Even if murder numbers have come down this year the trend post Covid has been negative. And From a coworker getting carjacked after work to a friend getting beat up outside a Walmart or Target it’s just scarier in DC.
you trust two personal anecdotes over statistics. got it.
violent crime in D.C. peaked in the mid-1990s and has since decreased by
62.5%... yet we are less safe today, somehow? maybe it's not the crime or the city that has changed...
Am completely in agreement with Trump in charging teenagers as adults for violent crime. You run around with your posse beating the shit out of people you deserve to do the time.
on this topic we need less emotion and more science & long-term vision, IMO.
teens aren't tried as adults
because they aren't adults. they don't (and can't) think like adults nor make decisions like adults. also, their rehabilitation needs and potential for change aren't the same as adults.
calls for trying kids and teens as adults are all too often a knee-jerk reaction by those least in a position to make a good call on the subject. i mean, why even have a codified justice system? let's use public outcry determine how the accused are treated and what kind of justice they are dealt, amirite?!?
