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Anonymous wrote:I think what it says is if you want to stop the cycle of violence in DC, you have to work harder on kids. Those of us who work in schools know that you can see the writing on the wall in the early grades. Violence as a way of life gets passed down in families and in neighborhoods. People focus on the cost of interventions but a lifetime of trials and incarceration is the most expensive, to say nothing of victims. The only way to fix it is to work harder on intervening with kids. Once a kid is a teen who’s shot someone, I think it’s much harder. Families, or those in families who care, often try by relocating the kid out of state, which is semi-effective. But they often just come back.

I don’t think any of this is news. The Wire explorer this pretty thoroughly 20 years ago, and it also was the motivating premise behind things like the summer employment program for District kids, and breaking up the massive housing projects as the concentrated poverty was known to contribute to these poor outcomes. Years ago it was often blamed on lack of economic opportunities forcing kids to turn to drug sales but the economy has been good, unemployment low and minimum wage high. Incarceration rates are also significantly down — one of the older theories was that with so many fathers incarcerated, kids didn’t have any role models except that.
I think part of the problem is celebrities who make the gangster life look cool. And the ease of getting cheap guns due to cheap imported weapons and lack of gun control. And it’s important to remember that it’s a very small percentage of people causing almost all of the problems.

Anonymous wrote:I think what it says is if you want to stop the cycle of violence in DC, you have to work harder on kids. Those of us who work in schools know that you can see the writing on the wall in the early grades. Violence as a way of life gets passed down in families and in neighborhoods. People focus on the cost of interventions but a lifetime of trials and incarceration is the most expensive, to say nothing of victims. The only way to fix it is to work harder on intervening with kids. Once a kid is a teen who’s shot someone, I think it’s much harder. Families, or those in families who care, often try by relocating the kid out of state, which is semi-effective. But they often just come back.

Anonymous wrote:This stuff is going to make it impossible for people to get fair trials. Jurors will assume that if you got arrested, you must be really bad

Anonymous wrote:I think what it says is if you want to stop the cycle of violence in DC, you have to work harder on kids. Those of us who work in schools know that you can see the writing on the wall in the early grades. Violence as a way of life gets passed down in families and in neighborhoods. People focus on the cost of interventions but a lifetime of trials and incarceration is the most expensive, to say nothing of victims. The only way to fix it is to work harder on intervening with kids. Once a kid is a teen who’s shot someone, I think it’s much harder. Families, or those in families who care, often try by relocating the kid out of state, which is semi-effective. But they often just come back.

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Anonymous wrote:This stuff is going to make it impossible for people to get fair trials. Jurors will assume that if you got arrested, you must be really bad

It's a logical conclusion. At least after the 5th or 6th arrest. You probably are pretty bad.

Anonymous wrote:This stuff is going to make it impossible for people to get fair trials. Jurors will assume that if you got arrested, you must be really bad

Anonymous wrote:Arrest people makes them murderers. People are being turned to violence by the oppressive criminal justice system. Stop arrests now!

Anonymous wrote:Governor Bowser - "So you're saying we need to arrest people LESS. Got it!"

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