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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand how folks can both support progressive criminal justice reformers like Charles Allen, but are mystified when crime goes up. Or how they can lament gentrification and vocally oppose it, but also live in a beautiful condo that costs $4,000 per month. It just seems like complete cognitive dissonance. Gentrification is literally the reason this city is better these days. It’s become more prosperous, with better restaurants. It’s safer, or it was until the push for criminal justice reform from the last few years which is clearly making us less safe. I mean our council pushed Biden into the corner with this bill. Had the council not removed the two move controversial parts (jury trials for misdeamors and messing with car jacking laws) it may have passed.

This is just a rant. I’m tired, as someone literally from the center of this city, that we have such progressive members. I’m pretty liberal, but there are so many examples of council leniency on crime, most probably from a push for equitable outcomes or whatever, that they just foster an environment of increased crime. I wish we had a strong ob crime and incarceration set of council members. Read the room. Chicago, NY and now DC. People want safety. Vote for your own safety. It’s nonsense.[/quote]

Re:  criminal justice reform:

George Floyd's murder took place when violent crime was relatively low.   Protecting against it wasn't really on most people's radar, save for very low income communities of color.  And honestly, they don't have a voice like many others do.     And justice reform feels good and hypothetically makes sense.    No reasonable person wants to unduly punish people.    Most people want the punishment to fit the crime.

What progressive reformers got wrong, however, is that you can't upend the system without downstream effects, most of which will disproportionately impact those most vulnerable communities.    So when you provide all the supports to the people committing crimes, you completely overlook the victims.   And people take advantage of that.  Add to it the huge influx of even more guns into our society, both from increased manufacturer, fear purchases, ghost guns, and the erosion of gun safety laws, and you have a deadly mix.

[b]Guess who suffers the resulting increased violence?    Lower income communities of color.[/b]

Good criminal justice reform would have been more measured, based on evidence, and would have worked really hard to avoid unintended consequences as much as possible.

It did not.   It was governance by twitter.   Whatever sounded catchy got the support.     And here we are.

Extreme right wing politicians/activists do this too.   We just happen to live in a very progressive region. [/quote]

Bingo[/quote]

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