Anonymous
Post 11/26/2023 19:12     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:The Presidents granddaughter was almost car jacked today and Secret Service had to bust out shots. DC is a shitshow


Well, Mayor Bowser is in UAE and Qatar this week at the climate change conference (read shopping spree) and to promote tourism to Washington DC.
Anonymous
Post 11/26/2023 08:21     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:Almost 2 months ago, 4 men held guns to the head of a member of Congress and stole his car.

There have been no arrests.


It is shocking but there have been no hearings scheduled by Congress either. Oversight over DOJ has not happened yet.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2023 20:10     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
No sign of a course correction yet. We are less than a year past congress and a D president intervening re: the Council's attempts at further "reform."

Yet daily there are armed robberies and carjackings all over town, day and night. On Thanksgiving Day there was an armed robbery of a market in Glover Park. Today an armed robbery in a crowded Adams Morgan at lunchtime, broad daylight!
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2023 19:53     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
One of the most infuriating things about the current situation is that there were many cities on the west coast that were 5 years ahead of DC with these disastrous progressive policies. The writing was on the wall. Yet DC blew past all the flashing red lights and followed them all over the cliff. Other than maybe Pinto (barely), every elected ANC, Councilmember, and the mayor should be recalled.
Anonymous
Post 11/25/2023 16:25     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Almost 2 months ago, 4 men held guns to the head of a member of Congress and stole his car.

There have been no arrests.
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2023 08:27     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:Carjacking by the palisades rec center.

Crime for All!!

Thanks, Bowser!!


“Crime for all!”

Mission accomplished, Bowser!
Anonymous
Post 11/24/2023 07:46     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Carjacking by the palisades rec center.

Crime for All!!

Thanks, Bowser!!
Anonymous
Post 11/21/2023 21:13     Subject: Re:Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Carjackings in that area have continued, in this one last night a woman had her clothes removed looking for the car fob, pretty horrifying.

Anonymous
Post 11/18/2023 22:03     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:Have there been any arrests re: the Congressman's carjacking?


no
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2023 12:36     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Presidents granddaughter was almost car jacked today and Secret Service had to bust out shots. DC is a shitshow


Wait...she needed the protection of guns? Oh, no. I thought we were supposed to just give our cars to the poor, misunderstood, hungry guys who carjack.


Joe said to just get a shotgun (but his entire extended family gets to have SWAT protection).
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2023 08:11     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Anonymous wrote:The Presidents granddaughter was almost car jacked today and Secret Service had to bust out shots. DC is a shitshow


Wait...she needed the protection of guns? Oh, no. I thought we were supposed to just give our cars to the poor, misunderstood, hungry guys who carjack.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2023 04:12     Subject: Re:Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
I'm appalled and embarrassed for my city. I blame progressives. You know who you are and you did this to us.
Anonymous
Post 11/14/2023 01:56     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
The Presidents granddaughter was almost car jacked today and Secret Service had to bust out shots. DC is a shitshow
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2023 11:33     Subject: Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
Have there been any arrests re: the Congressman's carjacking?
Anonymous
Post 11/03/2023 06:36     Subject: Re:Congressman carjacked at gunpoint in Washington DC
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Anonymous wrote:Meant to say humane^

And it's odd to not send kids to a detention center. Only option means it's the option. If you don't like the option, improve it.

It’s not odd if it is generally understood to be an awful environment that puts kids at more risk.

For example, putting an impressionable, at-risk 15 year old robbery suspect in pre-trial detention with convicted murders who are in street gangs seems like it would not generate positive outcomes.

DC obviously needs to prioritize investment in better facilities and partner with service providers who can effectively operate those facilities.

And this is really an equity and justice issue and should be looked at that way. DC can spend all the money it wants on upstream interventions, however if it does not properly invest in high quality rehabilitation for youth offenders the city is condemning kids with mild to moderate behavioral issues to a lifetime of marginalization.

Juveniles are held in a separate detention facility from the jail, so no it’s not teeming with convicted murderers and gang members. It’s residents are no different than this violent 15 year old who was running the streets carjacking people at gunpoint.

Yes. Juveniles are held separately from the jail. The population of YSC includes convicted juvenile offenders. In DC, juvenile offenders can be held until the age of 21. Do you see where this is going?

The residents of the YSC are the most violent of youth offenders in the city. As a result, I can see how a judge would not want to send a robbery suspect there that is not accused of violent crimes.

When there are kids who they think need detention away from home but not at YSC, they use group home placements but it seems that there is not enough space and it is also an environment that can be difficult to control.

What is needed is a separate detention facility for violent and non-violent offenders so that you don’t intermingle killers with wayward teens. I am not sure why this is so complicated to understand but it looks like peoples racism frequently gets in the way.

Not entirely accurate. YSC houses kids that are pre-trial, pre-sentencing or temporarily awaiting placement at another facility. The kids already committed to DYRS until 21 who are being held securely are either at New Beginnings in Laurel or at an out of state residential facility. Your statement that robbery is not violent is ridiculous. But continue to make excuses, call people racists (why is that always the fallback, be more original), etc. This girl was not just a wayward teen, she belonged at YSC and the judge was trying to deflect the the heat she knew was coming for her by making the empty threat to hold DYRS in contempt for her own decision to release her home.


Then they need more detention facilities, or better run ones, or both. You can't have rehabilitation without a functional system to rehabilitate. It's not happening when you send a kid right back where they came from. This story would be a good investigation/illustrative of the whole failed arm of administering youth justice and rehabilitation services in DC. We are a tiny city--we should be able to run something well. Statehood, what a joke!