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Yes to both PPs above. I'd venture to say that most PPs here are also tired Dems. Dem here. I'm done. Crime is up in DC and bleeding into NOVA (hello, Tysons), and I'm done. I am solidly behind reproductive rights but am wondering how much crime we have to put up with to support that. [/quote]
Access to abortion strongly correlates with reduction in crime in the next generation.[/quote]

Ha! True.

Democrats need to signify to their elected representatives that they've had enough of restorative justice, and they want harsh consequences so our streets can be safe.

Why the heck is that too much to ask?!?

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It’s getting to the point where they will demand that. The impetus for this progressive justice reform/restorative justice stuff was because of some instances of police abuse and also because of the disparate rates of incarceration. It’ll went into overdrive post-2020. But obviously, Occam’s Razor has shown that lo and behold, lessening penalties through no bail, allowing speeders to keep licenses, liberal das not prosecuting etc…these novel methods are complete and total failures. I’m sorry it’s sucks, but we need to go back to just taking criminals off the streets. There is no better solution. Trying to fix poverty as the solution is a fools errand. Obviously, we should try to do that. However, just letting people shoplift by basically not going after thieves or seeing liberals city politicians raising the penalty for felony shoplifting to $1000 is not helpful. [/quote]
Hmm. It doesn’t seem like your version of reality aligns with what’s actually happening. https://www.findlaw.com/traffic/traffic-tickets/reckless-driving.html Now this doesn’t actually show how speeding/reckless driving are prosecuted and I wasn’t able to find that, but maybe you can.

And Texas’s threshold for felony theft is $2500. Seems a little higher than that of “liberal cities,” no? In fact when South Carolina raised their felony shoplifting limit to $2000, their crime continued to drop by 15%, and rates of average value of thefts stayed around $200. From this same site it seems that addressing substance abuse is a massive way to prevent crime. https://blog.agilenceinc.com/the-real-impact-of-rising-felony-shoplifting-thresholds-on-retail

It appears that things are not quite like you present them. [/quote]

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