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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way to get a handle on this is “mass incarceration” of “juvenile offenders”—here meaning up to age 26 evidently—and this will never, ever happen. DC government has no interest in protecting crime victims, those in positions of authority on such matters care only about the offenders.  This is not going to change anytime soon.[/quote]

This is stupid. First, a mass incarceration of juvenile offenders until the age of 26 would be wickedly expensive and DC taxpayers would foot the bill. Second, it would do nothing to change criminal behavior and likely worsen an already bad situation. Numerous studies cite negative long-term effects of incarcertaion that include depression, substance use, homelessness, and loss of economic productivity. These have both direct financial and societal costs to DC and other communities.[/quote]

Well, let’s just think about this 50 car incident.  If you assume an average $500 repair bill for each window, that’s $25k, and then each car owner is looking at at least a few hours of wasted time to get the car fixed, the insurance companies have administrative costs, etc.  This incident imposed significant economic losses on the community that could have been avoided if the offender had been locked up.  Now imagine the massive economic losses associated with our ongoing crime wave.  And spare me the pro-criminal “negative effects of incarceration” “studies” performed by decarceration advocates, which attribute impacts to incarceration things that really arise from the offender’s dysfunction in the first place.  Many of these criminals on net impose vastly more costs on society than the costs of incarcerating them.  We, as a society, should not have to tolerate this level of crime.  [/quote]

You should thrown in the rise in insuring your car in DC for everyone. if everyone's insurance doubles this year, that's a stunning amount.[/quote]

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