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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, another carjacking. I know it won't happen, but we really need a hard crackdown on crime.[/quote]
Honestly I think a hard crackdown is coming. These so-called progressive prosecutors have gone so far to the left that they are not helping their cause and the end result is going to be a return to more law and order policies. I know they don’t want to hear it, but the answer lies in the middle. Do people need
To be incarcerated for petty theft, no; but do they need a lengthy period of incarceration for holding people up at gunpoint, yes. I don’t care how old they are either, if you are putting a gun to someone you need to be removed from society for a minute. [/quote]

We are talking about human beings here.

Nobody WANTS to be a criminal.  No child sets out to be a criminal when they grow up.

How about we try some understanding and empathy here, instead of the ham-fisted Lockemup! policies, which don’t work?[/quote]

Not to mention, what gives this Facebook group the right to judge, given the unearned privilege they were all born into? [/quote]

I'd be wary about generalizing this about the members of a group like this (I'm not in it, ftr). My experience in similar groups in similar areas is that they tend to be diverse because the neighborhood is diverse, and sometimes the most "law and order" voices in the group are older black residents who have been living there a long time and blame the crime on a lack of policing. It's easy to generalize if you've never lived in a neighborhood like this. But your assumptions are wrong. For instance, in my current neighborhood, the residents who are most vocal about opposing police intervention and urging empathy for young people committing crimes are also the most privileged (young, white, professionals). If you spend time talking to the "less privileged" neighbors, you get a much more nuanced take than just "defund the police" and "don't be a Karen."[/quote]

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