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DC Police Chief Robert Contee: 'We need to keep violent people in jail'
Washington Examiner ^ | 3/7/23 | Conn Carroll

Posted on 03/09/2023 1:57:54 PM PST by DallasBiff

Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee has a commonsense solution to rising homicides in Washington: “We need to keep violent people in jail.”

Asked at a press conference Monday if he expected the Council of the District of Columbia to change its approach to crime now that homicides have risen 30% so far this year, Contee responded, “What we gotta do if we really want to see homicides go down is keep bad guys with guns in jail.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; dc
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Robert Contee just put himself at the top of the left's cancel list.
1 posted on 03/09/2023 1:57:54 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Rediscovering the 1980-90s.

Put habitual criminals in jail.

DUH!


2 posted on 03/09/2023 2:00:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: DallasBiff

Wow, what a revelation!!!!


3 posted on 03/09/2023 2:02:22 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: DallasBiff
Watch Contee disappear.

Right now in Memphis they are using an effort called "Decarcerate Memphis", run by Soros style leftists stirring the pot.

4 posted on 03/09/2023 2:02:53 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: DoughtyOne
...keep bad guys with guns in jail.

Now there’s a novel idea! Let the problem sort of resolve itself.

5 posted on 03/09/2023 2:03:02 PM PST by sjmjax
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To: DallasBiff

Start with the Byrd asshole who murder oned Ashley Babbitt or stfu.


6 posted on 03/09/2023 2:03:38 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: DallasBiff

No sh$t


7 posted on 03/09/2023 2:04:01 PM PST by Lee25 ( )
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To: sjmjax

Smile...

It would.


8 posted on 03/09/2023 2:05:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for? which it stands.)
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To: DallasBiff

If you have to build more jails, then build them.

The first purpose of prison is not justice, or punishment, or rehabilitation, though all of those things matter. The first purpose is simply to confine and restrain the criminal so he can’t continue harming the honest people outside.

Crimes accompanied by violence merit tough sentences, for the sake of the ordinary people who would otherwise be victims. A repeated violent offender merits a life sentence, because he clearly can’t control his impulses, and can’t be allowed to roam free.


9 posted on 03/09/2023 2:09:25 PM PST by marron
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To: DallasBiff

Before or after we seal up the southern border?


10 posted on 03/09/2023 2:11:19 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: DallasBiff

Start with the cop who shot Ashley Babbitt.


11 posted on 03/09/2023 2:11:24 PM PST by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: DallasBiff

Racist!


12 posted on 03/09/2023 2:13:06 PM PST by PGR88
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To: sjmjax

I agree only to a point.
The death penalty is not available in each state and the Feds use technicalities to charge people in such as way as to say “thus the criminal is subject to the federal death penalty.”
They want all the fun.

The death penalty should be expanded exponentially. The criminals in heinous cases should be killed by the system, not lingering and smirking and getting re-trials or further delays for decades, while the children and adults they killed are dead-—the decision to kill them having been made by the killers.

Executed felons are no longer a waste of our millions of dollars in prison-——and they are “deterred” from further crimes by their end.


13 posted on 03/09/2023 2:29:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: DallasBiff
What a concept!
14 posted on 03/09/2023 2:29:28 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: HYPOCRACY

Add that black bitch that beat Susanne Boyland repeatedly while she was down and unconscious.


15 posted on 03/09/2023 2:43:31 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: DallasBiff
It's a cycle.

People notice crime is high. So sentencing gets tougher, putting more criminals in prison.

Crime decreases.

People notice a disproportionate number of prisoners are black. That's racist, so they lessen sentencing.

Crime increases.

Repeat cycle.

16 posted on 03/09/2023 2:50:20 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: falcon99

Right. Disgusting garbage.


17 posted on 03/09/2023 2:54:02 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: DallasBiff

***has a commonsense solution****

That solution was re-discovered back during the mistakes of 1968. But the Democrats screwed up again when California governor Edmund Brown began to close down the mental institutions. Following administrations did the same.


18 posted on 03/09/2023 2:54:53 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Angelino97

Where is the for profit prison lobby? Oh that’s right, they only wanted non violent potheads that Kamela sent to prison for life.


19 posted on 03/09/2023 2:56:00 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: DallasBiff

Nah, let em’ go in DC.


20 posted on 03/09/2023 2:57:50 PM PST by dljordan
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