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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not the poster who keeps calling for Allen to resign and wants to pin everything on him.

BUT I do not understand the people saying "what's he supposed to do?" He has vocally advocated for reductions in the very MDP investigating this horrible event, reduced sentencing for many of the very crimes people in Ward 6 are upset about, and argued in favor of unproven alternatives to more policing and stiffer penalties as ways to curb violence. You can't have it both ways. He's been vocal FOR YEARS on crime issues, pretty much all in the same direction, and then when we see awful crime on the Hill, you want to say "well what could he possibly have done, he's just a council member, blame the mayor."

Nope. If CA wants to make himself a major policymaker on criminal justice issues in DC when it allows him to cater to certain activist groups and placate certain constituents, he doesn't then get to pretend that he has no power at all over the issue when other constituents who are being directly impacted by violent crime call for him to take action. He also doesn't get to blame the mayor and the police chief for crimes in his ward without explaining exactly how they are to blame.

Otherwise it's just buck passing. Personally, I dislike Bowser but I think one of the primary causes of the current crime wave was prolonged school closures that left too many of our young people on their own for too long, leading to alarming criminality among very young people in the city. At least Bowser seemed invested in reopening schools sooner. Just as a for instance.[/quote]

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