Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I don't agree with the OP, we need to dig deeper into a lot of these youth to see how we can support them as a society. The recurring same policies and tactics are no longer working and therefore we cannot keep asking why longer-harsher prison sentences are not working. We need to work on a new revolutionary idea in criminal enforcement. Broken children become broken adults when coupled with generational trauma.

There is enough money in DC, but not enough social workers.


No, that’s not it. Harsh sentences absolutely do work, they just have to be consistently enforced. Have you been in Singapore?
Of course, it should be a multi-pronged approach. Consistent enforcement is just one aspect, and that must include the adults around these kids.

I heard a social worker on the radio this morning lamenting that he’s visited the kids’ homes who are repeatedly stealing cars and engaging in criminal activities.
His complaint: There were drugs in the home, and no food in the fridge.

To this I would say that these youths then should be removed from these environments that are not homes.
More social workers are not going to make a difference in these situations. These kids are already eligible for free food, free healthcare, and free education.
Support systems that kids in other countries could only dream of! Yet it does not help at all, it has no positive impact. Why is that?

There are no "wrap around services" that are going to improve the lives of kids who live in the homes described above. That is a lie promoted by current child welfare policies and the progressive left. There are lots of poor people whose kids do NOT commit crimes. Those are the families for whom increased social services can make a difference. But the kids who do commit crimes, and who live in the situations described above, are only going to be helped if they are removed and put in a humane reform school environment that gives equal parts structure AND nurture.

Anonymous wrote:Chilling details, the man shot near the convention center, in critical condition, was waiting in a car to pick his wife up from work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/01/30/carjacking-dc-man-killed/

Describing the first shooting scene, near Mount Vernon Square, a woman who walked by moments after the attack, still in daylight, said she saw the victim, in a dress shirt and sweater, sprawled on the pavement with one foot still in the passenger’s side of a car. His right hand was twitching as blood pooled around his head.

The witness, Yolanda Douglas, 39, said a woman ran out of a K Street office building, screaming, “Oh, my God, that’s my husband.” Douglas said the woman ran toward her husband and grabbed his hand. “What happened?” she asked, but he did not respond.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't agree with the OP, we need to dig deeper into a lot of these youth to see how we can support them as a society. The recurring same policies and tactics are no longer working and therefore we cannot keep asking why longer-harsher prison sentences are not working. We need to work on a new revolutionary idea in criminal enforcement. Broken children become broken adults when coupled with generational trauma.

There is enough money in DC, but not enough social workers.

No, that’s not it. Harsh sentences absolutely do work, they just have to be consistently enforced. Have you been in Singapore?
Of course, it should be a multi-pronged approach. Consistent enforcement is just one aspect, and that must include the adults around these kids.

I heard a social worker on the radio this morning lamenting that he’s visited the kids’ homes who are repeatedly stealing cars and engaging in criminal activities.
His complaint: There were drugs in the home, and no food in the fridge.

Children are stealing because they are hungry and in need, in order to be removed we need more social workers and we need to pay social workers well. This is truly tragic. I cannot imagine what is like for a starving child to need to commit crime in order to survive. Yes, we need wrap around services, it seems like the parents of these children are on drugs. Hence, why we have kids out in the streets targeting people. Drugged out parents are trying to escape some problem. This is really sad.

What is the solution you propose then, PP? Removal of a generation as Canada did with native children? Forced sterilization? The parents of these kids are the grandchildren of the crack babies. Generations of drug exposure, minimal at best parenting in many cases, no one working in a legit job, no one emotionally regulated is the reality for many. Some are being raised by a struggling young grandparent. So, what do you propose now? Having that social worker visit wasn't a magic wand, was it. The kids have housing, EBT, free metro cards, free school, free healthcare. They may not have functional adults in their lives but after providing the basics society doesn't have a lot of appealing cards to play.