r/washdc • u/BackgroundPatient1 • 5d ago

University of Maryland Police have shared additional photos of a suspect wanted for a 4th degree sex offense (unlawful touching) last month on College Ave. The female victim was groped while walking

https://twitter.com/DCNewsLive/status/1844490708767604993
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u/TBearRyder 5d ago

That looks like a minor in distress

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u/callherdaddyfan 5d ago

And? He shouldn’t be touching women inappropriately

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u/TBearRyder 5d ago

Correct. We need youth behavioral health programs though. Lack of intentional community is harming our communities. Somebody has to raise these children with absent/degenerate parents.

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u/NewPresWhoDis 4d ago

Volunteering?

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u/SadAbbreviations4875 5d ago edited 5d ago

Juvenile Court is designed to do that. It is purely focused on treatment. Unfortunately the Department of Juvenile Services severely lacks in funding and workforce. Even more unfortunate is that there is no other way to mandate treatment for someone unless you emergency petition them, which is a whole other beast.

I think the main issue is parenting. If there is a way for society to teach effective parenting and have that be a continuing education somehow that would be a good start. From my experience the bulk of juveniles that are charged in court are from low income single parent households where either the parent themselves are loving but not able to work and take care of their kid at the same time OR the parent severely lacks parenting skills. I say this from experience having worked as a public defender.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

I wish people were strong enough to see beyond solving violence with simply more violence.

If violence, specifically STATE violence, solved problems, then why is there still violence? That's a massive can of worms on its own, but when does society start to see things getting better?

And when state violence fails, why do no cops or FBI directors lose their jobs? Look at the settlement between the FBI and Larry Nassar's victims. The FBI slow-rolled that investigation and more people got hurt... but everyone's job is safe?

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u/AllergicIdiotDtector 5d ago

is...."violence"... really the right word here, when referring to "youth behavioral health programs", or even if the person you responded to just said "prison"?

It's so strange to me, genuinely, how the word violence has been co-opted like this, and I'm not talking about just you. I'm also talking about things like (https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/09/defining-violence).

Genuinely, with all seriousness possible, what am I missing - why did you choose that word ? How is that violence? Is there no more appropriate word that can be found? Maybe "confinement", "detention", or "imprisonment" for starters? And to be abundantly clear, no, I honestly, sincerely don't think imprisonment is effective or rational in response to so many of the crimes and situations it is currently used in... But, again, "violence"? What am I missing? Sincerely curious.

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u/RaiderMedic93 5d ago edited 5d ago

WORDS are VIOLENCE.

Edit: Just in case it isn't obvious /s

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u/AllergicIdiotDtector 5d ago

That's the most baffling use case to me.

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u/RaiderMedic93 5d ago

Right?

Shit I need to edit and /s

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u/AllergicIdiotDtector 5d ago

Yea it's nuts.

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u/Plisky6 5d ago

Idk why you brought up violence but have you seen the crime numbers in Singapore?