Anonymous
08/24/2025 22:10
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
If we know (or WAMU knows) just 500 young men are responsible for the overwhelming majority of DC crime, it begs the obvious question:
- why are these 500 repeat offenders not in prison?
A complete failure of D.C. laws, regulations, and restrictions on police, is the only answer I can come up with.
Agree or disagree?
Anonymous
08/24/2025 20:28
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
Let’s not overlook the fact these 500 are people!
They need, and have a right, to wrap-around services. That is the only way this issue gets solved.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment but no one has a right to wrap-around services.
Services are voluntary and few have any desire whatsoever to change. The mantra is a joke.
Because you aren't offering the right wraparound services.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 19:23
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
If DC really wanted to reduce violent crime these 500 people would already be in jail. Time’s up.
You cannot incarcerate your way out of the city’s crime problem. Full stop
I know that gets said, but in all seriousness, why not?
DP. The US has one of the highest rates of incarcerated people IN THE WORLD*. If incarceration worked, we should be one of the safest countries in the world. But we're not. Please explain how incarcerating more people would help DC.
The top ten countries with the highest incarceration rates per 100,000 population, based on the most recent available data:
El Salvador: 1,659
Cuba: 794
Rwanda: 637
Turkmenistan: 576
American Samoa: 538
United States: 531
Tonga: 516
Panama: 522
Guam: 475
Uruguay: 449
Source: Grok
Interesting. What's going on with American Samoa, Tonga and Guam? Drug running? Some sort of smuggling?
Kinda weird, because Guam is a big DoD location.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 16:48
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:It's better to incarcerate more and have a safe community than few and an unsafe
Over-incarceration has it's downsides (being inhumane is a big one).
A balance is ideal.
That's an opinion not a fact
Anonymous
08/24/2025 15:52
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:It's better to incarcerate more and have a safe community than few and an unsafe
Over-incarceration has it's downsides (being inhumane is a big one).
A balance is ideal.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 15:44
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
It's better to incarcerate more and have a safe community than few and an unsafe
Anonymous
08/24/2025 15:38
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
If DC really wanted to reduce violent crime these 500 people would already be in jail. Time’s up.
You cannot incarcerate your way out of the city’s crime problem. Full stop
I know that gets said, but in all seriousness, why not?
DP. The US has one of the highest rates of incarcerated people IN THE WORLD*. If incarceration worked, we should be one of the safest countries in the world. But we're not. Please explain how incarcerating more people would help DC.
The top ten countries with the highest incarceration rates per 100,000 population, based on the most recent available data:
El Salvador: 1,659
Cuba: 794
Rwanda: 637
Turkmenistan: 576
American Samoa: 538
United States: 531
Tonga: 516
Panama: 522
Guam: 475
Uruguay: 449
Source: Grok
And El Salvador is the safest...
Anonymous
08/24/2025 15:23
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
They don't really want to reduce crime! Don't you get it? It's scapegoating and political theater. They want to provoke people and bust heads so they can claim it's a war zone and best of all if they provoke and arrest BIPOC. Coming soon to all blue cities. Stop trying to argue back rationally and as if it's real. They don't care.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 15:12
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:When Mary Chen had social workers staffing Sedgwick Gardens, residents made only 2 contacts over 18 months. Now that building has seen a child murdered. Wrap around services is an expensive con by grifting “providers.”
If only our current Councilman had thoughts on this situation.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 13:55
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:It seems that many people who moved here from small towns assume that crime is just part of life in the city and are ignorant to how much less crime there was in DC a decade ago.
This. There was 88 murders in 2012 and this was still far worse than New York, which had 419 murders and 13x as many people.
In 2025 DC has 101 murders and New York has 201.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 13:13
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:It seems that many people who moved here from small towns assume that crime is just part of life in the city and are ignorant to how much less crime there was in DC a decade ago.
It’s sad that D.C. residents have been beaten into submission by their politicians.
District Stockholm Syndrome(DSS)
Anonymous
08/24/2025 11:40
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
It seems that many people who moved here from small towns assume that crime is just part of life in the city and are ignorant to how much less crime there was in DC a decade ago.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 11:32
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
If DC really wanted to reduce violent crime these 500 people would already be in jail. Time’s up.
You cannot incarcerate your way out of the city’s crime problem. Full stop
I know that gets said, but in all seriousness, why not?
DP. The US has one of the highest rates of incarcerated people IN THE WORLD*. If incarceration worked, we should be one of the safest countries in the world. But we're not. Please explain how incarcerating more people would help DC.
The top ten countries with the highest incarceration rates per 100,000 population, based on the most recent available data:
El Salvador: 1,659
Cuba: 794
Rwanda: 637
Turkmenistan: 576
American Samoa: 538
United States: 531
Tonga: 516
Panama: 522
Guam: 475
Uruguay: 449
Source: Grok
How many prisoners in the US come from the other 9 countries you cite?
You're such a dumb**.
Anonymous
08/24/2025 11:17
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
When Mary Chen had social workers staffing Sedgwick Gardens, residents made only 2 contacts over 18 months. Now that building has seen a child murdered. Wrap around services is an expensive con by grifting “providers.”
Anonymous
08/24/2025 11:15
Subject: If feds really want to reduce crime in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If feds really want to reduce violent crime in DC (which I know they don't), one of their first steps should be support local law enforcement targeting the small number of individuals who have ties to the majority of violent crimes. This research in 2022 shows that about 500 people are causing 70 percent of violent crimes in the city. And of those 700, 200 are the worst offenders.
A Majority Of D.C. Killings Are Driven By Small Number Of People | WAMU https://share.google/AKRYHTJLhTJF61CGD
Let’s not overlook the fact these 500 are people!
They need, and have a right, to wrap-around services. That is the only way this issue gets solved.
I don’t disagree with your sentiment but no one has a right to wrap-around services.
Services are voluntary and few have any desire whatsoever to change. The mantra is a joke.