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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still happy with Janeese and going to vote for her again.  I think her positions and actions on crime have been far more insightful than the standard Bowser stooge who's just looking at what polls well.  Brandon Todd never did anything meaningful and we don't need a repeat of him.[/quote]

There it is, folks. Please tell us how Janeese's actions on crime have been so "insightful."[/quote]

She sends detailed newsletters with specifics of the issues and what she's doing about it.  Have you actually read those?  DC, especially Ward 4 crime / safety is discussed in a lot of those (maybe all?).

She's come to fairly contentious community meetings and given clear answers on what she can do and what she won't do.  And she brings in MPD, USAO, and others as effectively as I think she can.

But if you want to spout slogans and vote based off "public safety and crime tops my list of priorities" without any meat behind it then you've made up your mind based on emotion not logic.[/quote]

Janeese *cried* when Bowser said 17 year olds arrested for murder should be detained. She said jail would “traumatize” them. Next! I will vote for whoever is most likely to defeat this crazy person[/quote]

That is crazy. I can’t believe she said that. Her and Bowser seem on opposite sides. [/quote]

Maybe she didn't?  It seems like what a conservative would like to think she said.[/quote]

It was in the Washington Post. [/quote]

Would you mind sharing that, so we could see it in its appropriate context?[/quote]

"The D.C. mayor’s legislative proposal that would impose new penalties for gun crimes and make it easier to detain some youths awaiting trial encountered fierce resistance at a council hearing Tuesday, even as the city’s top federal prosecutor and a host of residents said the bill would help reduce violent crime in the nation’s capital.

[b]D.C. Council member Janeese Lewis George (D-Ward 4) said the proposed legislation would be “incredibly traumatizing” to children."[/b]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/27/bowser-crime-bill-dc-council-opposition/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjQ3NTcwMjIzIiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY4NzkyNDgwMCwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY4OTIyMDc5OSwiaWF0IjoxNjg3OTI0ODAwLCJqdGkiOiI2NzlkMDMyZS00OGI4LTQ1YWMtOWUzNS1jM2MyYzc0ODliMDAiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZGMtbWQtdmEvMjAyMy8wNi8yNy9ib3dzZXItY3JpbWUtYmlsbC1kYy1jb3VuY2lsLW9wcG9zaXRpb24vIn0.kUhx36eYTFHxyiPfFMH4x29aObX0_ums1PQD7q3lKfI[/quote]

Thanks for sharing. I do agree with her statement. I would love our Council and Mayor's office to be seeking alternative placements other than prison for children who are awaiting trial. I agree that for many of these kids, going back to their house is not the best option.[/quote]

Uh, well, that is already what DC does. Which is the problem. We have the same teenagers getting arrested over and over and over and over and over. Eventually they kill someone, and people are surprised? That 15 year old girl who killed another girl in a carjacking had previously been arrested seven times for carjacking. It seems clear at this point that the answer is not to keep doing what we're doing and pretend it's working. [/quote]

No. DC does not do that apparently. Month ago a group or very young kids beat up a homeowner who had put out for them something  they could play ball with in the alley. After 9 pm he told them his toddler needed to sleep and they had to wrap it up and they just attacked him and seriously injured him, they had been around since 6pm with no supervision, no dinner, no thing just young tweens on their own. The oldest was identified and after the arrest was released to his family. A young kid who violently beat up a man who had just set up something for them to play, only because after 3 hours snd in the dark asked them to wrap it up due to being night time, clearly grew up in a very f-up family if he even had one. Fact that he was roaming around in April mid week until past 9pm suggests family is the last place he should have been release to. And this seems to be what happens. Kids are released to their families and sometimes the families are not able to deal with them or are actually why the kids behave like this

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