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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously, what is the council good for if they refuse to address crime, and claim their well-documented efforts to defund failed even as crime skyrocketed? Maybe we can elect someone who doesn’t gaslight that crime in our ward is significantly worse than before her time in office and is willing to address it.[/quote]

Janeese knows her constituents despise her stance on crime, and she knows she is going to lose in June, so we just have to suffer through her lame talking points between now and then. To wit, she says:

1. Crime isn't nearly as bad as people say

2. If it is that bad, it's not her fault. It's the mayor's fault or the police's fault or the attorney general's fault or Republicans' fault. But it's never her fault (and it's *never* a criminal's fault)

3. Yes, she ran on defunding the police department but she failed, so what's the problem?

4. City council members have no power over crime (even through they're constantly voting to decriminalize something and opposing every single bill Bowser puts up to crack down crime). See #2.

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No. 3 is my favorite. "Yes, I tried to destroy the police department but I wasn't successful because my colleagues stopped me and that's why you should reelect me," isn't much of a campaign pitch. [/quote]

1. Make up what Janeese said.
2. Claim she failed to do what she never said she'd do.
3. Victory?

Great plan guys!

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Divesting from the police department to fund violence prevention programs isn't "destroying the police department".  It's just good policy.[/quote]

Good policy for giving us the highest murder rate in 25 years last year. [/quote]

Violence prevention programs are a social interruption.  They take time to play out, as they typically focus on stopping kids from going down the wrong path or continuing down it in the first place.  Throwing a bunch of people in jail might have an immediate effect, but guess who eventually gets out?[/quote]

“Violence prevention programs” have been tried for forty years. They don’t work. You what works? Putting people in jail for a really long time.[/quote]

Oh really?

They have not been actually invested in for forty years - in the US.  Meanwhile in other countries like most European ones they have.  Putting people in jail for a really long time has been the US's de facto policy though.  It's going sooo well.  We have sooo much less violent crime as a rate than say Oslo here in DC.  Right?  Oh wait.  Not even freaking close.[/quote]

European countries don't have the gun problems we do. If I lived in Europe, I'd be all for violence prevention/interruption and reducing jail time.

We have a gun problem. People in DC need to be prosecuted and jailed for gun crimes. The only thing that has made my family, including my two kids, feel safe within the last year is the huge federal operation that resulted in the arrests of about 20 members of the Kennedy Street Crew for several offenses, many gun-related. I finally feel somewhat safe walking my kids to get ice cream at 7th and Kennedy. That's not because of violence interrupters.

I realize violence interruption is a good long term plan. Right now, I need to care about the short term so that my family and kids can walk around Petworth and Brightwood---to school, to friend's houses, to the library---without the fear of being shot, like my neighbor was 3 months ago.[/quote]

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