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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I thought you wanted the police to respond. From what I see on X, the guy is holed up in a building. The police are trying to get him out.
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OP is expressing frustration at living in a crime-ravaged community, not at the police themselves. Stop being purposefully obtuse. It’s not cute.[/quote]

Exactly. And it’s not cute at all. It’s very dickish. [/quote]

I feel like, and it’s sad i read this site so much that I can parse this out, that Jeff is so progressive, so sure he’s on the side for which “the arc always bends to justice” that he feels it’s okay to glibly retort to annoying who posts here advocating for strict on crime penalties. Like of course we should all be proponents for weak sht like “violence interruptors”.

I own a bunch of property in DC and basically know this city better than anyone. Trust me. I’ve been here since Kim’s karate commercials and fking Hechingers sold tools. I lived here during the crack years. I’ve seen the same endless and meaningless platitudes from people saying that that we need to just commission studies that look at combating the roots causes of poverty rather than just actually tackling crime. It’s sucks to see that time is a flat circle and we are just going back to 1989 or whatever.

Anyway, long story short. Jeff police’s this site and ensure that it’s liberal bent is preserved and anyone who disturbs the peace has their post deleted lol.[/quote]

Whole site is like that.  And it’s the unhinged, extremist-type people who post here as much as it is Jeff maintaining this echo-chamber.

It’s progressives operating in an imaginary world of “what I wish it was” rather than “what it is.” They do this all the f’ing time, the consequences are always disastrous, & they never learn from it.

Unskilled economic migrants come on in; defund the police (but lie about it); no cash bail; letting protesters/ rioters have “room to destroy”; being nice to Iran and hope Iran respects our weakness; on & on & on.[/quote]

You are ranting about migrants in a thread about a shooting and standoff in the Navy Yard and you think other people are unhinged?

Half the problem with you wackjobs is that you lack even an iota of self-awareness. Today's incident involved a massive police response to a crime resulting in an arrest and no further injuries. Everyone should be happy, both those like me who don't want Black men to be arbitrarily executed and the "call out the national guard" types like yourself. Instead of taking the W, you are stamping your feet and pouting.
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I’m not a whack job, but I understand where that poster is coming from. He just aggregated his multiple grievances with the far left into one diatribe.

He’s probably partly liberal to some degree too, but reached his peak and is aghast at how far progressives take things to the left.

Basically, we can’t even fight crime now because the mere mention of jail for car jackers leads to a social justice discussion of the ramifications on local communities and blah blah. Just fking arrest anyone, anyone who commits a violent crime.

Drugs? Legalize em. Prostitution? Whatever as long as it’s regulated and they track pimps or whatever. But violent stuff? Stop vacillating and being so weak. Progressive criminal justice reform only exacerbates crime. Jeff, you should not mock people for caring about the crime epidemic in this town.

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I think everyone is in agreement that people who actually commit violent crimes should be arrested and incarcerated.  The problem is that the police response in the US is often to go arrest any random minority, jail them for cash bond, and count on time rotting in jail to convince them to plead guilty whether they had anything to do with the crime.

This is why you have, for example, a guy spending a year awaiting trial for murder based on his DNA being found at a scene, but the police didn’t mention — until he FINALLY got a public defender who was new and didn’t just convince him to plead — that multiple other people’s DNA was also found — including two people previously convicted of violent crimes.

The tough on crime types who are against improving and professionalizing policing — including getting rid of the many avowed Nazis currently serving in many departments  — aren’t helping to make anyone safer.  [/quote]

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