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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer of course is severe prison time.

Not too many people are going to do this if they are looking at 20-30.

But no one is looking at anything anymore in DC.  We are one of the few cities where violent crime is still going up.

It's absurd.

And it's killing DC.

It's not hard. Soft on violent crime is destroying the city.[/quote]

Prison time is racist.[/quote]

People cry about the inequity in prison sentences for crack and cocaine, but harsh prison sentences effectively ended the slaughter in the streets during the crack wars, so I was OK with them. Don't recall a similar slaughter in the suburbs over cocaine powder, but if equity was the issue, I would have given harsh senteces for that too rather than lower crack sentencing when crack was causing daily shoot outs. Anyhow, harsh prison sentences saved a lot of lives. Then the but racism! pendulum swung, and now we have no laws and sentencing. But everyone feels good right? no worries that even today the primary victims are urban poor?  
We need to toughen up buttercup on our laws and sentencing (as well as actually ensure that reform - ie academic and life skills--is offered to incarcerated youth, or call in the Guard for some kind of lockdown. Otherwise, we are all just bowling pins for these teenage criminals. We all know who they are. It's time to stop admiring the problem.[/quote]

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