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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is horrible. I feel like we're trapped in this cycle of talking around and around what is causing the crime increase and how to address it, but in the end aren't doing anything. And the election will have no impact because general elections in DC have almost no impact. None of the top contenders for the at-large seat are going to do anything different than what we have been doing and everyone else was essentially elected in the primary.

It feels so futile.[/quote]

What do you mean when you say "what we've been doing"?

We've been funding the heck out of police including seemingly unlimited overtime, stocked equipment, etc.  But we don't fund out teachers, social workers, or violence interrupters that way.  There are people pushing to increase that but it isn't what we have been doing.[/quote]
Violence interrupters have been funded for several years now, and as you can see the results have not exactly been stellar. [/quote]

That would be like have 20 police officers in the entire city paid at minimum wage with 1980s equipment and saying "see?  We've tried policing, and golly, it's just not effective!"

We're just barely starting with violence interrupters in a limited manner and they do not appear to be funded anywhere near where DC police officers are funded even though they go into much more dangerous situations unprotected.[/quote]
 :roll: They aren’t going into dangerous situations in the way police officers are, nor should they be funded in the way police departments are. When someone gets held up at gun point they aren’t calling a violence interruptor, FFS. But keep thinking demonizing the police and wanting violence interruptors used in their place is the answer to crime, and don’t be shocked when the Republican party makes huge gains tomorrow in part because people are over the progressive approach to crime.[/quote]

Going to meet with people who are likely to commit violence is not dangerous?  Please, come closer to reality.  Have you ever met these people??[/quote]
Having worked in law enforcement for years (I’m not a police officer) yes, I have, and “meeting” people who are likely to commit violence isn’t doing jack to prevent crime, as evidenced by the current state of the District. When young people think they are untouchable because they have never been held accountable for their behavior/criminal activity, you think some violence interruptor is going to miraculously make them see the error of their ways? Come on, maybe you need to get in touch with reality. [/quote]

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