Anonymous
Anonymous
08/09/2023 21:53
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can a lawyer weigh in on why parents can't be held responsible for crimes committed by minors? From what I can tell, DC Counsel keeps arguing that the "juvenile" brain isn't fully formed until age 25 or so and we need to go even easier on these kids. If 14 year olds are committing carjackings, armed robberies etc but basically can't get punished. Then who is responsible? No ONE? this is a crime lovers paradise. Can't parents be prosecuted if their kid uses a gun n the home to shoot someone? Seems like if a parent is so lax that their 12 year old if committing crimes at 1am, then they should also be held responsible.
From Day #1 DCPS hammers into AA kids that they are victims and the system is structurally against them. They watch YouTube videos of kids taking whatever they want with zero consequences. After five years of this they are sadly fully programmed and armed and dangerous. It can turn out no other way.
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Wow. My kids went to DCPS and never got that message. Nor did any of their friends. Please crawl back into your hole.
Maybe not when your kids were there. But DCPS in the past five years is completely off the rails with the grievance agenda. Just take a look at the suggested summer reading lists. They are poisoning these kids and we a witnessing the consequences.
Could a contributing factor also be fewer alternative school seats (Wash Met closure) plus the closure of several charter middle/high schools in high poverty areas? Those schools may not have been meeting the mark academically but the families advocating for them to stay open cited the importance of those schools for keeping their students out of trouble.
Anonymous
08/08/2023 13:59
Subject: Re:DC crime stats - holy Toledo
And what happens when they leave and we are in the same position as before? This so stupid. How about the council, the mayor, and prosecutors actually do their jobs?? Enact policies that prevent repeat offenders from being back on the streets immediately, and prosecute crime. It isn't rocket science, ffs.
Anonymous
08/08/2023 11:52
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:The DC Council votes on the budget. The DC council has routinely reduced policing numbers that the Mayor has asked forAnonymous wrote:Who develops, negotiates, and signs the DC budget?
Yes. The council is making good on its unanimous promise to BLM to “defund the police.”
The result is the massive uptick in violent street crime - which should come as a surprise to no one.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 19:49
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:You are using a red herring and diverting from the elected offices that are elected and materially empowered to deal with DC crime. They are the city council, the DC Attorney General, the US Attorney General and US Attorney's office and the US Congress.Anonymous wrote:So in what ways is the Mayor's seriousness manifesting itself? What actions has the Mayor taken to address high crime, and why have they failed?
The US Congress has done its bit by blocking portions of the catch and release crime bill and forcing its modification. The other offices above have done nothing.
The Mayor as argued against defunding of police, and argue against reduced sentencing that has caused more crime. But she is not empowered, nor is she elected under DC's system, to be addressing crime. We have an AG and USAG who decides prosecution policy and they do not in any way answer to her, a council which decides funding and does not answer to her. Those are the entities responsible for crime fighting, not, in DC, the Mayor.
To appease elements of the WTU, the Mayor kept DCPS schools shuttered for about a school year longer than was necessary (per the science). I've yet to come across someone who can argue with a straight face that this was not at least partly responsible for the spike in youth crime.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 19:47
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:Maybe not when your kids were there. But DCPS in the past five years is completely off the rails with the grievance agenda. Just take a look at the suggested summer reading lists. They are poisoning these kids and we a witnessing the consequences.
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And the reason for promoting the grievance agenda and dividing kids by race and background, as DCPS and teachers unions now cravenly do, is to distract from the fact that DCPS kids performance in math, English and science has plummeted relative to national average, even controlled for income, race etc.
It is the same as the real reason for the "gap" being the fundamental metric DCPS uses as well as, it is to distract from the failures of DCPS.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 19:41
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Can a lawyer weigh in on why parents can't be held responsible for crimes committed by minors? From what I can tell, DC Counsel keeps arguing that the "juvenile" brain isn't fully formed until age 25 or so and we need to go even easier on these kids. If 14 year olds are committing carjackings, armed robberies etc but basically can't get punished. Then who is responsible? No ONE? this is a crime lovers paradise. Can't parents be prosecuted if their kid uses a gun n the home to shoot someone? Seems like if a parent is so lax that their 12 year old if committing crimes at 1am, then they should also be held responsible.
From Day #1 DCPS hammers into AA kids that they are victims and the system is structurally against them. They watch YouTube videos of kids taking whatever they want with zero consequences. After five years of this they are sadly fully programmed and armed and dangerous. It can turn out no other way.
+1
Wow. My kids went to DCPS and never got that message. Nor did any of their friends. Please crawl back into your hole.
Maybe not when your kids were there. But DCPS in the past five years is completely off the rails with the grievance agenda. Just take a look at the suggested summer reading lists. They are poisoning these kids and we a witnessing the consequences.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 17:54
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:Crime's up all over the country.
WRONG. In about 50% of US counties, violent crime and murder is not up. In fact if you go on ten year trend, which is more accurate given the outlier event of Covid, DC violent crime is 230% of what it was 10 years ago, whereas average for US cities is up only 42%.
DC is a city experience a particularly large increase in violent crime -- a violent crime wave.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 17:46
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
The DC Council votes on the budget. The DC council has routinely reduced policing numbers that the Mayor has asked forAnonymous wrote:Who develops, negotiates, and signs the DC budget?
Anonymous
08/07/2023 17:43
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
The Mayor's abdication of responsibility is a black mark on her record.
She is quite literally the only grownup in the room saddled with a Council that controls all this.
You can thank the city Council for dumping thousands of hardened felons on the streets and hobbling the police.
Where did the Mayor "abdicate" doing what she is able to do? Do you expect her to announce martial law?
Anonymous
08/07/2023 16:51
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
I think there was a stat published a few years ago that by the time a dc resident is arrested for murder, they have already been arrested (on average) 11 times. So there is some merit to pre trial lock up, and tougher sentencing for more minor crimes.
Anonymous
08/07/2023 16:48
Subject: DC crime stats - holy Toledo
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Now that Monumental Sports is complaining about crime in china town (and threatening to move the arena to NoVa), the city council and mayor will likely start to crack down on more of petty stuff in order to stop the bigger stuff later on. money talks in DC.
Ted Leonsis is never moving his teams to NoVA. Good one!
Why not, if DC a isn’t willing to pay for the upgrades needed. This came out at a chine town crime town hall where an exec with monument base at said Chinatown is unsafe and they don’t want to be in a location people don’t want to come visit.