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Rise in DC carjackings linked to repeat juvenile offenders, police data shows
Fox 5 Washington D.C. via Yahoo ^ | November 16, 2023 | Sierra Fox

Posted on 11/17/2023 1:46:07 PM PST by grundle

Carjackings are on the rise in our nation’s capital.

Leaders in the District have their hands tied trying to find a solution.

Right now, the issue is glaring. Carjackings are up 104% in D.C., and police say that volume is overwhelming.

Alarming statistics show more than 800 have occurred so far in 2023, compared to a little over 400 at the same time in 2022.

Dowling told FOX 5 that there are often a lot of repeat offenders.

D.C. police data reveals that 66% of arrests involve juveniles.

The current D.C. law makes it difficult to hold young people accountable for their actions.

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I don’t believe for one second that leaders in Washington D.C. are “trying to find a solution” to carjacking.

Instead, I believe that the city’s leaders want there to be as much carjacking as possible.

Because why else would the city keep releasing the same carjackers again and again and again?

For all practical purposes, carjacking in Washington D.C. has been decriminalized.

1 posted on 11/17/2023 1:46:07 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

At least none of these yutes has to go home and face their fathers after what they did...


2 posted on 11/17/2023 1:50:02 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: grundle
Don't they have juvie halls anymore?

Especially if carjacking involves the use of a gun, the "kids" should be kept away from the public until a trial and then tried as an adult and sent away to a prison.

3 posted on 11/17/2023 1:50:33 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: grundle

When you let them get away with their first crime, there will be a second, and a third, and a fourth.


4 posted on 11/17/2023 1:51:04 PM PST by I want the USA back (Democracy dies when you take away from those who work and give to those who won't. Khrushchev.)
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“...the city keep releasing the same carjackers again and again and again...”

Not just carjackers either...Most democrat run cities release just about everyone who commits a crime and is not white...


5 posted on 11/17/2023 1:52:05 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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6 posted on 11/17/2023 1:54:33 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

They need to ventilate a few.


7 posted on 11/17/2023 2:01:12 PM PST by Mouton (US Home to one party rule)
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To: I want the USA back

They need to say juvenile records will remain open, just like adult records. It is ridiculous that they haven’t done that. Or at least until they have not committed any more crimes for a certain amount of time.


8 posted on 11/17/2023 2:30:37 PM PST by Chicory
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To: eyeamok

How could this be? They get caught, tried, convicted and go to prison or juvenile lockups. We’re all safe.

Oh, wait. They get admonished, let go without jail and get ready to find new victims.

So-——Democrats———you vote soft on crime policies and we all suffer for it. We’ll remember you.


9 posted on 11/17/2023 3:19:06 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: grundle

I read somewhere that even in big cities if we arrested a few hundred of the worst habitual offenders and threw the key away, or shot them, it would eliminate a large % of serious crimes.

And if we did that every year crime reduction would become permanent, it might take a while.

But that would be cruel and inhumane to them…screw the innocent victims I guess.


10 posted on 11/17/2023 3:30:53 PM PST by Phoenix8
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In the old west hanging was the punishment for horse thievin. Should be the same for stealing a car. That would end it quick.


11 posted on 11/17/2023 3:35:47 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: oldasrocks

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And I understand now why they were so harsh about it. If you steal a person or families ability to travel you basically take their rights away. Almost all of them.


12 posted on 11/17/2023 3:38:15 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: grundle

And 90+% are of one particular racial persuasion.


13 posted on 11/17/2023 3:46:51 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Mouton

Make that a bunch.


14 posted on 11/17/2023 3:59:40 PM PST by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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To: grundle
For all practical purposes, carjacking in Washington D.C. has been decriminalized.

Institute Saudi Arabia punishments.

"Drinking intoxicants is punishable by 80 lashes. There is also theft (punishable by amputation of the hand); illicit sexual relations (death by stoning, or 100 lashes); making unproven accusations of illicit sex (80 lashes); apostasy (death or banishment); and highway robbery (death sentence)."

Note how theft calls for amputation of a hand, and highway robbery gets a death sentence. However, even Saudi Arabia is reforming some laws regarding punishment, that curbs the death penalty for some child offenders. Maybe our judges can take lessons from Saudi Arabia.

15 posted on 11/17/2023 5:45:24 PM PST by roadcat
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