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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was talking to power crews yesterday who came in from out of state.  They stated that one of their teams was robbed while here.  I cannot verify if this is true but their perception is that DC is dangerous.  He stated that his spouse was worried.
Perception matters because at what point won’t we (DC) be able to get additional resources because out of state teams don’t want to come to a dangerous city.   
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Yes, when a major "news" source has devoted years to portraying cities in the US as landscapes of smoking rubble populated by criminal sociopaths, some people do become afraid to visit those cities.[/quote]

When people from out of town who come to DC to help restore power are robbed, that kind of confirms the belief that DC is dangerous, don't you think?[/quote]

When some random anonymously posts that they talked to somebody yesterday who told them about something that somebody else said happened to them, that kind of confirms that randoms randomly post all kind of things on the internet - not that there is much dispute about this.[/quote]

This is the article: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/14-year-old-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-construction-worker-on-howard-university-campus/3395424/?amp=1

Again, you can bury your head, shut out anything that contradicts your existing confirmation bias that progressive policies will “work if given enough time”, and that’s great for you.

For the rest of us who live in the real world, where we see stats, and can put 2 and 2 together, its not all some pandemic related problem of kids not having enough to occupy their time. it’s clear that years of electing progressive council members who push ever more lenient legislation for violent offenders (YRA and 2nd look act for example) and hiring progressive da’s that don’t prosecute (70% last year), and seeing that giving teens a slap on the wrist and pat on the head for basically terrorizing the city with violent crime are sort of the main contributors to the issue.

I get it. You’re virtuous, you don’t like seeing lots of people locked up, you know that selective “evidence-based” policies as Charles Allen is fond of repeating after another violent incident happens in Ward 6 occurs, are the best policies and we just need to look at alternatives to strict punishment because it’s new dawn and all that sht. Just stop. I am a liberal but we are going way overboard with trying to placate criminals. Just fking stop with your bs.[/quote]

I think the problems are with the DC crime lab, police hiring, consistent police f-ups requiring cases to be dropped, and lax AG prosecution. We can also blame Kia’s USB problem and extended school closures for creating the kiddie karjacking trend. Charles Allen certainly did not help, but at the end of the day, his progressive bills are more annoying and useless than anything else. His (and the Council’s) big failure is to allow our crime-control apparatus to completely fall apart. [/quote]

We can argue back and forth about whether the so-and-so is more responsible for the current crisis than such-and-such but that would be pointless. The reality is that there is a very long list of misguided policies and bad practices - many but certainly not all of which you cite above - that have led us to where we are at today. Office-holders and the various officials will always tend towards whataboutism to deflect blame from their own incompetence, but they should not be able to get away with it. They are all responsible.[/quote]

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