Anonymous wrote:These crimes were organized on social media. There is the growing perception on social media, especially tick tock, that DC is very easy/lenient on youth crime and thus there is very little risk involved for larcenies.

Yes it is a shame social media companies are not held to account. Maybe a law suit or 500 would make them shut this sh$t down. That is a bridge too far for the law and order folks.

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Anonymous wrote:And what are churches and schools doing, if they can't do any good, tax these churches and make school principals accountable for their lack of leadership.

You skipped a major step, the parents! But they will continue doing crimes and when they turn into adults will land in prison. Oh, well.

Well many of the parents skipped a major step by creating children that they did not want.

Anonymous wrote:Metro station was shut down, there were crowds of literally hundreds of teens milling around up and down M St, several shootings , more than a dozen robberies by groups of teens from 2nd and M all the way to Hill East.

What precipitated this? Was there a concert or something last night?

What? I was there in the evening and thought Navy yard was quite empty.. although some popular spots seemed busy. I had no clue anything whatsoever was going wrong.

Anonymous wrote:Metro station was shut down, there were crowds of literally hundreds of teens milling around up and down M St, several shootings , more than a dozen robberies by groups of teens from 2nd and M all the way to Hill East.

What precipitated this? Was there a concert or something last night?

November 3, 2020 happened. Which brought in a new, absent US Attorney. But, good news, help is on the way.

I don’t understand what happened. Could someone update please? I live bear Navy Yard. I’m hearing the metro was only closed due to shooting in anacostia, not NY.

Anonymous wrote:And what are churches and schools doing, if they can't do any good, tax these churches and make school principals accountable for their lack of leadership.

You skipped a major step, the parents! But they will continue doing crimes and when they turn into adults will land in prison. Oh, well.

Anonymous wrote:And what are churches and schools doing, if they can't do any good, tax these churches and make school principals accountable for their lack of leadership.

Schools aren't allowed to suspend kids anymore, another pandemic era "reform", and it's been at least a decade since social promotion became the norm.

Churches are irrelevant. Personal responsibility is essential. The habit we, as a society, have gotten into of blaming someone or something else for everything needs to stop.

And what are churches and schools doing, if they can't do any good, tax these churches and make school principals accountable for their lack of leadership.

Best solution is to make criminals do manual labor to pay fines and rehabilitation courses.

DC's current practices aren't doing any favors to these young men, if they don't get caught for smaller offenses, they become fearless and go deeper for bigger offenses on a path of destruction.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe DC Police should actually do their jobs, and the DC prosecutors should actually do THEIR jobs. You all elected this mayor, you should get rid of her. She's a disgrace. DC has returned to the 1970s and 80s.

Maybe parents should do their jobs first?

They didn't. Now what?

Are you going to hire, train and hold accountable new parents?

Fines and community service.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe DC Police should actually do their jobs, and the DC prosecutors should actually do THEIR jobs. You all elected this mayor, you should get rid of her. She's a disgrace. DC has returned to the 1970s and 80s.

Maybe parents should do their jobs first?

They didn't. Now what?

Are you going to hire, train and hold accountable new parents?

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Anonymous wrote:Start with giving out tickets for eating food on metro.
Next tickets for jumping turnstiles.
Collect on camera tickets.
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I was in another US city earlier this week and was shocked when I saw police out pulling cars over.

I have a different idea. How about we start with prosecuting and punishing violent offenders.

This^ and fining their parents. Anyone in double digit age should know robbing and hurting anyone isn't acceptable behavior.

And where are parents of these teens? Do they've ANY responsibility at all?

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Anonymous wrote:Start with giving out tickets for eating food on metro.
Next tickets for jumping turnstiles.
Collect on camera tickets.
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I was in another US city earlier this week and was shocked when I saw police out pulling cars over.

I have a different idea. How about we start with prosecuting and punishing violent offenders.

All of this. These kids know they can get away with almost anything.