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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In sum, let’s continue to subsidize the ultra poor in wealthy, gentrifying neighborhoods in the center of the city for generations of the same family, all while it’s clear that these places are where crime originates, all while the city and prosecutors are lowering bar for committing crimes and enabling lax on crime legislation because of equity or to make the arrest stats look better or whatever you want to call it, thus putting innocent citizens at risk. So it’s a “let’s just pass the risk on to tax payers” situation. Why don’t we at least for violent crime and not so much drugs, just crack down on crime, let police arrest, let courts prosecute and if people can’t afford the city they just move like everyone else? If they move out crime goes down. But no. We’re going to self flagellate like California is doing and allow shoplifting and crime to rise and cities will get worse. Ugh. social justice until it hurts right?[/quote]

Acccurately and succinctly put.  DC's housing and tenant advocates believe that families are entitled to be subsidized in perpetuity in the neighborhoods in which they wish to live.  DC's criminal justice system coddles juvenile offenders until they age out of the juvenile sentencing world (currently 22, soon to be 26 under Allen et al.), whereupon the now adult offenders find themselves facing significant jail time for violent crimes, whereas if they had actually been held truly accountable at a younger age, maybe they wouldn't have landed there.  Nothing about DC's poverty policies---which have been the same model for decades (the current youth sentencing laws started under Marion Barry)---actually help move the needle on poverty or crime, and do a lot to reinforce both.[/quote]

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