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[quote]Anonymous wrote:
All of the people who are victim-blaming are disgusting. It takes a community effort to maintain a decent neighborhood. When the response to jerks endangering children by riding an electric scooter is to say, "Go inside and hide" then you are abandoning the streets to the miscreants. That's how neighborhoods stay unsafe.

+1. Well said.[quote]

The follow-on to that thought is that the community will only feel safe confronting the miscreants if they know that law enforcement and local government has their backs to do so, i.e., a legitimate expectation that someone who would shoot a woman and child in this circumstance will be quickly apprehended, prosecuted to the full extent of the law, and then jailed for a long time.  One of the problems of systemic racism is that for historic reasons, that expectation----of being protected by the law--has not been met for victims of violent crime in poor black communities. And unfortunately the naive do-gooders on the DC Council like Charles Allen don't really care about that fact.  Addressing issues of police brutality and misconduct is meaningless if the other, and I would argue more important, aspect of the American criminal justice system remains broken, i.e, we need to ensure as a society that ANY victim---regardless of socio-economic status or race--receives just protection of the law.[/quote]

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