Posted on 11/02/2022 9:30:38 AM PDT by bitt
When your whole city’s a toilet, why not embrace it?
The D.C. Council is expected to take the first of two votes Tuesday on a massive rewrite of its criminal code. If passed, the bill would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases and reduce the maximum penalties for offenses such as burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
Assume that there’ll be a lot more burglaries, carjackings and robberies.
Not to mention public urination.
Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Robert Contee III are pushing back hard on parts of the plan they don’t agree with, and say the council is rushing to beat an arbitrary deadline.
At a news conference Tuesday, the mayor said the concern is over the decriminalization of certain public nuisances, such as urinating in public or noise violations.
Like most “criminal justice reform” measures, this is a pro-crime project meant to enable more of it.
“The requirement for Burglary 1 (first-degree burglary), which would be the highest grade of burglary, would require that a resident perceive that the person was inside of their home,” said Contee. “First, why are we shifting the burden to the resident in order to charge the highest penalty? You’ve been victimized.”
“Burglary 2, which is a lesser degree, does not require that you perceive, that you knew, the person broke into your house. … If you are asleep and you don’t wake up while the person is in your house, then that’s a lower grade, but if you wake up and you happen to see the person is in there, then that’s a higher degree of burglary? That just does not make sense to me.”
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Pray for the law-abiding.
It did wonders for San Francisco... I don’t plan to ever set foot in the city again.
So I can go to DC now and piss on the front steps to Carol Moseley Braun’s townhouse? Oh man I’ve got a list.
I remember that this was an issue a long, long time ago back in the 80s. Street vendors didn’t have anywhere to go to the bathroom so the police looked the other way if they urinated in any alley or storm sewer grate.
Urination? Let’s go big. Take a big dump in Wal Mart.
What about defecation?
Just making the third worlders who snuck across the border feel more at home.
This is why we can’t have nice things..../s
Hope Nancy gets buried in DC...Then I won’t get arrested at her gravesite
“Pray for the law-abiding.”
Few and far between in D.C.
This is what happens when Democrats run cities into bankruptcy.
Does the Capitol Rotunda count as a public place? Asking for a friend.
DC started out as a stinky swamp—looks like it is destined to go back to its original state...
Thus, they will get more of it. May have to move the Capital out of DC... for safety.
This should turn that toilet into a cess pool.
> allow for jury trials in almost all misdemeanor cases <
Well, they got that one right. This is a pet peeve of mine.
The 6th Amendment: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed...”
Not the second word there, “all”. All means all!
Well, the Supreme Court has ruled that “all” actually means crimes carrying a possible penalty of more than six months imprisonment. That flies in the face of common sense. “Six months” is not even mentioned in the 6A.
So if you are charged with a crime carrying a six month imprisonment or less, you cannot demand a jury trial.
That’s just wrong. Follow the plain wording of the Constitution. Or change it. Don’t ignore it.
More Soros evil making life miserable for as many people as possible. People need to wake up.
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