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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hahaha. It could be Monaco but it’s a freaking Grand Theft Auto[/quote]

This. If we didn’t have home rule, maybe we’d have a tougher on crime approach to rising crime by Republicans or something. Instead we have a liberal city council that sided with criminals over tax paying citizens out of “equity”.[/quote]

Did you live here before home rule?
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Yes, I’m from here. I lived though the Barry years. I’ve seen decades of violence. I now am seeing a soft on crime approach, even from other residents, that borders on self flagellation. Why should people who pay taxes, don’t commit crime, don’t steal cars and broadcast the joyride on world star or punch someone in the face near Potomac metro to get their iPhone be safer than me and my family?

Also, where are you people posting from? The safety of ward 3?[/quote]

5 of the D.C. Council seats are up for election in November - have you thought…shockingly…on voting for someone tough on crime? And canvassing for them? Or are you just going to whine on DCUM?[/quote]

Have you thought, shockingly, that there is no fking chance of that working?

This city went 96% Hillary as an indicator of how liberal it is? Also, ward 7 and 8 voters would never vote for someone who would advocate for a harsher stance on crime. I’m not fking canvassing for sht. There is no chance we get someone serious. We’re going to continue to get a city council that basically allocates all its funding to programs with zero efficacy, or violence interruptors that don’t work or restorative justice that doesn’t help victims or all types of things that don’t work. Charles Allen will slide comfortably to victory and fret and furlough his brow concernedly about a rise in crime, but he won’t take any tangible steps. Then I’ll be stuck with them same clueless weaklings on this forum who don’t want to prosecute criminals, but to empathize with them.[/quote]

So you think that given the majority of the district votes for x candidate you don’t like means our (limited) voting rights should be taken away?  Great grasp of democracy, bro.[/quote]

What I’m saying is that the city keeps electing Uber liberal politicians after liberal politician who must be into bdsm or sadomasochism or something because they seem to relish self flagellating weak on crime policies they implement. They’d rather put tax payers at risk than higher police and allow for tough on crime policing I think if a Republican Congress took control of the city we would have stronger policing and more arrests, and woke liberals would be safe but aghast ar the arrest rates.[/quote]

So your response to the previous poster is "yes". Because DC voters do not vote the way that you think they should, you want their voting right to be removed. As the previous poster sarcastically wrote, you have a great grasp of democracy. Might I suggest that if you are unhappy in DC, rather than putting a bunch of unaccountable Republicans in charge of us, you just move to one of the Republicans' districts? 
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