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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.[/quote]

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc.  But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way.  There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.[/quote]
Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar. [/quote]

That would be like have 20 police officers in the entire city paid at minimum wage with 1980s equipment and saying "see?  We've tried policing, and golly, it's just not effective!"

We're just barely starting with violence interrupters in a limited manner and they do not appear to be funded anywhere near where DC police officers are funded even though they go into much more dangerous situations unprotected.[/quote]
 :roll: They aren’t going into dangerous situations in the way police officers are, nor should they be funded in the way police departments are. When someone gets held up at gun point they aren’t calling a violence interruptor, FFS. But keep thinking demonizing the police and wanting violence interruptors used in their place is the answer to crime, and don’t be shocked when the Republican party makes huge gains tomorrow in part because people are over the progressive approach to crime.[/quote]

I am sorry did you miss the 6 lawsuits today?

Republicans are liars they defund the police all on their own. For one Trump never paid one police dept accross this country when he does visits or rallies millions of $ that now the police budgets have to make up.

DeSantis has Oath Keepers as his private police that is not support the police

9/11 First responders fund Trump and co stole $4 million before people screamed for them to stop. Please enlighten us on how dems are defunding the police bec facts count and so does math.

On Jan 6th Republicans made it very clear when they hurt 140 police officers that is not the party that supports the police. Ask Officer Harry Dunn he is a hero your people should not even walk this earth.[/quote]

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