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Ever since the Left embraced the ‘Defund the Police’ motto and the pro-crime BLM message of a war on police, too many Republicans and conservatives fundamentally misunderstood the problem.
The police haven’t really been ‘defunded’ in most places. The real problem was that police were intimidated into not doing their jobs. The Trump administration has begun tackling that by eliminating some of the consent/oversight put into place by the Obama/Biden administrations on police departments that keep them from being able to do their jobs.
But the police responding to calls or maintaining patrols is only half of what it takes to stop crime. And less than half.
The bigger problem is a functional justice system.
Take New York, which has tons of cops but no functioning justice system once bail was eliminated, or California, which effectively legalized shoplifting and freed tens of thousands of criminals on COVID pretexts.
The police can arrest someone, but if the criminal isn’t going to prison, then it’s just a revolving door system.
President Trump responded to the crisis in D.C., including a carjacking of a DOGE staffer, by sending feds to enforce the law, but while the D.C. force isn’t massive, it’s big enough for what the city needs.
The problem is the ‘justice’ system.
The D.C. City Council began legalizing carjacking a few years ago, they overrode Mayor Bowser’s veto, explicit warnings from the city’s top prosecutor and at that point, a Republican congress and Biden teamed up to tell D.C. to stop it.
Carjackings are part of the culture in D.C. And they’ve figured out how to use kids to get around real penalties.
Carjackings rose around 500% in Washington D.C. A 12-year-old was arrested for four armed carjackings in an hour in Washington D.C. The criminal justice reform movement has fought against prosecuting teenagers, even those who commit murder, as adults. And, indeed, the two teen girls who killed an Uber driver in D.C. reportedly reached a plea deal
Teen carjackers assault drivers while fearlessly brandishing guns like it’s hunting season because they know the police won’t shoot them and district attorneys won’t lock them up.
While criminal justice reformers claimed that trying teens as adults ‘criminalized’ children, it dissuaded teens and, more importantly, the organized gangs using them as pawns. The decriminalization of teenage crimes led to a boom in teens being recruited by organized crime.
What do you do with that?
You have to deal with the culture and with the organized crime operating behind some of this. And you absolutely have to bring back real penalties.
Will those arrested by the FBI face federal prosecution? Even if so, the feds only have so much spare capacity to enforce the laws that D.C. isn’t enforcing. It’ll take a wholesale takeover of D.C. to make sure that not just the police, but more importantly, the prosecutions work, the judges do their job and the prisons are full.
The New Testament tells me not to judge and to turn the other cheek. My hero is Jesus and he died for sinners and criminals.
I’ll follow my hero Jesus and die for criminals and sinners and go to Heaven.
I am assuming from your post you are “born from above” – however, you need a good Bible scholar teacher.
Turn the other cheek doesn’t mean to be fodder for criminals
Criminals need to be punished
Jesus came to fulfill the law – that are the laws in the Old Testament
THX 1138:
I’ll take you’re comment as mockery and trolling the religious zealots. Otherwise, you’re insane which I doubt.
“Turn the other cheek” doesn’t mean what you think it does. It means you turn the other cheek so the assailant has to hit you as the man you are instead of slapping you like a bitch.
Jesus justifies violence quite a few times in the Bible. If you were to bother to read the Gospels you natter on about, you’d know that.
There’s an element in post-modern society that prefers the law of the jungle to the rule of law. Civil society as a minimum security lock-up where the most violent run the show has a definite appeal to life’s losers. They’re like adolescents who lost the ball game but vow to win the ensuing brawl. Pure animal passion bypasses the brain. It’s the stuff that mobs are made of. Democ-rats intend to ride this urban beast to totalitarian power. That’s a fool’s errand. The rest of us deserve better.
Excellent points. The left wants to return to the law of the Jungle.
Algorithmic Analyst:
That’s not necessarily a bad thing. We can apply the laws of the jungle to deal with the left. Never forget that the strong survive, the weak perish. Leftists and that ilk are by inherently weak by nature. Without modern society and the rule of law, their kind would be extinct.
Yes, with their foot soldiers. Pussies. The vast majority of them don’t have the balls for it. Neither do the foot soldiers quite frankly. They only feel brave in overwhelming numbers and when they know the police have been ordered to accept the abuse in big blue cities. You’ll notice they never pull that shit in red areas.
What makes me sick is when mayors and their police chiefs order their own cops to be targets. If they want the rioters to go unpunished, don’t deploy the cops at all.
New York(City)and California(Where I live)our leaders are still the biggest bunch of scoundrels and bottom feeding scum suckers ever
This article is like a travel advisory for Washington, DC – no wonder President Trump is thinking to deploy the National Guard in DC
He did it yesterday (the 11th) as you doubtlessly know by now. And cadres of extra cops.
Yeah, when the homicide rate got over 50 per 100,000 annually, we brought in the CHP to help. But the local police didn’t like it. And they didn’t need it, the real problem was the City Council.
Where was that? LA?
There’s a plan to reduce the “prosecutable” age to 14 – might want to make it 10!! Better yet, make it SIX years old and scare the hell out of the little ones before they get too “experienced”!!
Not only are perps “of color” committing the vast majority of violent crimes in D.C., black residents also comprise the bulk of homicide victims.
Funny how the vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats won’t talk about either fact.
Take a gander at the number of victims in unsolved homicide cases — it’s astounding:
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/unsolved-homicides
As per usual, GOP adults must step in, to clean up the stinking doo-doo left behind by inept, criminal-coddling and otherwise derelict Dhimmi-crat toddlers.
I was under the impression that ALL the perps are black.
“The bigger problem is a functional justice system.” Yes, a wholesale takeover of DC is desperately needed. Newly installed city AG Jeanine Pirro said the same thing at President Trump’s announcement yesterday. By weird coincidence Chris Salcedo is playing a partial recording of her address yesterday right now. One of the things she said, if I remember correctly, was “”a teen shoots somebody in the chest on a bus. Attempted murder? I convict them and the judge gives them probation and says they need to go to college.”
Boy do I wish she were the federal AG rather than Pam Bondi. Nothing against Bondi but she isn’t nearly aggressive enough. Pirro would’ve spent the last 6 months ripping criminal politicians and judges new assholes. I used to watch her show on Fox News before I ditched cable five and a half years ago and she’s bad ass.
President Trump needs to get the Republicants in Congress to change the laws and figure out a way to get rid of left-wing judges. They’re worse than the street criminals.
Something tells me that the District of Corruption is going to have far fewer car-jackings and muggings for as long as Trump has the National guard and cadres of cops there.
If I were a cop in DC, I would go out of my way to blow away punk kid car-jackers
A whooole bunch of arrests have been made between yesterday and the long White House press conference which ended 15 minutes ago. Serious ones too, including murder.