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Anonymous wrote:Stupids do stupid things. Let’s See how life without police goes.

Based on the current crime/murder rate I'd say life with the MPD isn't that great anyways.

True but it can and will get worse. Imagine that.

With appropriate social programs it can and will get better. Imagine that.

You don’t think DC has thrown money at the issue?

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Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

honest question, I support the police, but most of the time they come after the incident happen...

That really isn't true though. That's when you see them or hear about them. Every interdicted gun they pull off the street has possibly prevented a shooting/murder.

We can do a lot better than "possibly prevent" by funding social programs that reduce poverty.

And how many lives are you willing to lose until change kicks in? It's not like it's overnight. It will take a generation.

I think you should learn more about the impact that violence interrupters can have. Sure, it's not perfect, but they pulled off a truce between two crews in SE that has lasted a remarkably long time. It's more than MPD could do.

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Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

honest question, I support the police, but most of the time they come after the incident happen...

That really isn't true though. That's when you see them or hear about them. Every interdicted gun they pull off the street has possibly prevented a shooting/murder.

We can do a lot better than "possibly prevent" by funding social programs that reduce poverty.

And how many lives are you willing to lose until change kicks in? It's not like it's overnight. It will take a generation.

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Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

honest question, I support the police, but most of the time they come after the incident happen...

That really isn't true though. That's when you see them or hear about them. Every interdicted gun they pull off the street has possibly prevented a shooting/murder.

We can do a lot better than "possibly prevent" by funding social programs that reduce poverty.

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Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

honest question, I support the police, but most of the time they come after the incident happen...

That really isn't true though. That's when you see them or hear about them. Every interdicted gun they pull off the street has possibly prevented a shooting/murder.

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Anonymous wrote:Any word on what they plan to do with the $15 million? Developer giveaways?

Anyone?

Cut police force in NW. hire more crime or violence interrupters. If every other young person in SE and NE is hired by police, the crime will be down.

What a dumb comment.

If by Northwest you mean WOTP then that would accomplish almost nothing as police officers are not deployed based on population or geography but crime rates and with WOTP being extremely safe it has very light police staffing.

Of course actual NW DC is everything north of the mall and west of N. Capital street so that includes a bunch of neighborhoods that in fact need a lot of policing to deal with both tricky neighborhoods and traffic issues.

FWIW the SE quadrant already has a disproportionate share of MPDs staffing.

So your solution is to just hire everyone in SE & NE to work for the police - how exactly would that work and how would that be paid for?

Any politician that stands up and says he/he wants to defund the police is either stupid or lying to you.

I don't think they actually enacted the $15 million cut because it would be all over the news.

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Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

Police here don't stop shootings/ crime in any way. They respond to calls. Ask any current MPD officer. More opportunities and resources in communities do.

New York City in the 80s?????

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Anonymous wrote:Any word on what they plan to do with the $15 million? Developer giveaways?

Anyone?

Cut police force in NW. hire more crime or violence interrupters. If every other young person in SE and NE is hired by police, the crime will be down.

“Bail disruptor” is apparently supposed to be a real job. You know, if you didn’t succeed in killing your girlfriend, you quickly get out of jail to finish the job!

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Anonymous wrote:Any word on what they plan to do with the $15 million? Developer giveaways?

Anyone?

Cut police force in NW. hire more crime or violence interrupters. If every other young person in SE and NE is hired by police, the crime will be down.

Anonymous wrote:Any word on what they plan to do with the $15 million? Developer giveaways?

Anyone?

Anonymous wrote:That’ll stop all these shootings, as well as the car break-ins and other nuisance crimes.

Bravo, DC.

honest question, I support the police, but most of the time they come after the incident happen...

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But the living conditions are much different in those two environments, due to density.

And, there is a huge push now among Dems to call for greater density and an end to single family zoning.

Maybe we could try a mix with greater density, significantly reduced poverty, and while we're at it, maybe -no- definitely cut the systemic racism.

Let’s start with vouchers so that poor black kids aren’t trapped in failing schools.

The vouchers don't actually help. The schools aren't necessarily the problem if you don't work on the rest of the systemic racism.

Send a kid to a shitty private school but still lock up his dad for a minor marijuana offense, stop and frisk him repeatedly, discriminate against him when he applies for jobs...

So don’t actually do anything to change the system because there will still be individual racists.

Typical.

Exactly the opposite. Solve the systemic issues and then the individual racists won't matter.

Allowing parents more choices is a systemic change.

Keeping black and brown poor children trapped in a failing school system until every racist can be identified and reformed is just the usual "pretend to care while actively blocking concrete change".

This is a parents board. We know better. Shuffling the deck chairs isn't the issue.

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