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[quote=Anonymous]I think the Commission needs people who are capable of actually understanding and separating out issues.

For example, recognizing and prioritizing the most serious threats, such as violent serial offenders.  They need to be taken off the streets until there's some other way to keep them from victimizing people.

If rehabilitation doesn't work, that's a separate issue, it doesn't take away the need to keep them off the streets.   DC seems to put a ton of money toward things like rehabilitation with minimal results.  Maybe that whole thing needs to be reformed, likely mismanaged like so many other programs in DC, but that still doesn't take away the need to remove violent repeat offenders from society.  That's a separate issue to be solved, not one to undo the first because you haven't solved it.

Also, these ideas about things like "restorative justice" - is any of that actually working?  I doubt it.  If someone was pistol whipped and carjacked and then their car was never recovered, or the car was found wrecked and abandoned somewhere, did the perpetrator provide them with a new car to replace it, and pay for the victim's medical treatment, physical and mental recovery?  I doubt anything even remotely like that is happening.  So what's being "restored?"  If a business saw a big insurance hike because of retail theft, are the perpetrators paying their insurance bill?  Doubt it.  So what's being "restored?"  What happened - they made the perp say "sorry?"  Did that really fix anything?

And what's the rationale for turning unrepentant violent repeat offenders loose?  Not enough space?  Make more.  Too expensive?  Why should it be?  Put the prisoners to work, make them pay for their own upkeep.  "But that's cruel and unusual!"  WHAAAT?  What the hell do you think the rest of us have to do?  We have to go to our jobs and put in the hours so that we can pay our rents and bills and put food on our tables.  That's a basic fact of life for the rest of us, go to hell with "cruel and unusual."  Real estate too expensive in DC?  Build outside of DC, or use eminent domain.  [/quote]

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