Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:49     Subject: Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:It's a 3-part problem. You need to hire more police (of course), but you also need to remove the shackles and give them political and real support. If they think the brass and the Council/Mayor will throw them to the wolves for almost any reason, they will continue to hold back and respond long after the criminals have left the scene.

Lastly (and most importantly of all!), we need to reform the criminal justice system so that offenders are being kept in prison so they can't hurt innocent law-abiding citizens. You an arrest the bad guys as many times as you like, but it doesn't matter if they get out time and time again. More police won't solve that problem. If you get caught with an illegal gun, how about we throw the book at you and not just give a little slap on the wrist for once?


Yep.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:48     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would feel more safe in DC if there were more police on the streets.


What parts of D.C. do you feel unsafe in? I bet there are a lot of police on the streets already in most of them.


North East
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:36     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:The cops are doing their jobs. It's the prosecutors and courts that are letting offenders out with no bail, and no jail time.[/quote

+ 100]
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:34     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:
It's more complex. I used to be the COO of OSSE. I really don't know where all the education money goes. We also need housing and mental health services.


What we need is the political will to tell people to parent their children. To tell women not to have multiple children by multiple men to whom they are not married when neither parent has the education or job skills to take care of their children.
What we KNOW is that finishing high school and delaying child-bearing until you are an employed adult is the way out of poverty. Bonus points for getting married and staying married in terms of beneficial outcomes for kids.
Do we need programs that help people who failed to make those prudent life choices? Yes. But we also need for politicians to be very vocal about what society's expectations are in terms of people getting themselves together. Instead, all DC politicians do is blame "the other"---schools, gentrifiers, systemic racism---without every uttering a single word about personal responsibility.


+1. Absolutely. The kids who are carjacking and committing armed robberies at age 13 aren’t doing it because of systemic racism.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:23     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:I would feel more safe in DC if there were more police on the streets.


What parts of D.C. do you feel unsafe in? I bet there are a lot of police on the streets already in most of them.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:11     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:The cops are doing their jobs. It's the prosecutors and courts that are letting offenders out with no bail, and no jail time.


If they were doing their jobs, wouldn’t there be less crime?
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 10:10     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
It's more complex. I used to be the COO of OSSE. I really don't know where all the education money goes. We also need housing and mental health services.


What we need is the political will to tell people to parent their children. To tell women not to have multiple children by multiple men to whom they are not married when neither parent has the education or job skills to take care of their children.
What we KNOW is that finishing high school and delaying child-bearing until you are an employed adult is the way out of poverty. Bonus points for getting married and staying married in terms of beneficial outcomes for kids.
Do we need programs that help people who failed to make those prudent life choices? Yes. But we also need for politicians to be very vocal about what society's expectations are in terms of people getting themselves together. Instead, all DC politicians do is blame "the other"---schools, gentrifiers, systemic racism---without every uttering a single word about personal responsibility.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:59     Subject: Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
It's more complex. I used to be the COO of OSSE. I really don't know where all the education money goes. We also need housing and mental health services.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:54     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:The cops are doing their jobs. It's the prosecutors and courts that are letting offenders out with no bail, and no jail time.


Yes that is definitely a problem.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:54     Subject: Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
It's a 3-part problem. You need to hire more police (of course), but you also need to remove the shackles and give them political and real support. If they think the brass and the Council/Mayor will throw them to the wolves for almost any reason, they will continue to hold back and respond long after the criminals have left the scene.

Lastly (and most importantly of all!), we need to reform the criminal justice system so that offenders are being kept in prison so they can't hurt innocent law-abiding citizens. You an arrest the bad guys as many times as you like, but it doesn't matter if they get out time and time again. More police won't solve that problem. If you get caught with an illegal gun, how about we throw the book at you and not just give a little slap on the wrist for once?
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:53     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Anonymous wrote:The cops are doing their jobs. It's the prosecutors and courts that are letting offenders out with no bail, and no jail time.


Prosecutors and the courts are controlled by the Federal government, not DC.

It sometimes feels like Federal prosecutors are purposely trying to undermine the DC government.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:50     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
The cops are doing their jobs. It's the prosecutors and courts that are letting offenders out with no bail, and no jail time.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:50     Subject: Re:Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
I would feel more safe in DC if there were more police on the streets.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:45     Subject: Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
Why do you think it's good? There were cops on the scene when the 6 year old was shot, there were cops all around Nats Stadium for that shooting, there are always cops around. If more cops and more funding for cops stopped crime America would be a crime-free utopia.

Of course Bowser suggested it, because it's both expensive and ineffective. Figuring out how to actually lower crime would be complicated and different enough from what we've been doing to require political bravery. Not exactly Bowser's wheelhouse.
Anonymous
Post 07/29/2021 09:42     Subject: Mayor Bowser calling for more police and more police funding
I think this is a good thing!