Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Except that's all BS.

The mayor and the city council have all the power they need to crack down on crime. We don't need to blame our problems on some unaccountable bogeyman behind the curtain.

Bower and the police department have offered a million proposals, only to see them shot down by the city council.

JLG knows her pro-crime policies are wildly unpopular and she's in danger of losing her primary next year, so now her office is pretending the city council is actually powerless when it comes to crime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Except that's all BS.

The mayor and the city council have all the power they need to crack down on crime. We don't need to blame our problems on some unaccountable bogeyman behind the curtain.

Bower and the police department have offered a million proposals, only to see them shot down by the city council.

JLG knows her pro-crime policies are wildly unpopular and she's in danger of losing her primary next year, so now her office is pretending the city council is actually powerless when it comes to crime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Except that's all BS.

The mayor and the city council have all the power they need to crack down on crime. We don't need to blame our problems on some unaccountable bogeyman behind the curtain.

Bower and the police department have offered a million proposals, only to see them shot down by the city council.

JLG knows her pro-crime policies are wildly unpopular and she's in danger of losing her primary next year, so now her office is pretending the city council is actually powerless when it comes to crime.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

But if you review the data, the entire point is that getting rid of JLG won't do anything to reverse the worrying trend. DC's crime problem stops and starts with the prosecution and the courts, plus some element of MPD not getting "good enough" evidence to satisfy prosecutors and certain judges.

Read this: https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/the-rhetoric-and-reality-of-dcs-prosecutors

Changing the composition of the Council won't really do much except assuage some feelings for about 5 minutes. And then you're still stuck with a broken USAO.

Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George is the face of soft-on-crime policies in Washington D.C. She's up for reelection next year. Throw her out and send a message.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do we turn it around. Is it just more police, more arrests, more prosecutions? I'm on board for all of those, by they way. If someone says "violence interruptors" to me, I'll scream.

But I'd love to know in a practical sense how we address this. It's not acceptable. I get there are multiple factors playing into this (homelessness, mental health issues, and substance abuse are all major ones from where I sit). What specifically did DC do last time to make it so much better? What do other cities do?

To me the biggest issues seems to be the apathy of people in positions of power about the problems we face. People have been excusing the violence for years now and arguing it's "not that bad" or that virtually any enforcement mechanism is racist. Well, we somehow managed to reduce violence by a lot in the last two decades, so what did it? And what changed? And how do we get back on track? If we've done it before, we can do it again.

DC Crime Facts (https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/ and https://twitter.com/dccrimefacts) shares a lot of data that suggests lack of prosecution and enforcement of parole violations is a huge problem.