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Last year homicides in Washington, DC reached a twenty year high while the brain-dead City Council was passing a law to shorten sentences for violent and serious crimes.\u00a0 The Daily Mail reports<\/a> that yesterday Metro Police Chief Robert Contee made a startling suggestion.\u00a0 “What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep the bad guys with guns in jail.\u00a0 Because when they’re in jail, they can’t be in communities shooting people.”<\/p>\n

What a concept….actually punishing criminal offenders.\u00a0 Several questions come to mind regarding this announcement.\u00a0 What if most of the offenders to be locked up are black?\u00a0 Is the Chief racist?\u00a0 Is he actually supporting “mass incarceration,” which progressives tell us was an abject failure in the 1990s?\u00a0\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 most criminal offenders in Washington, DC are black, and most of their victims are black.\u00a0 Progressives and race-baiters insist that the only way to achieve “racial justice” is to stop arresting black offenders, leaving them on the streets to find more black victims.\u00a0 Where is the justice in that scenario?\u00a0 By the way, Chief Craig and Mayor Muriel Bowser, who also wants the district to crack down on criminals, are both black.<\/p>\n

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On February 9th of this year Democrat Congressperson Angie Craig D-Minn was attacked in a Washington, DC elevator by a habitual criminal with 13 prior crimes.\u00a0 “In every instance he got 10 days or 30 days.\u00a0 Many times, the charges were completely dropped…” she told reporters.\u00a0 She blamed the attack on DC’s soft-on-crime policies.\u00a0 There’s an old saying that “a conservative is a liberal who got mugged.”<\/p>\n

The “mass incarceration” resulting from locking up repeat offenders, was perhaps the most effective public policy ever adopted in the United States.\u00a0 Habitual criminal laws passed in the 1980s and 90s drove violent crime rates down and kept them there through 2018.\u00a0 Property crime rates dropped to levels not seen since the mid 1960s.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of Americans were spared from becoming victims.<\/p>\n

Many of the progressives pushing for reduced sentencing and so called “racial justice” in recent years were wearing diapers during the last crime wave and never taught how it was ended.\u00a0 Those old enough to know better, who still support such reforms are either too dumb or corrupt to see what’s happening.<\/p>\n

The winds of change are starting to blow.<\/p>\n

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Last year homicides in Washington, DC reached a twenty year high while the brain-dead City Council was passing a law to shorten sentences for violent and serious crimes.\u00a0 The Daily Mail reports that yesterday Metro Police Chief Robert Contee made a startling suggestion.\u00a0 “What we got to do, if we really want to see homicides go down, is keep the bad guys with guns in jail.\u00a0 Because when they’re in jail, they can’t be in communities shooting people.” What a concept….actually punishing criminal offenders.\u00a0 Several questions come to mind regarding this announcement.\u00a0 What if most of the offenders to be locked up are black?\u00a0 Is the Chief racist?\u00a0 Is he actually supporting “mass incarceration,” which progressives tell us was an abject failure in the 1990s?\u00a0\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 most criminal offenders in Washington, DC are black, and most of their victims are black.\u00a0 Progressives and race-baiters insist that the only way to achieve “racial justice” is to stop arresting black offenders, leaving them on the streets to find more black victims.\u00a0 Where is the justice in that scenario?\u00a0 By the way, Chief Craig and Mayor Muriel Bowser, who also wants the district to crack down on criminals, are both black.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-sentencing"],"yoast_head":"\nDC Police Chief: "Lock Them Up" - 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