Anonymous wrote:Janeese Lewis George says we can’t arrest people under 18, no matter what crime they committed, because it will traumatize them.

Stop electing these crazy people to office.

What about the trauma inflicted on their victims? If Janeese Lewis George said this, she needs to STFU, step down from Council, and get out of the business of trying to tell us about what our city's society needs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is that people need to stop having kids that they cannot properly take care of. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe there should be some sort of guaranteed income if someone finishes school and attends college or a trade school before having any children. It would be cheaper for society in the long run.

A good first step is to keep abortion + contraception legal, cheap, and easy to attain.

But I see a lot of politicians trying to restrict abortion and contraception + flood the country with cheap guns. That's recipe for an army of traumatized street kids.

This +1000

Anonymous wrote:“agreed to stay out of Northwest DC”? Is this the criminal justice version of NIMBY? He can be turned loose on society, as long as he doesn’t bother anyone in NW DC? Either he presents a danger to society or he doesn’t (and it appears he does).

So it's fine for him to go on crime sprees in NE, SW, and SE? What judge and what prosecutor agreed to that idiocy?

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is that people need to stop having kids that they cannot properly take care of. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe there should be some sort of guaranteed income if someone finishes school and attends college or a trade school before having any children. It would be cheaper for society in the long run.

A good first step is to keep abortion + contraception legal, cheap, and easy to attain.

But I see a lot of politicians trying to restrict abortion and contraception + flood the country with cheap guns. That's recipe for an army of traumatized street kids.

Janeese Lewis George says we can’t arrest people under 18, no matter what crime they committed, because it will traumatize them.

Stop electing these crazy people to office.

Anonymous wrote:“agreed to stay out of Northwest DC”? Is this the criminal justice version of NIMBY? He can be turned loose on society, as long as he doesn’t bother anyone in NW DC? Either he presents a danger to society or he doesn’t (and it appears he does).

Agree. That’s ridiculous.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Based on this kid’s track record and our juvenile justice system he will continue to be arrested and then released until he kills someone. He will get bolder and pull the trigger at some point. We as a system condone this.

Also why aren’t his parents being investigated or arrested or something? This is neglect of the highest order. Your kid has a gun? You go to jail.

+1

Some innocent person will die because we wrung our hands and did nothing.

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line is that people need to stop having kids that they cannot properly take care of. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe there should be some sort of guaranteed income if someone finishes school and attends college or a trade school before having any children. It would be cheaper for society in the long run.

We should incentivize people to NOT have kids. But that will never happen, so here we are.

The bottom line is that people need to stop having kids that they cannot properly take care of. I don’t know what the answer is. Maybe there should be some sort of guaranteed income if someone finishes school and attends college or a trade school before having any children. It would be cheaper for society in the long run.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“agreed to stay out of Northwest DC”? Is this the criminal justice version of NIMBY? He can be turned loose on society, as long as he doesn’t bother anyone in NW DC? Either he presents a danger to society or he doesn’t (and it appears he does).

As someone who lives in NE DC, I am not excited to apparently have to put up with violent crime just because I can’t afford to move to NW.

Eh. He was going to NW to do crime. Banning him from there makes sense. If he were going to SE to do crime, then he might have been banned from there instead.

Thinking this is NIMBY? Y'all have some strange ideas.

+1. Stay away orders from the place you did your crime are almost universal when a criminal defendant is released. A whole quadrant is expansive, and I'd definitely object if I were his lawyer, but if they're issuing quadrant wide stay-aways, they're not just for Northwest.

Whole quadrant stay away orders for a kid in the juvenile system are common. In this circumstance, if his crimes were committed in NW, and he doesn’t live in NW nor have any other reason to be in NW, this is an easy request for a judge to grant.

Well we know he won't ignore an order from a judge. Break the law, sure, but that judge is someone he would respect. /s

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and could think of a few former students this could be. One has a mentally ill parent and another parent truly doing their best but has trauma and PTSD from the other parent. There’s a lack of mental health resources available. And at schools we’re so trauma informed we allow kids to get away with anything. I’ve seen it all in elementary school and the kids just get. a few days suspension to play video games and come back bragging about it.

The real answer to crime is what’s happening at the lower school levels. And that’s a question for city council who has eliminated all disciplinary options.

No, the question is: how do we parent better? How do we help with mental illness better?

PP again and I just read the full article. He was previously released into his mother’s custody. She can’t control him so she needs to be held accountable.

Anonymous wrote:Based on this kid’s track record and our juvenile justice system he will continue to be arrested and then released until he kills someone. He will get bolder and pull the trigger at some point. We as a system condone this.

Also why aren’t his parents being investigated or arrested or something? This is neglect of the highest order. Your kid has a gun? You go to jail.

+1

Residents of DC, blame yourselves and those clowns you elected to office. This is what happens when crime goes unpunished. Our society is out of control because we have too much of the "poor him, he's the victim" mentality. Take him away from his parent/s, send him somewhere to scare the shit out of him, and see where he is after that. There are plenty of kids who grew up in bad homes and they turned out just fine. I hosted a young lady at my house last night for dinner with my family whose home life was awful growing up (she was kicked out at 16 and lived on her own). At 24, she is the most responsible, mature, and kind young lady I know.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“agreed to stay out of Northwest DC”? Is this the criminal justice version of NIMBY? He can be turned loose on society, as long as he doesn’t bother anyone in NW DC? Either he presents a danger to society or he doesn’t (and it appears he does).

As someone who lives in NE DC, I am not excited to apparently have to put up with violent crime just because I can’t afford to move to NW.

Eh. He was going to NW to do crime. Banning him from there makes sense. If he were going to SE to do crime, then he might have been banned from there instead.

Thinking this is NIMBY? Y'all have some strange ideas.

+1. Stay away orders from the place you did your crime are almost universal when a criminal defendant is released. A whole quadrant is expansive, and I'd definitely object if I were his lawyer, but if they're issuing quadrant wide stay-aways, they're not just for Northwest.

Whole quadrant stay away orders for a kid in the juvenile system are common. In this circumstance, if his crimes were committed in NW, and he doesn’t live in NW nor have any other reason to be in NW, this is an easy request for a judge to grant.