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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are roughly 200-300 young men in DC that commit nearly all the violent crime in the city.

Instead of arresting them, we make excuses for why we can't arrest them. The police know who they are. The neighborhoods know who they are. But DC residents twist themselves into pretzels for why we can't arrest them.

All the sympathy is with the criminals; never with the victims.

Ultimately, the crime problem in DC comes down to DC voters. This is what we voted for. That woman with the multiple DUIs that killed three people? That was us. The police chief noting that the average murder suspect has eleven felonies and still walks free? That was us.

This is what we vote for. Until that changes, nothing changes.[/quote]

So vote republican is your answer for solving crime?[/quote]

Well, at least OP suggested an attempt to change. What are you suggesting? Any solution?[/quote]

Restorative justice works, it just takes time. Instead of locking up black and brown kids because we all know you hate them and are scared of them just...existing, why not give them tools to succeed and not be painted as criminals because of their skin color.

Everyone makes mistakes, but you aren't looking to lock up the white and asian kids who do bad stuff are you, you're not painting an entire race as thugs are you because one white kid decides to shoot a school up. Black and brown people need our help, they're oppressed and all you want to do is make it worse for them.

Sometimes I'm so ashamed to be white.[/quote]

This is ridiculous.  You are looking at the statistics that show the results of prioritizing restorative justice over crime prevention.  Restorative justice works on non-repeat offenders, the ones who made a mistake but have an inherent sense of right and wrong.  Restorative justice will work on these types to prevent recidivism.  But repeat offenders and career criminals, ones who have no compunction against repeating crimes as long as they can get away with it, are not very likely to turn around with restorative justice.  These are the people that go to jail, serve a term, get paroled and repeat the same types of crimes to go back in.

The system needs to have a mixture of restorative justice and retributive justice and apply the appropriate measures to the appropriate situations and criminals.  Applying progressively more and more lenient sentencing across the board, is how we got to where we are.  There is no one that is analyzing the situation and the record of the criminals and applying the appropriate penalty or social counseling.  You can't apply either method indiscriminately and expect to get a workable system.  So, rather than having legislative rules regulating sentencing mandates, the system needs to leave the decision up to someone, like the judge, or a panel, who specifically review each case on a case-by-case basis and determines whether there is evidence that the criminal is likely to be a repeat offender vs someone who is likely to be rehabilitated.  But blanket approaches to judicial rulings will never get things right.[/quote]

Agree.  Our system is chock full of repeat offenders who keep repeatedly getting nothing more than a slap on the wrist and then returned right back to the streets.  Restorative justice could be used for the stupid first-time offenders, kids who just made a mistake, but needs to be OFF THE TABLE for repeat offenders.  For violent repeat offenders, the top priority becomes taking them off the streets.   However you want to rehabilitate them is a separate issue that can run in parallel, but which should not be allowed to remove the need to first take them off the streets and remove the threat from the community.[/quote]

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