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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1632814326657568771[/twitter][/quote]

This selective data reporting has been dispelled many times.

Murders are up. 
Carjackings are up.
Quality of life is down.
Crime is ruining lives in the neighborhoods all over the city.

It’s called Crime. Say its name.[/quote]

This. Some aspects are down, others are up. [b]Car jacking and murders. And the people committing them are not being prosecuted because they’re underage and the city is soft on crime because essentially the attitude is “we deserve to be flooded with crime because of historical wrongs and incarceration is not fair.[/b]”[/quote]

The current penalty for carjacking is 40 years. Under the new guidelines it would be 24 years. Do you really think a carjacker is thinking, oh, I will do more of it after the new law is passed because reasons?  And to compare, the new and old DC guidelines are harsher than most GOP districts around the country. So this whole thing is just gaslighting.[/quote]

It’s not just gaslighting. And this city, with its existing approach to prosecuting crimes (not great) and already overburdened court system, and even with new funding for staff, would defacto legalize quality of life crimes, as the bill would allow criminals to receive jury trials for misdemeanors. I mean you’ll simply have cases tossed out. So package theft (not ever caught anyway), theft, assault, CVS robberies, all this stuff will just increase without punishment. I am from DC. Are you? You ever tried to get a permit for a house? Ever dealt with DCRA? This city is filled with incompetence. It’s filled with crime. It’s filled with idealistic, urbanist yuppies who think they should just allow themselves to be punched in the face because “that’s what they deserve” for buying a $1M row house in a rough area. It’s a weird place. I hate trump and his acolytes. I don’t like social conservatism, but I also don’t like virtue signaling, weak on crime folks on the city council who propose “alternative” criminal justice solutions like useless violence interruptors and crime bills that lower penalties for violent crime and let criminals out earlier. I wish we had a socially liberal city, but with a strict policy on tackling crime. We can’t just sit back and be thankful for the Fenty’s, who came before and allowed for the development of this city to help increase its quality of life. There are too many weak on crime folks who put being woke above public safety.[/quote]

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