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Stop trying to be politically correct and be correct. Be tough. Unless there are serious consequences, criminals wouldn't learn their lesson of not to mess with DC.

Do you know how offensive it is to tell people in a majority-black city to not be politically correct and be correct? Be tough? Just like you "don't mess with Texas"? I think you might be happier if you went back home, wherever that is.

There is no issue with DC's budget. No one is worried about the "tax base" (wink, wink) leaving. We still have a surplus.

DC is *so* much better than it was, even today. You can't compare it to [plain suburban place where you grew up with little diversity] & declare it "a dump."

I still love DC.
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DC is not a majority black city anymore.  And the approach to juvenile crime, and especially juvenile violent crime, is why the crime statistics are continuing to climb.  The approaches advocated by DC's progressive politicians towards juvenile crime are so hypocritical given that most of these UMC politicians (of both races) would never approach their own child's misbehaviors similarly.  When a middle class kid goes off track (i.e., drugs, petty crime, hanging with the wrong crowd), most parents move heaven and earth to get that kid away from their current environment and impose appropriate deterring consequences.  That's because middle class parents KNOW that doing NOTHING will almost certainly lead to escalating behaviors.  And yes, I realize that unlike most MC kids, the juveniles committing crimes come from trauma backgrounds.  But lack of any meaningful consequences does these kids a grave disservice because it will lead to their aging out of the juvenile "get out of jail free" phase and landing in jail for behaviors that they had previously gotten away with.  What do MC parents do?  They send their troubled kids to therapeutic programs, wilderness education, etc.,   That's what the council should be focused on instead of letting crime go out of control---get the worst offenders off the streets and into programs that remove them from their environments and give trauma informed structure.  Spend the money on creating those programs, not the ridiculous and ineffective violence "interruptors".[/quote]

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