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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More police will not resolve the issue, [b]addressing poverty, the lack of family structures and rising cost of inflation for food,[/b] and other basic necessities will address the problem. More policing leads to more jail. Once out, those who paid their debt to society are then unable to be reintegrated back into society which causes them to commit more crimes to survive.

America is not a first world country because it cannot even adequately feed children, ensure that working mothers have free safe daycare and provide housing to those in need. [/quote]

Uh, these mass shootings in nightclubs do not happen because the poor killer is trying to put food on the table for his kids.

Also, 4 people are either dead or severely injured. Why don't you also show some compassion for the victims instead of only for the psychopathic killer?[/quote]

Putting moms in almost free apartments in Ward 3 with EBT and subsidized daycare has not changed things for those families, instead, it has brought crime and violence to formerly safe areas. There have always been poor and working class people. To conflate those people with violent criminals does nothing but perpetuate a status quo that harms poor people and minorities the most. Long term strategies and investments are just that, from those who are violent TODAY, the public needs to be kept safe.

This was a hit. The target likely won't be identified. Same with shooting outside of Assets, etc. Sucks to be in the wrong place at the wrong time though, a man crossing the street in Dupont was also hit in that one, like the several folks and security shot Saturday night. When MPD and Frumin were asked where the other 2 shots went in the recent 3pm on a Saturday shooting in Ward 3, near a playground, BreadFurst and P&P, they did not answer. You may not be in the life and a target, but that may not matter. Or you may be shot or stabbed in a carjacking, as happened last evening in Columbia Heights, near Giant. Or you may get shattered facial bones and a TBI in Union Station going to Amtrak.

The common theme is known to be violent people who are not removed from the street, left to prey on the rest of us, poor and MC alike. Who benefits from this status quo? It was set in motion long ago with the closing of Lorton, the schools for violent kids, the shrinking of St. E's, etc. Again, who benefits? Follow the money, although DC Justice Lab makes that challenging. [/quote]

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