Husker_Du

That's in there already, Agave.

yes, b/c it's about as basic and elementary a topic as there is.

i don't think you know the definition of 'pearl clutching'. it means 'faux outrage in an attempt to get others to sympathize.' that's not what i'm about. and it's not anger. it's me being utterly perplexed on why the concept of 'violent crime is terrible for the victims and makes society dangerous' is met with 'well, see, here's the thing' from wokesters on the left.

are you braindead? what do mandatory minimum sentences have to due with anything IF THEY'RE NOT PROSECUTING!!!??

so let's not bring red v. blue into it (even though the correlation is all up in your face - as in 'they literally ran on that platform' and 'cashless bail is now ubiquitous'. but anyway - answer the question is it a good thing for society (regardless of the state or politics) that less violent crime is being penalized?

it not only takes 5 minutes, it's on the news daily. apparently a good number of the posters on here have their heads in the clouds.

everything in that post is true. but let's, for one second just say that it's not, or that it's immaterial... are you saying that you agree with less % of violent crimes being prosecuted? b/c that's 1000% what's happening.

god, i hate that. one of the worst lines of all time. and inaccurate. the only people that use it are people that think they're smart. anyway - how am i the one clutching pearls? i'm clutching pearls b/c, quite literally rapists and murders and violent assault criminals walk the street and commit even more horrific crimes? you think that's pearl clutching or you think that perhaps those victims should have been served better? the real pearl clutching is from people like you that say 'but but but jails don't do anything' and then murmur something about shoplifting while yet again refusing to acknowledge that this applies to violent crimes. i could list, ad nauseam, case after case where someone was awaiting trial or recently released early from prison who repeatedly committed more violent crime. what in your beetle brain leads to conclude that violent, repeat offenders walking the streets is a good policy?

oh, ok. i stand corrected. homicides skyrocketed in 2019. then there were elections in 2020 where every lib proudly ran on a platform of bail reform and soft penalties. thereafter, with another gain in homicide rates, municipalities doubled their non-prosecution rates. sounds brilliant.

you realize with the mass migration to no cash bail that murder and rape suspects are walking the streets as they await trial? you do know that correct? no, i mean as in you have to be a full scale fucking moron to defend or deny what soft on crime policies are doing. and you deny because it's literally the platform Dems run on to get the sympathy vote from woke idiots like yourself. that's what i mean by partisan. you won't acknowledge what's plain to see b/c you voted that way and/or sympathized. and there's no way you could have made a mistake, right? so juvenile.

murderers and rapists walk free b/c of these policies and sentiments, but go ahead and be childish and partisan. truly sad things are happening, as can be seen/read/watched all over the media everyday. but you do you to score points.

you not acknowledging that crime soared precisely after the elections wherein people ran on soft crime and no cash bail is why we're having this conversation. your head is in the sand.

that would be a fair point had i not previously documented the exact same thing happening in every major city. the point is, this is an agenda item pushed by the left and DC is no different. this trope is so lame for so many reasons. first and foremost the virtue signaling sympathy for criminal and not the victim, who often has his/her life ended or ruined. in all facets of american life, the concept of personal accountability seems to be disintegrating.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/murder-homicide-rate#:~:text=U.S. murder%2Fhomicide rate for,a 5.99% decline from 2017.

Generally speaking, Plas. City after city is becoming softer on crime. The DA's openly talk about it. It's part of the left's agenda. So while every city is seeing lower prosecution numbers, and the people of DC themselves are complaining about it, you think there's no tie in there? you think DC's doubling of unprosecuted crimes in 1 year is just coincidental? or are you actually buying that 1 forensic lab being shut down is the real reason?

in a thread about major cities having businesses closing i linked article upon article of their crime surges. simultaneously, DA's are on record and prosecution % and no cash bail are demonstrably up. + All the DA's who Soros funded are a matter of public record. It's al plain to see. I don't care if it's the Left or the Right. i have no allegiance to either. But when facts are plain as day...

you're adorable.

Dave McCormick who is running for Governor in PA was captain of Army wrestling team

yes.

right. i've seen a lot of videos with people of DC complaining and voicing their outrage. the point of me posting that was not b/c i'm saying 'people like it;' it's to once again drive home the fact that this is the policy of democratic (soros-backed) D.A.'s in tons of major cities. how people fail to acknowledge / accept this is quite confusing.

what a shit show. we need term limits. for a multitude of reasons but in this context i mean that this type of crap arises from jockeying for position of power.

good topic. HC's have to wear a lot of hats so my list will be small. but gimme James Green (in the future) Brandon Slay Reece Humphrey Tony Ramos

what makes you say that?

wokeness really does make intelligent people stupid.