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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s comical the lengths people will go to avoid admitting that crime is rising and to analyze the causes of the very real crime increase.

It’s sort of like how inflation wasn’t a thing, then was transient and was then finally known to be a real issue.

Perhaps this culture of lenient progressive criminal justice reform, and it’s policies that, while well intended, actually exacerbate crime. If criminals know they’ll have less consequences it stands to reason they’ll be more brash about it. I’m not a rocket scientist, and I understand the pandemic had some residual effects, but really, in DC we left teens off with a slap on the wrist. We’ve have Charles Allen types who implement things like the Youth Rehabilitation act, or who want to allow jury trials for all misdemeanors which would gum up the courts (even if phased in slowly), or when he blamed the city for not cleaning up leaves quickly enough when teens were lighting them on fire under cars in SE.

It’s just comical. There are so many impressionable sheep willing to sacrifice their own safety because some misguided social justice activists tell them incarceration isn’t fair to violent criminals. I mean honestly this is why elections are lost. Not in dc obviously because we are super progressive and don’t have the votes for a more centrist city counsel or even anyone willing to run against incumbents, but they’re lost in places where they can vote for alternate candidates. You can’t lie to people, tell them to stop worrying, tell them “crime was worse in the 80’s!!!!l” and act as if that’s helpful.[/quote]

What is difficult for Charles Allen-types to understand is that we need to create a system that actually prevents crime and rehabilitates criminals. Absolving bad behavers of responsibility is not it, and creates the perception that criminality is a legitimate and sustainable life path. [/quote]

And what is difficult for many people to understand is that there’s no obvious cause or solution to increased violence. It’s happening in a lots of difference places under lots of different politicians. It’s a whole bunch of factors and reversing it is not going to be easy or simple— certainly not just locking everyone up.

If you can figure out how to create a criminal justice system that prevents crime and rehabilitates criminals let us know because that’s clearly not what we have anywhere and I think everyone would be interested[/quote]

It's obvious that violence has many causes, but doing nothing will not solve the problem. Charles Allen practically wants to incentivize crime. You need to look outside the US for the answers to rehabilitation because our system is a mess. It can be done. [/quote]

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