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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither of the prior posters seem to understand the "no snitching" culture that prevails in high poverty urban areas.  If you want to understand how urban AA have historically been underserved with respect to justice (while being "over served" with respect to policing), read "Ghettoside".  It's about LA but could just as easily be about DC.  It does a good, and fairly apolitical, job of identifying the historical patterns that have led to low level criminals and community witnesses being unwilling to testify against the top predators in their communities.  When you do not believe that the police will protect you from being murdered, then your appetite for cooperation plummets.

But that is a separate issue from overly generous plea deals and insufficient consequences for juvenile violent crime.  [/quote]
The truth is that only bad things happens if you get on the police’s radar. If you go to cooperate as a witness, they may try to bust you for something else. Since a lot of people end up with ticky tack stuff on their record, like unpaid tickets or failure to appear for jury duty or some minor technicality they may not even know about, putting yourself forward to police can also put yourself in jeopardy. They may use your name when interrogating suspects for unrelated crimes, intentionally or by accident.  They may threaten to tell people you are a snitch in order to get you to make statements that were not true so they can secure a conviction. They may regularly show up at your house unannounced. Etc. [/quote]

This attitude -- that fulfilling your responsibilities as a law abiding citizen by paying your parking tickets, showing up for jury duty, and the like is just "ticky tack" stuff is a big part of the culture problem actually. It's your civic responsibility to do these things, and when enough people in a city adopt the entitled attitude of "I shouldn't be held accountable for small things" it's no wonder the social fabric starts to tear. What's happening across DC is that those of us who are law abiding citizens who pay their taxes, are trying to raise families in a diverse city, see this city's leaders making constant excuses for the criminal, violent, anti-social elements of the city, while doing nothing to address the needs of the law abiding majority. It's not a sustainable civic posture. Add to that the abuse (and hypocrisy) of Bowser's emergency pandemic policies and you have a culture of suspicion, entitlement, and law breaking. Not a great recipe for a thriving city.

Signed, someone who has served on a DC jury every two years for the past 25 years I've lived here, pays my taxes, and constantly picks up the litter left behind by entitled thugs who sit around smoking pot, making homophobic and racist remarks, and sexually harassing bystanders rather than attending school or getting a job. [/quote]

The social fabric was sewn incorrectly, and deserves to be torn. It needs to be re-sewn.[/quote]

LOL and anti-social criminals are definitely going to "re-sew" the social fabric? How, exactly, was the social fabric sewn incorrectly? Seriously, what practical changes would you make to solve the problems of a violent underclass? Who terrorize the majority of law abiding citizens? We've thrown money and violence interruptors at this problems for decades. Hasn't worked.[/quote]

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