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I was open to Janeese, have many friends who are publicly backing her, but everything she has said and done this week has made me really, really nervous.

She always sees crime from the point of view of the criminals, and never from the perspective of the victims of violent crime, and of law abiding people who want to feel safe. Maybe this is because of her experience as a prosecutor? But it's no good. Pouring money into rec centers and giving criminals jobs is fine. But a mayor needs to be very, very clear that people who commit violent crimes will be punished. I've never heard her talk about punishment.

This is exactly how I feel. Empathy is good. But empathy without accountability is just cheering for crime.

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Yep.  And all the midnight basketball/rec center spending is not going to move the needle for the kids already out there committing violent crime.  Those kids aren't coming to those programs.  Those kids need accountability and real rehabilitative-oriented juvenile DETENTION programs that get them out of the communities they are terrorizing so that the kids/families who aren't committing crimes can go to the rec center without fearing being shot for their sneakers on the way there.[/quote]

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