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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many of these murders committed by mentally disturbed individuals will it take for us to make some changes as a city? To actually elect people who have some different views?[/quote]

Holy shit, when will you realize that the DC City Council has no oversight of adult criminals or the Bureau of Prisons? Neither the Mayor nor the Council nor the AG had any part in whether this guy was released, how and when he was released, etc.

[b]In fact, the city very likely had NO IDEA this guy was out on the street.[/b] [/quote]

And isn't that a problem? [b]This doesn't happen in other parts of the country.[/b][/quote]

BECAUSE THEY ARE STATES AND CONTROL THEIR OWN COURT AND PRISON SYSTEMS.

I guess we can now rely on you for DC statehood?[/quote]

That is just not true, it does happen in many cities. If your frame of reference is the 90s, things have changed quite a bit.

Policies like Equity in Action and changes in philosophy toward crime and in the types of prosecutors that are backed in running for office have shifted things in this direction in many places. See LA, SF, Minneapolis, Chicago, etc, etc. [/quote]

DC has zero control over the prosecutors, judges, or prisons that house these inmates. So those other cities you’ve listed have zero bearing on this case. [/quote]

The idea that these types of people are not released if only they are in a STATE is simply not true. It happens in MANY places, with the examples above just that. Your framing is naive, simplistic, agenda driven and provides no useful insight into safety.

Understanding the trends in criminal justice and not having simplistic slogans or ideas that this is somehow UNIQUE to DC has a lot to do with understanding this case, as does understanding the structure and players in the DC criminal justice space to some extent.

But the patterns and dynamics and philosophies and trends are NOT unique to DC. Outside of DC you cannot rest assured that NO dangerous people are around that have been released sooner than is optimal for public safety. The issue of housing homeless and newly released prisoners in hotels and apartment buildings (even nice ones the vouchers are above market rate) is ALSO not unique to DC. Read reviews before booking and leave if you feeel unsafe in a hotel. If dangerous people are moved into your apartment building, increase your security efforts to the extent you can and move out.

There was a recent case in NoVA of an elderly woman attacked at a warehouse grocery store. The man who knocked her down and stole her van had 36 bench warrants, in VA. There was a woman shot recently at Costco in Wheaton, the assailant attempted to carjack several vehicles, then mounted a home invasion nearby. He had records in MD and DC. The guy who just stabbed the Senate staffer on H St had just been released from federal prison, he had a record in DC and MD. NONE of those examples have anything to do with a DC Superior Court judge releasing someone from DC jail but from a victim and public safety standpoint, pretty violent.

Stop with the agendas to somehow use this woman's tragic death to promote statehood. It's dumb and it's gross. [/quote]

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