Same. Transplants have been the only people willing to put in any effort for social interactions or consistent friendships.

I urge every DC resident to read that article so they understand why this is happening. Young violent criminals plainly state that they keep carrying guns and committing crimes because they know there are no consequences.

I wish they’d update it with a more recent study. Here’s another article interviewing low income DC residents on how unfettered gun violence terrorizes their communities: Residents in NE Washington trapped by gunfire.

When it was first conceived and piloted in other cities, it was never supposed to apply to violent crimes. It was supposed to reduce the devastating lifelong impacts of imprisonment on young people making bad decisions with non-violent crimes.

DC took the YRA a step further and applied it to violent criminals, ensuring that there are no real consequences for gun crimes and violence.

That’s the funny thing about “progressives” who support gun laws: they refuse to accept that ENFORCING gun laws is part of the equation and that this includes punishment for criminals using illegal guns and committing crimes with guns.

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Good thing Maryland creates consequences for violent criminals.

Just a reminder that DC’s Youth Rehabilitation Act allows for any violent criminal age 25 or younger to face little to no jail time and that many individuals diverted from jail went on to victimize more people.

Just a reminder that there is zero valid evidence violence interrupters have any affect on reducing gun violence in DC.

Imagine how incompetent their parents are

Many people are poor. Only a tiny fraction of a percent of poor people commit repeat violent crimes.

The young men who harass, assault, carjack, etc. do it because it is learned behavior with few to no consequences. Their parents are neglectful or incompetent, their peers, friend groups, and small subculture glorify and celebrate this behavior. How do you change the beliefs these young men have, how do you fix willfully incompetent parents?

DC launched a program to identify people at high-risk of committing or being targeted by gun violence using evidence-backed and data-backed approaches. A majority of gun violence is committed by a small social network of men who generally know each other. This program found most high-risk men (eg, had a history of carrying guns, committing violent crime, or living with men who do so) didn’t want to be identified or offered job training assistance, mental health services or diversionary support. How does a government fix that? I don’t know.

“Society” as an abstract undefinable force a deflection from the immediate contributors to these young men’s behavior: their parents, families, peers, friends, social groups, and the subculture they choose to inhabit.

What part of “the government” is responsible for changing the way parents parent and adjusting individuals’ agency and decision making that normalizes gun violence?

> learned it from parents, friends, peers, or violent criminals he sees in the media and has been taught to respect and mimic.

Were you not capable of reading a list of people who are responsible for influencing the kid's behavior? Or did you deliberately decide to ignore it?

He learned it from parents, friends, peers, or violent criminals he sees in the media and has been taught to respect and mimic.

99% of people in society aren’t violent carjackers.

Why is it the failure of the government to convince young men that not shooting and killing people is bad? 99% of citizens never shoot anybody. Why not their parents? Families? Peers? Communities?

Hello, internet stranger obsessed with policing what topics people are allowed to post about.

Does this upset you?

Who cares? Young teenagers victimizing multiple people with violent carjackings is something residents probably want to know about.

There is no abstract socioeconomic circumstance that forces a teenager to commit multiple violent carjackings. It is learned behavior.

I’m satirizing fake progressives like Brianne Nadeau and Janeese Lewis George who oppose criminal justice system and claim that all violent criminals are really just victims.

Figure out how to fix incompetent parents and how to eradicate a localized subculture that is perpetuated among a small number of young men who glorify and normalize gun violence as a way to prove their status among peers and to settle petty feuds.

One policy isn’t going to do it. DC launched a program to identify people at high-risk of committing or being targeted by gun violence using evidence-backed and data-backed approaches. A majority of gun violence is committed by a small social network of men who generally know each other. This program found most high-risk men (eg, had a history of carrying guns, committing violent crime, or living with men who do so) didn’t want to be identified or offered job training assistance, mental health services or diversionary support. How does a government fix that? I don’t know.

You’re making the false assumption that these violent criminals have the capacity to think about consequences of their impulsive braindead behavior

Jail doesn’t have to be a deterrent, it should lock away uncivilized violent people who can’t function in society.

He was raised in a subculture that justifies shooting somebody for insulting you

The Nation’s Capital legalizes and minimizes criminal behavior.

Structural oppression forced him to murder this man, he can’t be hell fully responsible