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[quote=Anonymous]@19:18:

I appreciate your well-reasoned comment.  But at the risk of sounding like a jerk, I'm reasonably sure that 99% of the PG neighbors are already well aware of all of this.  In short, you're preaching to the choir.

I'd like to repost a public email from the local ANC rep to the Hilleast community that captures my position perfectly:

[quote]We need the following:

1. Prosecute all attacks to the fullest extent of the law – the AUSA and Judges
should not water down charges or punishments. A violent crime needs to be
prosecuted, and not weaseled out of by our bureaucracy.

I get frustrated when I hear the talk about the offenders being `victims' and
how we need to do more to serve them. Well, life is tough all over, buddy. I had
a rough childhood, but it did not make me a criminal.

Does everyone forget about the actual victim of the crime? Our Government,
elected officials, non-profits and everyone else, need to speak up for the
victim's rights. We do this by ensuring that criminals are actually prosecuted,
locked up, and then get the help/therapy that they need while serving their
time. Maybe they should face the person they attacked too? Let them feel
remorse, and repent by serving their time and hearing how the victim feels (or
maybe not, since the criminal might get perverse pleasure from this).

2. Confidentiality laws regarding juveniles. When a juveniles commits a crime(s)
it is shrouded in secrecy to protect the youth. This confidentiality, I believe,
does much more harm than good, since the police, their teachers, neighbors, etc.
will have no knowledge that the child committed a crime. Even if the child has
committed and been caught for 100 crimes, it is still confidential. How can this
child get the services he needs if no one knows about it?

3. If the offending juvenile lives in public housing, their family gets one
warning to get their child back on track. A second infraction and see my
proposal on Community Service below. If the juvenile commits a third act of
breaking the law, the family gets thrown out of public housing. Bad behavior
should never be rewarded with free or subsidized housing. I know that the DC
Housing Authority does not allow people who commit crimes to live in public
housing, but this needs to be strictly enforced down to the juvenile level.

4. Community Service: Commit a less than violent crime in the neighborhood, make
the child pay with a huge amount of community service (so every weekend for a
year is filled with labor, so no one has the energy to do anything but go home
and rest) and make them do part of it side by side with their parent(s). If my
Mom was next to me picking up litter, or painting over graffiti because of my
actions, it will make a very unpleasant experience at home afterward.

5. Install street cameras that can record action that goes on. I believe that
most of our street cameras can only show real time and not record activities. If
no one is watching the monitor at the very moment something is happening then
the opportunity to hit `record' is lost forever. Some consider this an invasion
of privacy, but I feel that this will help identify criminals.

Two facts:

1. DC Jail is not overcrowded. When I last checked it was only 2/3 full.

2. Potomac Gardens is not our only Public Housing in the area. We have Kentucky
Courts at 13th and D SE, we have Hopkins on 12th and K SE. So let's not blame PG
for all the problems. I believe that criminals use PG as a cover and don't
actually live there.

Write to our City Council, our Mayor Elect, our Attorney General and our Judges.
Let them know, we demand change in carrying out Juvenile Justice and fighting
crime.

Neil Glick
ANC Commissioner 6B08[/quote]

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