Anonymous
11/12/2023 11:24
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC needs a Republican mayor
Hmm..
Oh right, no we don't. We just need Congress to stop dipping their toes into our city's policies and overriding things like... an anti gun bill, for instance.
You mean like this crime bill?
Congress overturns D.C. crime bill with President Biden's help
The Democratic-held Senate approved a GOP-led resolution that will overrule the liberal Washington, D.C., city council's rewrite of the criminal code for the nation's capital.
At issue in what was a sweeping but otherwise noncontroversial effort to overhaul D.C.'s criminal statutes are provisions to reduce the maximum penalties for crimes like armed carjacking from 40 years down to 24, which supporters argue is in line with the actual sentences handed down in court in recent years.
There was also objection to a provision to expanding the right to jury trials for certain criminal misdemeanor offenses, which critics say would overload a taxed D.C. court system and result in prosecutors dropping more cases.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161902691/d-c-crime-bill-biden-overturn#:~:text=Congress%20overturns%20D.C.%20crime%20bill%20with%20President%20Biden%27s%20help%20%3A%20NPR&text=Congress%20overturns%20D.C.%20crime%20bill%20with%20President%20Biden%27s%20help%20The,code%20for%20the%20nation%27s%20capital.
That bill would have right sized sentencing guidelines which would have increased the efficency of the court system, so yes. Like that bill.
Anonymous
11/12/2023 11:23
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC needs a Republican mayor
Hmm..
Oh right, no we don't. We just need Congress to stop dipping their toes into our city's policies and overriding things like... an anti gun bill, for instance.
You mean like this crime bill?
Congress overturns D.C. crime bill with President Biden's help
The Democratic-held Senate approved a GOP-led resolution that will overrule the liberal Washington, D.C., city council's rewrite of the criminal code for the nation's capital.
At issue in what was a sweeping but otherwise noncontroversial effort to overhaul D.C.'s criminal statutes are provisions to reduce the maximum penalties for crimes like armed carjacking from 40 years down to 24, which supporters argue is in line with the actual sentences handed down in court in recent years.
There was also objection to a provision to expanding the right to jury trials for certain criminal misdemeanor offenses, which critics say would overload a taxed D.C. court system and result in prosecutors dropping more cases.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161902691/d-c-crime-bill-biden-overturn#:~:text=Congress%20overturns%20D.C.%20crime%20bill%20with%20President%20Biden%27s%20help%20%3A%20NPR&text=Congress%20overturns%20D.C.%20crime%20bill%20with%20President%20Biden%27s%20help%20The,code%20for%20the%20nation%27s%20capital.
Anonymous
11/12/2023 11:08
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:DC needs a Republican mayor
Hmm..
Oh right, no we don't. We just need Congress to stop dipping their toes into our city's policies and overriding things like... an anti gun bill, for instance.
Anonymous
11/12/2023 01:20
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
DC needs a Republican mayor
Anonymous
11/11/2023 14:05
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
DC liberals are living to Arlington. Crime is great for a slow Arlingyon housing market.
Anonymous
11/11/2023 08:15
Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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11/10/2023 22:14
Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous
11/10/2023 21:32
Subject: Re:In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
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11/10/2023 16:39
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:All by design.
Explain please.
Anonymous
11/10/2023 16:36
Subject: In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DC crimes are not prosecuted. They declined to prosecute 67% of local arrests. Philly was only 4% to give an example
DC is allowing crime to happen and not chosing to prosecute it they are eventually asking for it and voters are supporting it
18.2% are cases in which a victim does not want to assist in the prosecution. According to Graves many of those are low level cases. He offered that one such group of cases is minor domestic violence in which D.C.’s “mandatory arrest” policy mandates police arrest someone.
13.9% are cases in which there is insufficient evidence.
7.2% are not prosecuted due to prosecutorial discretion.
2.9% are declined when prosecutors determine there is an affirmative defense such as self-defense.
- WAPO
DC is not particularly different from other cities, this doesn't explain why DCs prosecution rate is so low relative to cities that also experience urban crime and likely have the same issues.