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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm confused though...
Can anyone clarify before I pick up the phone? I am pro anti crime measures--is there anything I need to advocate for at this point? Are you saying there will be significant (crime friendly) changes introduced before the second vote? Does the Tuesday vote not put the bill in effect? I agree DC needs urgency on this.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/2841628/dc-council-passes-crime-omnibus-passes-first-vote/[/quote]

Everyone is pro anti crime.  It's just different people see different ways to do that.  You can also look up data on what actually works.[/quote]

OK, I am going to be really clear. I am, and have always been, pro 'broken windows' approach to crime. I've  worked in DC youth services and I am fine with measure to prevent cycles of violence long term. However, we have actually already been doing this forever just fwiw, and I don't think DC does it particularly well, and I don't think the more recently introduced social justice approach to crime in DC of the past four years is effective short OR long term or of benefit to any community. It's been a disaster, that will inculcate further disaster. SO in terms of what works to keep my city and me safe, I am fine with normal policing and sentencing measures and we are FAR FROM THAT. I've watched the Council dilute all consequences with horror, and they have been one of the contributing factors to our current woes. We need a course correction now. They can keep doing the same poor job throwing money at social services, but their tinkering with the justice system needs to stop. If anything, they need to over correct on this, as well as examine why their long term social 'helping' measures are so d** ineffective and frankly, lacking in transparency and accountability. Why isn't friendship place ever open? But it's sexier to just keep stripping the public of basic protections that do work, I guess. Just to make a point that's lost on most of us, except that crowd in t-shirts heckling at the vote on Secure DC. Charming bunch, that. Anyhow, I hope I am clear on my flavor of 'anti-crime'.[/quote]

You work in youth services but it's ineffective? So you're ineffective??  I'm trying to follow your perspective and logic, but don't get it.[/quote]

Not sure what's unclear. You can have a view from the inside of how ineffective an organization is. Have you never experienced that on the job? I worked--there were parts that were rewarding, and parts that were as I describe above. Not for profits and government do goodery in our town are basically employment programs for those who work in them. I should know.[/quote]

Please fire yourself, you are part of the problem.  Thanks for telling on yourself.[/quote]

I don't think  you should encourage people to fire themselves for telling the truth about the organization and the type of organizations they have worked for.
Isn't exposing the truth important?[/quote]

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