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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janeese Lewis-George says we can't arrest 17 year olds for murder because jail will "traumatize" them. [/quote] Oh ffs. Jail WILL traumatize them. Incarceration is a traumatic experience. You can have the points you have without implying that it's untrue that jail will be traumatic. It absolutely will be. Also, generations of disenfranchisement do actually have a lot to do with how people got to the points they got to. It is not making excuses to point out that structural realities exist that make "personal responsibility" a very reductive response to a complicated problem.[/quote] DC has a long standing policy of not doing jack shit about teenagers who commit even horrific crimes. Look where it has gotten us. We arrest the same people over and over and over as they commit increasingly serious crimes. Hand wringing about root causes has gotten us nowhere.[/quote]
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