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spince t1_j5i3hch wrote

Reply to comment by flyswat88 in Streets on Columbia robbed, manager hurt this afternoon by NPRjunkieDC

>made it so the folks who are commiting these crimes able to continue to do so.

Can you cite the specific code provision? I'd be interested in seeing how this works because I'm having trouble finding the provision in the bill that won't go into effect for 3 years that does this for robberies

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[deleted] t1_j5igwrj wrote

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annang t1_j5iti9x wrote

Yeah, That passage you quoted has at least two lies in it. I wish people would read the bill before believing every talking point about it.

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[deleted] t1_j5jpusj wrote

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annang t1_j5jsqzc wrote

Here's an article with an actual analysis of what's in the bill, as opposed to just fearmongering about the fact that the bill changes the structure of sentencing so that sentences are calculated differently. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/washington-dc-crime-reform-sentencing-fox-news.html

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[deleted] t1_j5jxzoh wrote

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annang t1_j5jz04v wrote

Did you read the part about sentence stacking, which is currently not permissible? Or the part about the sentencing guidelines, which mean that the sentences being changed are sentences that no one is actually receiving under current law?

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SeeToTheThird t1_j5i4yxy wrote

There isn’t a cite, but they’d much rather repeat anti-reform talking points like a juvenile parrot so they won’t correct their behavior

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flyswat88 t1_j5i6g1i wrote

Enjoy getting robbed by the same people over and over again.

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SeeToTheThird t1_j5i6vjl wrote

Go back to silver spring

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LeoMarius t1_j5i9kq3 wrote

That’s what happened to old DC. Everyone with money moved out, leaving it a hellhole for decades.

Be careful what you wish for.

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mistersmiley318 t1_j5kk8gs wrote

That's a rather charitable way of describing white flight and systemic disinvestment.

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LeoMarius t1_j5ko0k8 wrote

Because the city turned toxic. Don't blame people for institutional problems.

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mistersmiley318 t1_j5kq8pc wrote

https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/discriminatory-housing-practices-in-the-district-a-brief-history/

I highly encourage you to read this. "The city turning toxic" is not the reason white residents left. Massive subsidies for suburban and segregated development (GI Bill, urban freeways, racial covenants) and resistance to desegregation in schools were the primary factors white residents left. The pattern of large sections of the tax base fleeing to the suburbs repeated itself all over which is why most American cities were faced with crippling budget shortfalls and racially motivated disinvestment in the 70s and 80s.

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MajesticBread9147 t1_j5ihxqu wrote

Everyone with money moved out? Then where's the corresponding rent decrease? Ask anybody who grew up in DC before the 90s and they'll tell you it was much less expensive.

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Obvious-Design8030 t1_j5ialdc wrote

Oh, old DC had a movement to reform it's criminal justice system based on a modern a understanding of criminology? All while most of old DC was not administered by DC residents.

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annang t1_j5itktg wrote

They can’t, because the claim is false.

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