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[b]Juvenile offenders thoughts do not run so deep as to “sense that the city does not care about them”.[/b] The whole genesis of Racine’s proposal is that kids’ brains are not fully developed, so they certainly aren’t thinking as deeply as you suggest. What they sense is that there are few consequences for criminal behavior in DC so they take their teenage years as a crime freebie. Being committed to DYRS is a bit of street cred for many kids because they know that commitment doesn’t mean you will be locked away, you’ll generally still be at home with no supervision and running the streets.

Feel free to do a search of the kids between 16-17 in DC who have been charged as adults with murder, and then realize that under this proposal those kids would have been looking at a commitment to DYRS (which does not necessarily mean they will be detained) until a max of age 21. Here are some examples: the murderer of Neil Godleski in 2010, sniper Lee Malvo, one of the people charged with killing 10 year old Makiyah Wilson, and Maurice Bellamy who was convicted of murdering 2 people at age 17. [/quote]

I disagree - I think people have a pretty good sense about when the city (or whichever) government doesn't care about them, whether or not they can articulate it.[/quote]

It doesn't help that the Post and other left-leaning elite narrative makers constantly tell them that a) they can never get ahead because of racism,  b) they are poor because of racism, and c) money and bling is the source of happiness.[/quote]

Juvenile offenders read the Washington Post? Who knew?[/quote]

not PP, but aside from your snide Post reading comment, do you not think the lives of juvenile offenders are shaped in any way by narrative makers - who quote obviously influence voter and policy decisions by anyone who does read the papers.[/quote]

Can you point to some specific examples of where the "narrative making" Washington Post or other left leaning elites are saying it's OK for people to engage in violent crime and carjackings?[/quote]

Yet more specific examples:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/nats-park-shooting-neighborhood/2021/07/21/6cb9a454-e987-11eb-8950-d73b3e93ff7f_story.html

Identifying with the crime perpetrators over the enormous good the gentrification of the last 20 years in SW has done. If people can’t afford the rent and can live there without gang warfare then they should move. The post always sides with the liberal bleeding heart cause.[/quote]

You're right that they're always putting this spin on. They almost make it seem like you should just give away all of your possessions, and find a poor person to give your house to. I can't tell if the last year in DC is making me more conservative or so many people have lost their minds and just gone so far left that they're out in the wilderness like these Wapo writers. [/quote]

I was literally just thinking this same thing. It’s as if I’ve become conservative, and I was always liberal and aghast during the Trump years the entire time, as some kind of  uncontrollable, reflexive backlash against liberals ramming questionable social policy down my throat. Wether it’s their insistence that less policing, or at least less tough on crime policing, and allowing teens to get away with petty crime, is an acceptable goal toward achieving amorphous equity goals or all the other. I am basically a tax paying citizen in dc. I own property here. Where are the council members who are putting my interest first? They seem to kowtow to the poorest citizens who also happen to cause crime. I’m sorry to say that but it’s true. Like expect Charles Allen to do the exact opposite of what is recommended to be done during a time of rising crime. I also can’t stand the amount of woke scolding from the left. Not everything single issue is caused by systemic racism. Personal accountability is a big part of crime. Is it now racist to say that???? I feel like I can’t just say things that are plainly obvious and we all have to just contend with rising crime and then point to a lack of funding or lack of programs or lack of this or that when really just stop fking committing crimes.[/quote]

I feel the same way and I guarantee there are a lot more in DC starting to feel this way. We have to [b]coalesce around some sensible policies and back some candidates that are reasonable on these issues. [/b]The far left is way too emboldened right now, and think everyone agrees with them. There used to be a more moderate counterbalance in DC, but like you said the far left are trying to wield accusations of racism like a weapon to push all of their policies through. It's had a chilling affect on dissent and people willing to stand up to some of the more outrageous plans.[/quote]

There have been some each election cycle, but we are going to need ranked voting to push them through. How do we make that happen? [/quote]

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