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It’s not just car jacking. It’s shooting from cars, too. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-kille...-dc-apartment-complex/2998912/

Of course, the answer is more violence interruptors, which studies show don’t work, more lenient laws like the Youth Rehabilitation Act, and extending its reach to 26 years olds, more hand wringing and naval gazing about the root causes of poverty and endless discussion about inequity and imbalance in incarceration statistics, meanwhile the violence gets worse, families leave the city, because weak liberals won’t do a thing to counter it like make fking arrests.

This kind of sht is why you’ll lose in November. Obviously, those elections won’t do a thing for DC. It’ll probably get worse here for years until finally people have enough and say “maybe a super liberal city council and its novel criminal justice policies that seem to be quite loose and without consequence aren’t working. Maybe people who get punched in the face need more than restorative justice to feel whole.”

Ughhhh we pay too much in taxes to be this weak.

What I meant is on a national level, the normies will see what liberal city councils and their laws do for crime, and they may vote more conservatively. Meanwhile, DC will still keep its liberal law makers and probably vote even more in because this city went 97% for Hillary, which just shows how liberal it is and how much we can’t get anyone tough on crime.

It’s crazy how history repeats itself and yet people don’t learn. Remember the 90’s? Crack? Crime? Boarded up buildings? I do. It sucked. I’m sorry.[/quote]

Yep. I think that the policies are completely misplaced.  We should focus on reforming the incarceration system so that it provides the counseling, training, (and essentially re-parenting) services that the offenders need.  And then they need to be put there---away from the law-abiding and non-violent citizens---until they have actually been rehabilitiated.  Everyone criticizes the prison-industrial complex----and those criticisms have merit---but the solution is NOT to just let violent predators run loose in the city with no consequences.  Instead reform the prison system.  I would happily pay higher taxes for a juvenile detention system that intensely tried to counsel, train and rehabilitate.  Isn't it Finland that has the prison system with the least recividism rates?  Why can't we figure out what they do right and then replicate it?  Because neither the progressives nor the current "lock 'em up" far right has the answers.[/quote]

The “lock ‘em up far right”, as you put it, has a policy that at least works:  incarcerated criminals are incapacitated while imprisoned and cannot commit further crime in the community.  No one knows how to rehabilitate criminals; the open-the-jails progressive left merely ensures much more crime, and their statements demonstrate beyond doubt that they care far more about criminals than their victims.   While there are no ideal choices here, lock ‘em up is the best of a bad set of options.  [/quote]

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