Not sure who downvoted you but this was a good nugget of info.

Def think they should be grilled but if the topic of the USAO and DC courts doesn’t come up then it’s pointless. More importantly, those with say in congress need to hammer out what changes they would like to see that will satisfy them as a lot of the RCCA is cleaning up language.

I don’t recall the details but I thought I just saw an article about the house budget proposes across the board cuts to the USAO offices. That is the opposite direction we need to be going.

I know there was that clusterfuck with the dc crime lab. I’m surprised DC / MD / VA aren’t pooling their resources for some of these tools / labs that all the departments rely on.

Is there much cooperation and communication on this stuff between all the jurisdictions? Seems like that would be helpful but I have no clue.

My wording was a little confusing. I’ve seen other people corroborate that is the same people just doing the same shit over and over and getting released. So she clearly knows the problem. Our elected AG is responsible for juvenile punishment and I believe the council sets sentencing standards for both juveniles and adults.

Council is also responsible for funding priorities. People keep saying we need non police responses and other services for these kids, but we have them; a million different programs being funded inside and outside the school system targeted towards this. I’m sure those programs catch layers of these kids from getting worse, but I’m also sure there are certain ones that break through all the other efforts and IMO it’s ok to drop the hammer on them judicially.

I’m still in disbelief the girls who murdered that Uber driver are essentially going to serve 5-6 years based on when they age out of the juvenile system. I also think without more punitive measures people end up taking retribution / protection into their own hands like the dude who shot that 13 year old.

The one thing we need congress to help on is looking into the USAO which is responsible for prosecution of adults. It’s basically a black box we don’t get much accountability nor information on.

I don’t understand this. If she knows this fact, which I’ve seen other people corroborate; why isn’t she pushing for the AG to make sure they are locked up for longer or the post arrest process is changed to ensure more certainty of convictions.

One downside to allocating housing based on “need” like this, is it creates a lot of bureaucracy and work to qualify someone who is eligible because you’re using bureaucracy to ration a limited resource rather than price.

If you’re a market rate owner you set the price and run a credit, income and reference check and that’s it.

This same issue applies to IZ units as well. I genuinely think the way to go is just flat subsidies and also remove a lot of the red tape around vouchers. Even better, expand the EITC instead and continue working to significantly liberalize zoning so construction can catch up to demand.

I’d hate to be in the job of running DCHA as I imagine it’s 100x as hard as running a similarly sized portfolio of market rate units bc of all the red tape associated with every aspect of the business.