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[quote=Anonymous][quote]isten. Listen to me.

I don’t give a flying fk about the minutea of prosecutions in dc. Forest for the trees. Point is that we have a liberal da who is replacing a liberal da and we now have a more liberal city council who loooove these progressive criminal justice reform policies that obviously exacerbate crime. It’s this entire “we just need to keep looking and searching and desperately finding the “root cause” of crime to stop it . If we keep making it easier to commit crimes by not prosecuting things like shoplifting or teens who car jack, we will somehow ensure they go on to grow up out of prison and productive future citizens whose lives weren’t destroyed by jail. Really that’s the progressive approach we’re seeing and is what the city doubled down on with these recent elections. Less police. More restorative justice that doesn’t dissuade anything.

It’s like we’re trying to hard to rewrite history. Trying to keep pounding on a nail that just won’t get drilled correctly with these novel soft on crime approaches.

Through history the best deterrence to rising crime and misbehavior is swift and strong justice. I’m sorry, but we’re going in the wrong direction. Now we get to see more crime happen because everyone is too scared to offend anyone and take violent criminals off the street whoever they may be.[/quote]

What kills me is all these councilpeople endorsing policies that they would NEVER apply with their own children.  When your 7 year old shoplifts the candy bar, you march them back to the store, apologize to the manager and then make them do some sort of restitution.  You don't just give them a free pass so that they can commit additional and escalating anti-social behavior.    But that's what the council wants to do.   We should be forcing non-violent juvenile offenders into street cleaning, litter pickup and other tasks that improve the community.   And the one Robert White proposal I did find interesting was the idea of boarding schools.  Violent juvenile offenders need to (a) be removed from the community to protect everybody else (b) sent somewhere where they get 24/7 supervision and are essentially re-parented into better social behavior by adults who are both strict AND nurturing---with clear goals and requirements for re-entry.    [/quote]

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