Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 21:29     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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Anonymous wrote:Victim beaten and robbed in front of Kramer Books in Dupont this afternoon during rush hour. Assailants were armed - knives & gun.



HOW? Did no one see, call the police, intervene? This makes me want to vomit. I grew up here, had many late night nachos at Kramer books, dates there, and just browsing the shelves. Unlike most Kramer customers, I vote middle Democrat, independent or Republican for local politics. You all need to take a good look in the mirror for what your votes have done to our city. Who benefitted? Certainly not the folks you think you are helping, and definitely no one else. Change course. You can be a good person AND want sane policy on crime and social issues.


People did call the police. Multiple assailants had guns and knives and were beating someone in broad daylight. What would you have people do?
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 21:28     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:The assailant only got 8 years? Beating someone with a cane to the extent they are permanently disabled and unable to speak only warrants 8 years??


I think it will be less than 6 bc he was held for 2 years pretrial.

This guy had every intervention tried - DC Jail, St. Es, supervised probation, halfway house, etc. And he just kept attacking people, including breaking his own father's hip. He should be held for far longer, he is violent, dangerous and still only @ 30, he may kill someone next.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 21:23     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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Anonymous wrote:The assailant only got 8 years? Beating someone with a cane to the extent they are permanently disabled and unable to speak only warrants 8 years??


Yes, life is cheap in DC. But I recognize the restaurant where they had their last happy memory. It is a wonderful one. We now need armed escorts when we go out to eat in DC. What a system fail. We refuse to deal with the chronic, mentally ill. I am sorry for what happened to relisha rudd, but they didn't save lives by tearing down DC General. it should have been repurposed into a massive, state of the art mental hospital--and our laws should be retooled to hospitalize and treat the insane who are at risk of harming themselves or others. Even their families beg for this. We are heartless.


Exactly. And the new proposal does not address mental illness.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 21:12     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:The assailant only got 8 years? Beating someone with a cane to the extent they are permanently disabled and unable to speak only warrants 8 years??


Yes, life is cheap in DC. But I recognize the restaurant where they had their last happy memory. It is a wonderful one. We now need armed escorts when we go out to eat in DC. What a system fail. We refuse to deal with the chronic, mentally ill. I am sorry for what happened to relisha rudd, but they didn't save lives by tearing down DC General. it should have been repurposed into a massive, state of the art mental hospital--and our laws should be retooled to hospitalize and treat the insane who are at risk of harming themselves or others. Even their families beg for this. We are heartless.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 21:02     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
The assailant only got 8 years? Beating someone with a cane to the extent they are permanently disabled and unable to speak only warrants 8 years??
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 20:28     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Remember the elderly couple viciously beaten outside the Cathedral Commons Giant a few years ago? Criminal was a mentally ill addict and former Landon grad who had beaten his own elderly father and pushed him down stairs.

This was the aftermath for the victims

Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 20:08     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Victim beaten and robbed in front of Kramer Books in Dupont this afternoon during rush hour. Assailants were armed - knives & gun.



HOW? Did no one see, call the police, intervene? This makes me want to vomit. I grew up here, had many late night nachos at Kramer books, dates there, and just browsing the shelves. Unlike most Kramer customers, I vote middle Democrat, independent or Republican for local politics. You all need to take a good look in the mirror for what your votes have done to our city. Who benefitted? Certainly not the folks you think you are helping, and definitely no one else. Change course. You can be a good person AND want sane policy on crime and social issues.


You guys wanted to have your little George Floyd hysteria, treating criminals with hugs and reacharounds. This is what you get.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 19:44     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Victim beaten and robbed in front of Kramer Books in Dupont this afternoon during rush hour. Assailants were armed - knives & gun.



HOW? Did no one see, call the police, intervene? This makes me want to vomit. I grew up here, had many late night nachos at Kramer books, dates there, and just browsing the shelves. Unlike most Kramer customers, I vote middle Democrat, independent or Republican for local politics. You all need to take a good look in the mirror for what your votes have done to our city. Who benefitted? Certainly not the folks you think you are helping, and definitely no one else. Change course. You can be a good person AND want sane policy on crime and social issues.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 19:39     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Victim beaten and robbed in front of Kramer Books in Dupont this afternoon during rush hour. Assailants were armed - knives & gun.

Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 09:17     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
BIG news

Anonymous
Post 01/26/2024 08:04     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
I can't get a straight answer out of his office, an answer in itself perhaps? The slow roll is clearly designed to make alterations requested by DCJL and other activists.

Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 14:54     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Keep up the crime in DC. Very good for the Arlington housing market.


Not really. Good for the outer burbs maybe.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 14:41     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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Anonymous wrote:And still, nothing in this thread can coherently explain why MPD arrests nosedived and crime spiked even though crime has decreased everywhere else including cities that cut police and treated police much worse than DC.

Someone said it starts with leadership and I'm starting to think it's with the DC police union leadership.


Nope. The cops aren’t the problem here.


When arrests are massively down from where they were, and in a way that is completely disjointed from and disproportionate to budget cuts or anything else that has happened, that makes it the fault of the police.


Prior to 2017, USAO consistently prosecuted 70+% of arrests, across R & D administrations. Graves declines to prosecute up to 67% of arrests, basically inverting the ratio. It's the fault of the USA.


Lack of prosecutions is the USAO's fault. But lack of arrests is MPD's fault. Stupid of MPD to make the USAO's failing their own failing.


If the USAO's resources and bandwidth are being sucked up by J6 prosecutions then maybe the White House should help with more staffing.


Not to worry, that USAO office will have a lot more bandwidth exactly one year from today. Just hang on a bit longer.


It wasn't different under Trump. Don't be so naive.


+1000
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 14:40     Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.


Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.


One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.


Being a snowflake and not doing your job of policing because some randos on the internet said some mean things has not helped the black community.


The police are doing their job. And it’s not the rando on the internet who bother them. It’s the cell phone toting protesters who goad them during stressful situations just waiting for the slightest slip up. And recently these protesters have also been ANC commissioners.


Nonsense. Do your job right and ignore them. Statistically there is less than a 0.1% chance of a cop being prosecuted or becoming "internet famous" for any by-the-book arrest.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2024 14:13     Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Keep up the crime in DC. Very good for the Arlington housing market.

Nah, there's spillover