Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Get rid of Charles Allen too. He talks a good game, but sees too much nuance on the crime issue. He is allergic to taking action to protect constituents. Vote him out.
Charles Allen is the *candidate of choice* of powerful interest groups like the Felonies Guild, Carjackers Local 202 and the Vagrants Alliance. No way we'll get rid of him with that kind of backing.
Don't forget the deep pockets of DC Justice Lab!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Get rid of Charles Allen too. He talks a good game, but sees too much nuance on the crime issue. He is allergic to taking action to protect constituents. Vote him out.
Charles Allen is the *candidate of choice* of powerful interest groups like the Felonies Guild, Carjackers Local 202 and the Vagrants Alliance. No way we'll get rid of him with that kind of backing.
Anonymous wrote:Get rid of Charles Allen too. He talks a good game, but sees too much nuance on the crime issue. He is allergic to taking action to protect constituents. Vote him out.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If that's what you want then you should move to PG. It's not going to happen in DC because no one can even agree on why crime there is so out of control. PG has a youth curfew and prosecutes criminals though.
There are council members who don’t think crime is even a problem.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We are one bad mayor away from returning to the 80s
Wake up, we already have that mayor and a DC council full of left wing lunatics! Why do you think crime is skyrocketing.
Anonymous wrote:We are one bad mayor away from returning to the 80s
Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that the police were able to track down and arrest the teen who carjacked the FBI agent. Charged as an adult and held without bail.
So they can do it. Why don't they do that when us normal people get carjacked?
Anonymous wrote:Have been following for tangible steps about what we can actually do, and it seems like the only suggestion is vote George out. Is there really nothing else we can do? Should we be writing to people? To whom? Is it really a minority of constituents that want these criminals caught and stopped?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Have been following for tangible steps about what we can actually do, and it seems like the only suggestion is vote George out. Is there really nothing else we can do? Should we be writing to people? To whom? Is it really a minority of constituents that want these criminals caught and stopped?
I’m sure you could reach out to Lisa Gore’s campaign and ask how to help. I doubt it’s a minority of constituents that want something done on crime but JLG had the advantage of running in 2020 during the BLM/abolish the police trend and she capitalized on it. Plus her opponent was kind of a dud, but even so, the race was somewhat close. She could certainly be defeated by a strong candidate now that people are turning against her approach to crime.
I can't tell the difference between Gore and Lewis George from their campaign info. Seems like they both take a similar approach.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Bad guys need to: (1) get caught, and (2) go to jail for a long time. Period. End of story. We need to take our city back.
We simply cannot live with the carjackings, property crimes, shootings, and chaos with no consequences for the perpetrators.
Who in local politics can make this happen?
Doing what you propose in your subject line would result in many more African-American males behind bars.
And that is racist.
Full stop. Never gonna happen.
DC crime will get much, much worse before it gets better.
So prosecution of criminals is racist?
Fools !ike you are the problem.
Why I hate this argument as a person of color— it assumes Black people will inevitably commit crimes. Ergo, Blacks are criminals. That is more racist than enforcing laws against criminals, whatever their race may be.