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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Follow @dccrimefacts for all the data you could want, PP.

The prosecutor of adult crime in DC is the federally appointed USA, whose office declines to prosecute 67% of arrests. The federally appointed judges at DC Superior Court are soft on crime and let felony murderers out pre-trial to commit more crimes, even the USA objected in that case. And the federally appointed judges at the DC Court of Appeals have made it far more difficult than in other jurisdictions for cops to get guns off the street.

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This this this. I'm not even a pro-statehood person and would probably favor retrocession over anything, but DC's problem is in part that it isn't a state and therefore the majority of the people responsible for soft on crime approach are federally appointed judges and prosecutors who aren't accountable to the citizens. We do not need federal intervention; the feds are the problem, and Congress can barely run this country as it is. We do need better elected leaders who put pressure on the feds to cut this nonsense though. [/quote]

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