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[b]Juvenile offenders thoughts do not run so deep as to “sense that the city does not care about them”.[/b] The whole genesis of Racine’s proposal is that kids’ brains are not fully developed, so they certainly aren’t thinking as deeply as you suggest. What they sense is that there are few consequences for criminal behavior in DC so they take their teenage years as a crime freebie. Being committed to DYRS is a bit of street cred for many kids because they know that commitment doesn’t mean you will be locked away, you’ll generally still be at home with no supervision and running the streets.

Feel free to do a search of the kids between 16-17 in DC who have been charged as adults with murder, and then realize that under this proposal those kids would have been looking at a commitment to DYRS (which does not necessarily mean they will be detained) until a max of age 21. Here are some examples: the murderer of Neil Godleski in 2010, sniper Lee Malvo, one of the people charged with killing 10 year old Makiyah Wilson, and Maurice Bellamy who was convicted of murdering 2 people at age 17. [/quote]

I disagree - I think people have a pretty good sense about when the city (or whichever) government doesn't care about them, whether or not they can articulate it.[/quote]

It doesn't help that the Post and other left-leaning elite narrative makers constantly tell them that a) they can never get ahead because of racism,  b) they are poor because of racism, and c) money and bling is the source of happiness.[/quote]

Juvenile offenders read the Washington Post? Who knew?[/quote]

not PP, but aside from your snide Post reading comment, do you not think the lives of juvenile offenders are shaped in any way by narrative makers - who quote obviously influence voter and policy decisions by anyone who does read the papers.[/quote]

Can you point to some specific examples of where the "narrative making" Washington Post or other left leaning elites are saying it's OK for people to engage in violent crime and carjackings?[/quote]

I hate Trump, but the post went apoplectic when he was president and every story was anti-trump, which is fine, but please don’t act as if the majority of their content is not more liberal in agenda.

Additionally, obviously there are no stories where they expressly support car jackings. They report on them. There are opinion articles. However, many stories tend to empathize with “the underdog”, the articles play up the poor, mistreated criminal who, by external forces out of their own control, where somehow forced into car jacking someone out of desperation, when in reality they have other options.

The post has always leaned left. The entire city leans left. I know that because I am not an idiot and grew up in SE and am a media junkie like all the other nerds on this forum. This is a city of haves and have nots. However, the current climate and sentiment is to sympathize more criminals than with the actual tax paying citizens who don’t rob people out of a sense of altruism to rectify past wrongs. It’s messed up. If you voice concern with this stance you’re labeled as being part of the problem. And the only solution seems to throw money at the problem and kick the cam down the road as we have always done. “More programs more educational spending per child to counter the problem” when in actuality we spend over 26k per kid on schooling and the real solution begins in the home.

Anyway, with rising crime, and a younger generation who disfavor the police, what the fk are we going to do? Tolerate the rise in crime because it’s only fair to those who historically had it bad???? It’s stupid. I’m sure if it gets bad enough the pendulum will swing back to the way policing was in the 90’s to counter the crack epidemic. History repeats itself and it seems everyone has to learn the hard way and eyes, the post, in its coverage, like most other newspapers won’t even provide a comment section for stories on crime, to prevent racist comments. But that kind of censorship mentality is also how we are approaching the crime rise in general. Preventing actual conversations from taking place. L[/quote]

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