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Anonymous wrote:DC is out of control, because this is what happens when you basically legalize crime by being soft on punishment and enforcement for social justice. DC reaping what it has sown.

An idiot who gets her car stolen because she left it running and unlock is not a city out of control.

You are a victim blamer. A woman is raped it is her fault for being provocative or smart. Yup...you are in touch.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC is out of control, because this is what happens when you basically legalize crime by being soft on punishment and enforcement for social justice. DC reaping what it has sown.

An idiot who gets her car stolen because she left it running and unlock is not a city out of control.

Anonymous wrote:DC is out of control, because this is what happens when you basically legalize crime by being soft on punishment and enforcement for social justice. DC reaping what it has sown.

Anonymous wrote:DC is out of control, because this is what happens when you basically legalize crime by being soft on punishment and enforcement for social justice. DC reaping what it has sown.

Anonymous wrote:Obviously they pull this trick after every freeze. Hundreds of cars are started and then the owner walks away for ice to melt.

Get a car with remote start. This isn’t brain surgery.

As of Friday, the city had recorded 3,137 auto thefts this year, many of them jump-ins, a 49 percent increase over the same period in 2019. What’s more disturbing is the 141 percent rise in carjackings (a separate category from auto thefts), with 328 through mid-December, up from 136 in the same span last year.

Every police precinct, encompassing rich and poor neighborhoods alike, has experienced an increase in carjackings, notably the high-crime Seventh District in far Southeast Washington, where this year’s 84 carjackings represent a 250 percent spike. In the Second District, covering affluent parts of Northwest Washington, the total has inched from eight to nine.

Anonymous wrote:Is “BOLO” now a thing? Who are we BOLOing for? A description would be helpful.

Anonymous wrote:In MD it's illegal to leave your car running while unattended, to cut down on auto theft. Not sure about DC. Why do people even do this? Is it so much effort to start your car again once you return?

Anonymous wrote:I live in Adams Morgan. If I leave anything on my front porch, it gets stolen. Does that mean that I do not have the right to leave things on my front porch?

I have given up buying nice porch furniture. Our bikes in the summer are all chained together and then to the porch, because the one night we don't lock them up, they will all be stolen.

However, I do not for a minute buy the argument that this theft is my fault. Do I know better now, yes. But is it my fault?

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Anonymous wrote:This hot take of "Mary deserved" to get her car stolen has got to stop. Who deserves to have a crime committed against them? No matter what your personal actions were that led to the crime. It is still a crime.

When an AU student gets murdered for wearing a Helly Hansen jacket on a metro platform, do we yell at them for deserving it? How about if a young man is killed for pumping gas late at night a block away? Did he deserve it? Do we really still live in the era of she dressed like she was asking for it?

Come on DC. We are smarter than this...aren't we?

If they’d jimmied the door and hot wired the car, it’s not on her. But that’s not what happened. This is completely on her. Apparently “we” aren’t smarter than this...are we?

Anonymous wrote:Mary Che's message is infuriating. is like the family that, 9 month into the pandemic, has a big party celebration and a few days later, gasping for air at the hospital, tells you in a video to be careful, social distance and weak a mark. yes you f-ing idiot I know there is a pandemic and I have been home since March and wear a mask when I have to go out.

this is the same. the lady left her car running with the keys inside to go inside a store. I don't need her to tell me that's a bad idea and that's why I have never done it.

on a side note, what she did was not only stupid but really bad. she left her car on a lane of a major road in DC where there is no parking/stopping at any time. it is also the bus lane. so many times I was driving down in traffic and suddenly cars or the bus on the right lane need to merge into the next lane because some idiot left the car parked or stopped for a coffee or something. people used to do that also at the Starbuck up the street at CT and Livingston. just park your stupid car in a regular parking place and don't be an a$$hole