I don’t know, folks. This mosquito keeps biting me and sucking my blood. I’ve thrown everything at the problem. I’ve tried reasoning with it. I’ve tried holding sessions to recruit other mosquitos to convince it to stop. And then they all bit me! I don’t know what to do here. Someone help me out.
According to D.C. police, 90 juveniles were shot so far this year, 14 being fatal. This compares to the 47 that were shot in all of 2021 with six being fatal. Armed juveniles are also carjacking residents more than ever before – 416 so far in 2022, which is 20% higher than in 2021.
Mayor Muriel Bowser was asked Monday what she is going to do differently in her next term to get a handle on these problems.
“So you ask me what are we doing differently and here’s the truth. Wherever I have seen spikes in gun violence, throughout my tenure from ANC, to the council, to mayor We’ve literally thrown everything at the problem. And we watch to see what works and we adjust as we go along.”
Arresting and locking them up works great.
But Mayor Bowser has “thrown everything at the problem” except arresting and locking up criminals.
Literally everything.
She previously launched programs including “Violence Interrupters” and “Building Blocks” to head off crime.
Also she shook a magic stick and prayed to the criminal justice reform gods. But they did not answer because they’re made up.
Still D.C. voters voted for it. And they should get it. Every last bit of it.
Later today the D.C. Council is set to cast a final vote on a monumental piece of legislation, a 450-page bill that would completely overhaul the city’s criminal laws… police and prosecutors saying the rewrite dangerously decreases penalties for some violent offenses.
But the most spirited pushback has come on the issue of lower penalties for certain offenses, ranging from robbery and burglary to carjacking and illegal possession of a handgun. “[It] sends the wrong message to our residents when we are using every resource in our government to drive down crime,” said Bowser late last month.
The argument has attracted some high-profile supporters. “Carjackings have soared the past two years — up 23% in 2022 so far. So the D.C. Council has decided to lower the penalty,” tweeted well-known D.C.-based commentator Andrew Sullivan earlier this month, referencing a lowering of the maximum penalty to 24 years from the current 40 years. “They really do want to send a signal that carjacking is no big deal.”
Not like that’s an issue in D.C.
ANC Commissioner Denise Krepp said carjackings in the MPD’s First District, where she lives, are up 550% in the past year. She particularly criticized the D.C. Council for passing a crime bill that she thinks will make matters worse, adding the Council has held no hearings on the current crime epidemic.
But maybe that’s because not enough City Council members have been hijacked.
“Clearly I was in fear for my life,” Nate Fleming a DC Council candidate told 7News. “I’m lucky to be alive.”
Last Saturday night he stopped at the King Food Mart at Nannie Helen Burroughs Avenue and I-295 and as he exited heading to his car, he saw a Red SUV with four masked men in it heading toward him. They had guns. He said he just threw his keys up. They took them and drove away in his BMW.
I have a modest proposal. Let’s make D.C. a state. And then auction it off to the highest bidder, build a wall around it and keep everyone who thinks that crime should be legal from leaving.
Then repeat the process with every urban area in America.
We’ve thrown everything else at the problem. Let’s give it a try.
Anybody who supports BLM is also supporting crime and terrorism.
BLM is a terrorist organization.
Their main goal is to let the criminals get away with their crimes and get some free stuff on top of that.
The vile and callous Dumb-o-crats have been coddling and enabling criminals for decades, so these D.C. Council proposals are nothing new. After all, these reprobates contend, criminal sociopaths “of color” can’t/shouldn’t be held responsible for their actions — racism, society, etc. are all to blame, instead. Notions of public safety and citizen safety aren’t an afterthought, for the vile Dumbs — they aren’t even a thought, at all.
Thus, law-abiding citizens are left to defend themselves from the violent predations of these sociopath thugs.
In most Democrat controlled polities, the Second Amendment is nullified. Hence citizens cannot defend themselves, making those cities free-fire zones.
The only ,mayor who fought crime well was Giulani-no other big city mayor came close
Except Mayor Tom Butt and Police Chief Chris Magnus in Richmond, California. Population 100,000 so maybe doesn’t qualify as a big city though.
As bad as she is, at least Bowser opposed some of the lowered penalties. So there’s that.
Bowser is still part of the problem, though. No Dumb-o-crat can ever be trusted on issues of crime and public safety. They are all far too steeped in “social justice” mantra and orthodoxies to ever be able to punish criminals harshly and with appropriate seriousness, preferring instead to treat them as alleged “victims.”
Recall that a few years ago, the D.C. City Council (emulating a similarly insane Dumb-o-crat proposal that was conceived in California, I believe) wanted to pay ex-convicts a monthly bribery stipend, in order to induce them to not commit crimes. I kid you not — this was essentially a self-directed extortion scheme in which D.C. taxpayers would bribe criminals to comport themselves with the laws and societal norms of behavior that every tax-paying, law-abiding citizen engages in, simply as a matter of course. This insanity did not pass, thankfully, but, that such idiocy was even proposed in the first place speaks to the insane lengths Dumb-o-crats will go to protect criminals from being held accountable for their predations.
Yeah, the scheme to pay convicts was conceived and implemented by the Progressives on the Richmond, Calif City Council. First city in the country with a Green Progressive mayor (2006-2015). Noone can imagine the damage the Progressives have done there, and how much pressure they put on the saner people there. The left is trying to implement that policy in other cities in USA also.
Thank you for the additional detail on that bribery scheme’s origins. The Dumb-o-crats are callously indifferent to citizens’ public safety concerns. Their attitude is totally indefensible and is utterly contemptible.
Thanks!
On a tangent, just to show how petty the vicious Progressives are, Richmond had an excellent city manager at the time. A new building for staff was being designed. He wanted to be able to open the windows in his office (generally there was good fresh air there coming off SF Bay). The Progressives refused to allow windows that could be opened in the building to spite him. He quit a year or two later. Best city manager ever, got the city
out of bankruptcy.
Oh, good one. Gives me a chance for my pet rant 🙂
In olden days, people had to confront evil more often and more directly in their lives, so the ancient scriptures are filled with stories about killing evil demons and such. Somehow we moderns got infected with the idea that all people are basically good.
We can thank old Jean-Jacques “Count the Spoons After He Leaves” Rousseau for that brilliant bit of idiocy. He infected Western thought with a great many bad things.
They need a real person who will lock up Criminal’s not play Drop the Hanky with them
Greenfield’s modest proposal is quite good. And a lot more palatable than Jonathan Swift’s.