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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]10 years ago seemed much more safe. [/quote]

Let me guess: you're in your 20's?[/quote]

Or to put it in terms his generation understands: tell me you're in your 20's without telling me you're in your 20's. [/quote]

I'm a different poster. I'm 45, and moved to DC in 2002. yes, it feels decidedly LESS safe today than it did in 2012 when my youngest was born. Why is it hard to comprehend that? Some of us live in areas that have always had a crime problem, but we've seen it get worse with our very eyes -- carjackings outside our front door, mom and child shot by ATV rider, the little girl who was killed outside Nats Park during a game, etc. nyc also feels less safe than when I graduated from college there in the late 90s. [/quote]

DC wasn't "tough on crime" in 2012 or in 2002. [/quote]

It was tougher. It was also tougher after the Clinton’s bill in the 90’s. I’m so tired of all the obstinate fks around here who seem to relish accommodating crime. It doesn’t make you virtuous or an ally.[/quote]

The problem with "tough on crime" policies is that they don't really reduce crime. If they worked it would be hard to argue against them. [/quote]

They do reduce crime. Your post is false. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/covid-court-closings-violent-crime-wave/670559/

When you remove the deterrent you increase crime. It’s as simple as that.

The issue is that, as the country diversifies, it’s become politically unpalatable to arrest and incarcerate. Poverty correlates with crime. Progressives think they can solve all this with trying to fix poverty, which is a fool’s errand based on the entirety of history of the human race and there having always been poor people.

Anyway, in 5 years when it’s spiraled out of control more we’ll revert back to tough on crime policy, then in 15 years we’ll go back to the current soft on crime approach when the same complaints bubble up of too many x people going to jail. Anyway, I wish we had some republicans in charge of taxes and crime in this city. Not policy for abortion, drugs or the environment because they suck at that, but really just crime and taxes. We are so fking progressive. Even as people get jumped, this city council doubles down on useless violence interruptors and bs.[/quote]

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