest and prosecute violent criminals. I’m sorry there are tons of teens stealing cars with babies in them and robbing people at gunpoint for puppies, so we need to actually put in strict deterrence measures. Restorative justice, no bail, slap on the wrist and release, youth rehab act, no prosecution type of stuff is clearly making the crime rise as evidenced by easily obtainable statistics.

The real issue is that  we are in this era of progressive criminal justice reform as a result of the nationwide reckoning of the last few years. Arresting leads to disparate impacts on statistics and it’s just not popular to be vigilant on crime. Charles Allen knows that. He pays millions for violence interruptors which do nothing and is basically a shoe in for office each time he runs. He is okay on some issues, but his misguided views on crime, which help him get re-elected in this Uber liberal city, only exacerbate crime.[/quote]

I find it so fascinating that structural racism, poverty etc factor zero in your figurings. [/quote]

Structural racism and poverty aren't an excuse for crime.  And to deal with poverty you can't just throw money at the issue.  You have to actually deal with fixing the multigenerational dysfunction that's keeping families in poverty.  It's not entirely about lack of opportunity or discrimination either.  Consider that there are unemployed/underemployed blacks right in DC yet immigrant latinos who can barely speak English commute all the way in from Falls Church and elsewhere and manage to find jobs all over DC.  Look a little deeper than this progressive handwavey "it's structural racism and poverty" BS.[/quote]

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