TooSwang
TooSwang t1_j91wrmb wrote
Reply to comment by OctoberCaddis in Armed Robbery Outside Eliot-Hine Middle School by AndreTippettPoint
Carjacking and motor vehicle theft are separate crimes nimrod, they’re literally broken out separately
TooSwang t1_j91ggge wrote
Reply to comment by Deanocracy in Armed Robbery Outside Eliot-Hine Middle School by AndreTippettPoint
This probably isn’t the most welcome sentiment especially in this sub, but I think “frustration with the Justice system” is a little generous to people up in arms about crime. Crime is down. You can go to MPD’s statistics if you want to check. Motor vehicle thefts are the one thing unambiguously up, and that’s almost certainly that MPD is not using the tools at its disposal to stop that - if you think it’s hard to track hundreds of stolen vehicles I would encourage you to speak to literally any law enforcement. I think we can always pull one-off incidents and point to them as alarming but there is ample research showing public perceptions of crime have virtually no relationship with actual trends. When people talk about their “feeling” of safety, they are much more often talking about how they’ve let themselves be whipped into a panic by pro-police voices in politics, the media, and their communities, than they actually are talking about a truly felt threat to their safety. So no, I don’t think the source of frustrations is about minor differences in sentencing, I think it’s something else entirely.
TooSwang t1_j914q43 wrote
Reply to comment by BrightThru2014 in Armed Robbery Outside Eliot-Hine Middle School by AndreTippettPoint
Have you ever heard someone complaining about speed cameras that actually considers not speeding in the future? Do you think the reasoning is all that different for someone committing armed robbery, whether it’s 8 or 12 years in prison?
TooSwang t1_j97b7i8 wrote
Reply to comment by OctoberCaddis in Armed Robbery Outside Eliot-Hine Middle School by AndreTippettPoint
Carjacking, when someone has their car stolen while they are in it, is a violent crime included under robbery, not a property crime included under motor vehicle theft. This is explained where they say how the terms are defined. For the good of your family and neighbors please learn to read, I worry knowing there are folks like you in the area living in such an illiterate fog.
https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/23-1331
“(4) The term “crime of violence” means aggravated assault; act of terrorism; arson; assault on a police officer (felony); assault with a dangerous weapon; assault with intent to kill, commit first degree sexual abuse, commit second degree sexual abuse, or commit child sexual abuse; assault with significant bodily injury; assault with intent to commit any other offense; burglary; carjacking; armed carjacking; child sexual abuse; cruelty to children in the first degree; extortion or blackmail accompanied by threats of violence; gang recruitment, participation, or retention by the use or threatened use of force, coercion, or intimidation; kidnapping; malicious disfigurement; manslaughter; manufacture or possession of a weapon of mass destruction; mayhem; murder; robbery; sexual abuse in the first, second, or third degrees; use, dissemination, or detonation of a weapon of mass destruction; or an attempt, solicitation, or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses.”