Anonymous wrote:Rep. Craig attacked by a repeat offender in February. The Paul staffer last month. Now this. How many high profile and senseless attacks do we need before people wake up?

NE DC really is a sht-hle is what I am concluding. I got roasted on here for saying this a while back, but I ended up at the PG County Mall for lunch and ubered back to NE DC. Despite the rep of “PG County” and that mall, it was actually perfectly nice and not at all sketchy. The worst places I saw as I ubered back were absolutely NE DC on Bladensburg.

Rep. Craig attacked by a repeat offender in February. The Paul staffer last month. Now this. How many high profile and senseless attacks do we need before people wake up?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so sad? But staying in that area was very dumb.

She was a young girl from Harrisonburg. I’m sure she had no idea and not a lot of money. Poor thing.

She was actually from arlington.

Originally, but living in Harrisonburg. There’s so much development and change in DC, I can see how family in Arlington wouldn’t be keeping track of which neighborhoods are relatively safe and which aren’t. The hotel website is misleading about the neighborhood at best

https://www.ivycityhotel.com/

OMG I would have booked this hotel.

Everyone should read TripAdvisor reviews before booking anything.

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Anonymous wrote:The accused was set free by a judge after another judge previously ruled that he posed a danger to the public and ordered him to remain in jail. He was wanted on two felony arrest warrants at the time of the incident:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-woman-killed-in-stabbing-inside-hotel-room-in-northeast-dc/3321310/

Judges who do things like this should be removed from the bench.
If nobody is held accountable for such poor decisions, things will never change.

DC Superior Court judges are federally appointed, not elected. Can't be voted out.

Elections have consequences. Deadly consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:The accused was set free by a judge after another judge previously ruled that he posed a danger to the public and ordered him to remain in jail. He was wanted on two felony arrest warrants at the time of the incident:

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/virginia-woman-killed-in-stabbing-inside-hotel-room-in-northeast-dc/3321310/

I'm so sick of this. Why are these sociopaths being released to harm others?

Because you voted for the people who let them loose?

Anonymous wrote:It’s so sad? But staying in that area was very dumb.

You should be safe in a freaking hotel. Way to blame the victim.

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Anonymous wrote:DC has zero control over the prosecutors, judges, or prisons that house these inmates. So those other cities you’ve listed have zero bearing on this case.

Once again, the DC Council has had oversight hearings on the USAO in the past, ones that actually had an impact on the actions of USAO. They have also demanded accountability for specific cases under the purview of the USAO before. No matter how many times people make the claim, it's simply untrue that there's nothing the Council can do. They've been active in the past when it's something they've actually cared about.

They don't care about most crime, clearly, unless it gives them an opportunity to grandstand or virtue signal. Otherwise, they do not care. I had forgotten about the Liu hearing. No papering began to tick up at the end of Obama's term and continued across Trump and Biden so she is not some paragon of prosecuting in any sphere. And the council claims crime is NOT a problem in DC. They have not signaled moving off that position.

FYI that I looked at the reviews for this hotel at hotels.com and they are clearly faking reviews - in between written reviews that describe a dingy, dangerous place there are reviews with little or no text that rate the place 10/10. I tried to leave a review but you need a paid for reservation through the site to do that — no doubt the hotel itself has a way of faking that requirement too.

In most cases establishments posting fake reviews of themselves is just an irritation, but in this case it could be risking lives. I wonder if there is a way to sue them

Bit more color on the release issue in DC

https://twitter.com/dccrimefacts/status/1643391809563795456

Anonymous wrote:DC has zero control over the prosecutors, judges, or prisons that house these inmates. So those other cities you’ve listed have zero bearing on this case.

Once again, the DC Council has had oversight hearings on the USAO in the past, ones that actually had an impact on the actions of USAO. They have also demanded accountability for specific cases under the purview of the USAO before. No matter how many times people make the claim, it's simply untrue that there's nothing the Council can do. They've been active in the past when it's something they've actually cared about.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of these murders committed by mentally disturbed individuals will it take for us to make some changes as a city? To actually elect people who have some different views?

Holy shit, when will you realize that the DC City Council has no oversight of adult criminals or the Bureau of Prisons? Neither the Mayor nor the Council nor the AG had any part in whether this guy was released, how and when he was released, etc.

In fact, the city very likely had NO IDEA this guy was out on the street.

And isn't that a problem? This doesn't happen in other parts of the country.

BECAUSE THEY ARE STATES AND CONTROL THEIR OWN COURT AND PRISON SYSTEMS.

I guess we can now rely on you for DC statehood?

That is just not true, it does happen in many cities. If your frame of reference is the 90s, things have changed quite a bit.

Policies like Equity in Action and changes in philosophy toward crime and in the types of prosecutors that are backed in running for office have shifted things in this direction in many places. See LA, SF, Minneapolis, Chicago, etc, etc.

