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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes they absolutely are.

Why do you think they don't have strong parent figures to show them right from wrong? Why do you think they don't care about consequences because they feel they have nothing to lose?

Because we incarcerate black people at a disproportionate rate and give them disproportionate sentences compared to other races. Because applicants with black sounding names are 50% less likely to receive a callback despite submitting an identical resume as someone with a white sounding name. Because for decades we denied black people home loans and redlined them out of many parts of the city, concentrating poverty and denying them the single greatest wealth-builder in the world. Because we concentrate public and affordable housing in the ghettos created by that redlining which perpetuates the cycle of poverty and creates long commutes for residents - time they could be spending with their kids. Because we introduced crack into their communities to fund illegal operations in South America. Because we allowed their communities to become food deserts, making it harder for developing kids to get proper nutrition.

It's literally ALL because of systemic racism.

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good thing!

Anonymous wrote:

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 wrote:The swift and certain punishment would have to extend to juveniles, who are unfortunately frequently (and sometimes murderous) offenders here in DC. Cops just caught an armed carjacker from the other day who stuck a gun in a woman' face and stole her car. 13 years old:

https://mobile.twitter.com/EvanLambertTV/status/1420802962520166403

I know people say, "That is such a shame" but what it really is is proof of the breakdown of families and a culture that glorifies violence and thuggery. So the only shame is that there are few consequences for teenagers who behave this way, so they keep on doing it. And, as many people have asked on these threads, Where the hell are these kids' parents??

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of things should be decriminalized.

Gun violence should be hyper-criminalized. Mandatory minimums when convicted of a gun crime. No bail for people who commit crimes using guns.

Agreed. Not a big fan of carjacking either even though usually no one gets hurt. Maryland suburbs need stricter sentencing as well.

If your goal is to deter criminals, we know longer sentences don't work. The type of person who kills a kid doesn't think - Oh my, I will get a life sentence if I pull this trigger - before they commit a crime. You get one off the street but continue to breed others. I really want to understand the gaps and failures in our system.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of things should be decriminalized.

Gun violence should be hyper-criminalized. Mandatory minimums when convicted of a gun crime. No bail for people who commit crimes using guns.

Agreed. Not a big fan of carjacking either even though usually no one gets hurt. Maryland suburbs need stricter sentencing as well.

If your goal is to deter criminals, we know longer sentences don't work. The type of person who kills a kid doesn't think - Oh my, I will get a life sentence if I pull this trigger - before they commit a crime. You get one off the street but continue to breed others. I really want to understand the gaps and failures in our system.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A lot of things should be decriminalized.

Gun violence should be hyper-criminalized. Mandatory minimums when convicted of a gun crime. No bail for people who commit crimes using guns.

Agreed. Not a big fan of carjacking either even though usually no one gets hurt. Maryland suburbs need stricter sentencing as well.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of things should be decriminalized.

Gun violence should be hyper-criminalized. Mandatory minimums when convicted of a gun crime. No bail for people who commit crimes using guns.