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Yeah, basically the entire progressive l criminal justice reform movement that arose post George Floyd and 2020 essentially became about alternatives to incarceration which many criminal saw as free license to commit crime with impunity. I’m liberal, but I can’t stand how liberals handle violent crimes. It’s dangerous. They create a dangerous environment and everything gets worse.

I think something else happened in 2020 to spike crime. It is more related to the social fallout from COVID.[/quote]

It is a "both/and".  The progressive criminal justice reform pushed alternatives to incarceration at all costs in a post-George Floyd world.  In the meantime, there was an entire cohort of kids in DC who were left to run wild for 2 years when the schools were closed.  Many of those kids only had stability (and limited stability at that) and attention from competent adults when attending school.   Now they are young teens, hopelessly behind in school, and anti-social because they missed critical  elementary school years where the school is  setting behavioral  expectations.  UMC parents on here complain about how school closures negatively impacted their kids' overall socialization---the impact on kids already at-risk was far worse. Young teens ---12 and 13 yo girls---were arrested today for beating a 64 yo man to death on Georgia Avenue earlier this year.  This is "lord of the flies" type levels of feral behavior by young teens.

But the progressive criminal justice crowd hasn't wrapped their minds about how what we really need are humane, highly structured juvenile detention centers where these under-socialized and violent young people can be civilized back into productive behavior.  [/quote]

Singapore may have a more quick and effective way to civilize under socialized and violent young people back into productive behavior.[/quote]

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