DC has zero control over the prosecutors, judges, or prisons that house these inmates. So those other cities you’ve listed have zero bearing on this case.

The idea that these types of people are not released if only they are in a STATE is simply not true. It happens in MANY places, with the examples above just that. Your framing is naive, simplistic, agenda driven and provides no useful insight into safety.

Understanding the trends in criminal justice and not having simplistic slogans or ideas that this is somehow UNIQUE to DC has a lot to do with understanding this case, as does understanding the structure and players in the DC criminal justice space to some extent.

But the patterns and dynamics and philosophies and trends are NOT unique to DC. Outside of DC you cannot rest assured that NO dangerous people are around that have been released sooner than is optimal for public safety. The issue of housing homeless and newly released prisoners in hotels and apartment buildings (even nice ones the vouchers are above market rate) is ALSO not unique to DC. Read reviews before booking and leave if you feeel unsafe in a hotel. If dangerous people are moved into your apartment building, increase your security efforts to the extent you can and move out.

There was a recent case in NoVA of an elderly woman attacked at a warehouse grocery store. The man who knocked her down and stole her van had 36 bench warrants, in VA. There was a woman shot recently at Costco in Wheaton, the assailant attempted to carjack several vehicles, then mounted a home invasion nearby. He had records in MD and DC. The guy who just stabbed the Senate staffer on H St had just been released from federal prison, he had a record in DC and MD. NONE of those examples have anything to do with a DC Superior Court judge releasing someone from DC jail but from a victim and public safety standpoint, pretty violent.

Stop with the agendas to somehow use this woman's tragic death to promote statehood. It's dumb and it's gross.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of these murders committed by mentally disturbed individuals will it take for us to make some changes as a city? To actually elect people who have some different views?

Holy shit, when will you realize that the DC City Council has no oversight of adult criminals or the Bureau of Prisons? Neither the Mayor nor the Council nor the AG had any part in whether this guy was released, how and when he was released, etc.

In fact, the city very likely had NO IDEA this guy was out on the street.

And isn't that a problem? This doesn't happen in other parts of the country.

BECAUSE THEY ARE STATES AND CONTROL THEIR OWN COURT AND PRISON SYSTEMS.

I guess we can now rely on you for DC statehood?

That is just not true, it does happen in many cities. If your frame of reference is the 90s, things have changed quite a bit.

Policies like Equity in Action and changes in philosophy toward crime and in the types of prosecutors that are backed in running for office have shifted things in this direction in many places. See LA, SF, Minneapolis, Chicago, etc, etc.

DC has zero control over the prosecutors, judges, or prisons that house these inmates. So those other cities you’ve listed have zero bearing on this case.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so sad? But staying in that area was very dumb.

She was a young girl from Harrisonburg. I’m sure she had no idea and not a lot of money. Poor thing.

She was actually from arlington.

Originally, but living in Harrisonburg. There’s so much development and change in DC, I can see how family in Arlington wouldn’t be keeping track of which neighborhoods are relatively safe and which aren’t. The hotel website is misleading about the neighborhood at best

https://www.ivycityhotel.com/

OMG I would have booked this hotel.

Not if you read the reviews that described another recent stabbing homicide and doors that did not lock properly.

Anonymous wrote:From WaPo:

"Sydnor was accused of approaching a woman sitting in her car in Southeast Washington in October — brandishing a firearm and demanding that she exit the vehicle and give him her keys and cellphone, according to charging documents. He later pleaded guilty to attempted robbery, a reduction from his initial charge of armed robbery.

In January, prosecutors agreed to Sydnor’s release from jail before sentencing, though he was subject to high-intensity supervision. The U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. declined to explain that decision — with a spokesperson saying Monday that they cannot comment on pending litigation. Sydnor’s attorney in the case declined to comment."

And this is Charles Allen and Matt Frumin's fault?

There are many different people at fault.

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Anonymous wrote:How many of these murders committed by mentally disturbed individuals will it take for us to make some changes as a city? To actually elect people who have some different views?

Holy shit, when will you realize that the DC City Council has no oversight of adult criminals or the Bureau of Prisons? Neither the Mayor nor the Council nor the AG had any part in whether this guy was released, how and when he was released, etc.

In fact, the city very likely had NO IDEA this guy was out on the street.

And isn't that a problem? This doesn't happen in other parts of the country.

BECAUSE THEY ARE STATES AND CONTROL THEIR OWN COURT AND PRISON SYSTEMS.

I guess we can now rely on you for DC statehood?

That is just not true, it does happen in many cities. If your frame of reference is the 90s, things have changed quite a bit.

Policies like Equity in Action and changes in philosophy toward crime and in the types of prosecutors that are backed in running for office have shifted things in this direction in many places. See LA, SF, Minneapolis, Chicago, etc, etc.