That’s part of the problem. There’s no one accountable. People direct their anger at MPD, the Mayor, and the Council, and there is for sure some blame to go around. They also direct their office at the DC Attorney General, and while there’s some blame there for some things, mostly misdemeanors and youths, they’re not to blame for this. Our felonies are prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for DC. The US Attorney is a presidential appointee. The AUSAs (prosecutors, in this case) are federal employees. They try the cases in our local court, except the judges are presidential appointees there too. So what do we do when federal officials who don’t have to answer to the local populace refuse to charge people who allegedly commit violent felonies or when they plea out what by all accounts appears to have been a premeditated murder carried out in front of the victim’s kids and recommend the perpetrator get so little jail time that, even if he were to serve his entire sentence, he’d still be out before the kids graduate from high school? Nothing. We rage into the wind. We don’t even have a voting rep in Congress who might pursue these things on our behalf.