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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone tried to rob my kid in Georgetown in broad daylight on Monday.  It’s time for a clampdown. [/quote]

As if! As if that’s going to happen.

Think about it. This town is populated with either wealthy or upper middle class intelligent idealistic, but naive folks who embrace urbanism and all its warts. They think a punitive approach to crime is “unfair.” Cracking down puts too many in jail and so they want to work on the “root causes of poverty” rather than enforcement. It’s a sort of patronizing, infantilizing way to view crime. Basically side with the perpetrators over the victims and promulgate ineffective restorative Justice and keep voting in weaklings who justify the status quo by touting selective,  “evidence based” policies that make us less safe. Or you have Ward 7 and 8 super poor people who basically don’t like police and enforcement.

Meanwhile Grocery stores leave because of shrinkage, the car jackings continue to skyrocket because obviously criminals know they can get away with anything. and the tax base , you know, people willing to put up with it, slowly get scared and leave.[/quote]

I arrived in 1991 and spent years fighting and then winning against crime and stupid.  This city was a dump and dangerous and then it changed.  The drift back to stupid can be checked and it will but only if it’s an all hands on deck effort.  [/quote]

Fighting how, PP?[/quote]

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