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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.

A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD[/quote]

If DC really wanted to reduce violent crime these 500 people would already be in jail. Time’s up. [/quote]

You cannot incarcerate your way out of the city’s crime problem.  Full stop[/quote]

+1. If you arrest and incarcerate these folks, you will keep finding more folks to arrest and incarcerate. Eventually, everyone will be in prison. Is that what you want?[/quote]

There is a deterrent effect from incarceration for violent crimes.

Yes, if you lock people up for loitering or jaywalking or public drunkenness or prostitution, you will just keep locking people up and nothing will change. I don't think we should lock up people for non-violent offenses, we need better options there.

But for violent offenses? Look at what OP is saying -- it's actually a very small number of people committing most of the violent crime in the city. Do you really not think that if we could find a way to prosecute and incarcerate everyone who committed a murder in DC in the last year, that the city's murder rate wouldn't plummet? Come on. Even if you ignore the deterrent effect on others, simply locking up the people who are known to have killed people would, on it's own, make us all safer.[/quote]

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