D.C.’s anti-gang strategy: Just rename them!
You can’t have a gang problem if you don’t have gangs. Thus is the bloody Washington, D.C. gang infestation solved. Brilliant law enforcement and city officials there have simply renamed the gangs “crews.” No “gangs,” no problem!
Via the Washington Times (hat tip – reader Clem):
When is a gang not a gang? When it’s based in the District.
D.C. officials insist on describing groups of young males as “crews,” rather than gangs, even when they are held responsible for violent acts such as the wave of killings in the city last weekend. But police officials in other cities say the distinction is counterproductive.
“The very first step in dealing with gangs is denial,” said Capt. Charles Bloom of the Philadelphia Police Department. “Then you get to the point that you can’t deny it any more.”
D.C. police, lawmakers and community activists say the groups are not gangs because their members are mostly teens who band together for personal protection. That, they say, distinguished them from conventional gangs, which are created for a criminal enterprise such as drug dealing.
Capt. Bloom said Philadelphia quit trying to make such distinctions two years ago. Although they once described such bands as “loose groups,” they now use the term “gang-related” for any group that engages in criminal violence.
Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier acknowledged this week that crews appear to be connected to some of the 10 homicides in the past two weeks — including four this past weekend. And they are connected to hundreds of shots fired and a dozen shootings late last year in the Columbia Heights neighborhood in Northwest, officials say.
The only kind of policing the D.C. Police Department seems willing and able to do is policing language.
Be safe, D.C. denizens. We’ll pray for you.
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This approach could work in a lot of other instances.
Old Term / New Term
Drugs / Pharmacological Life Ehancements
Corruption / Personal Revenue Augmentation Operations
Murder / Post-Natal Birth Control
DUI / Alcohol Assisted Locomotion
Prostitution / Politics
Kennedys / Boys Behaving Badly
DC could literally end crime overnight! I wonder why nobody thought of this before?
How about “Crew Doin’” or just “Crew-Do”?
Huh… I have never heard that term before. And now that I know the slang, I have to say that that was not a funny or clever joke. It’s not even a creative use of the slur.
I see no problem, since we can’t call people who fix roads “crews” anymore. They are Motor Vehicle Travel Lane and Area Engineers. Builders are now “Human Habitat Assembly Engineers”
/sarc
DC is fulls of Crooks and Punks.
The Crooks are Elected. The Punks are the real residents and both can be harmful.
DC after dark is dangerous to your Health. DC in daylight is dangerous to your wealth.
If you don’t believe it, go there and watch your SIX!
Just because I named my Mohammed Mohammed does not keep it from being what it is.
The affirmative action blond air head they have for a Chief of Police has reached a new low today. Between the new designation so they don’t sound as scary and the failure of DC authorities to allow their citizens to defend their life and liberty by using their US Constitutional 2nd Amendment rights I am surprised the neighborhoods are not ghost towns. Why would anyone one to live in this disfunctional city.
Well, since there are no more Jihadists and now no more gangs, I guess we can all get up and dance. Moreover, there are no racists any more either, except white ones (poor Jeremiah W. does his best, but I doubt he is ever going to make the grade). Get rid of all white men and it sounds like we will have achieved Utopia at last.
Gee, I wonder how we could get rid of all white men . . .
Note: When the Emperor asked Confucius what he would do if he were the ruler, his answer was: call everything by its true name. Confucius was not hired.
Along with the socialist uprising the 1965 flood gates were also opened.
Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.” Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting “the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much.”
I have many problems with Chief Lanier as well. But saying her promotion was because of affirmative action is reckless. She was a District Commander and was known for working well with the newly elected Mayor.
And blaming her for the handgun ban that’s been in the books since 1976 is pretty silly, too.
“Decriminalize drugs”. But then if someone murders or rapes when high you would use that as an excuse. Oh! the liberal mind.
On May 1st, 2008 at 3:55 pm, AlturaCt said:
“Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, assured jittery senators that “our cities will not be flooded with a million immigrants annually.” Senator Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, further calmed that august body, insisting “the total number of potential immigrants would not be changed very much.” ”
Yep. And that fat useless nation killing elitist pr*ck expected us to belive him this time. “But this time I really really mean it” he whined. I kept begging someone to throw that up to him on senate floor during the amnesty debates when he made predictions. And say “you have not been right yet on this subject, why now”? He also said 1M illegals would get amensty in 1986. 3M was the final tally. But alas, nobody had the b*lls. A bunch of lawyers with no b*lls running this country.
are they hand-painted and Royal Doulton?? HAHAHa!
But it does work. There’s no more “islamic fascism” anymore. There are no “jihadists”. Heck, “terrorists” don’t even exist anymore.
- May 1st, 1984, I mean 2008
Good luck, D.C.! After 40 years, I just moved away from that area on April 30th. Maybe next year, if “crews’ don’t work, you can call them “troops” or “fraternity brothers”. I’ve seen a fine city go downhill where it is more dangerous on the streets there, than in Baghdad. Glad I’m gone.
Wait, isn’t this how they solved the ‘jihadi’ problem too?
As for renaming everything to be more politically correct… When are they going to stop slandering Bible-believing, Christian, bitter gun nuts, eh?
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OT, here’s an interesting statistic taken from an article published by Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
“80% of cocaine and 50% of heroin in the U.S. is smuggled across the border by Mexican nationals.”
So, if we decriminalize drugs the illegals can become independent product distributors and the “crews” can work in the sales division.
Illegal immigration and “crew” problem solved….
/sarc off/
I do agree with some of the posters regarding the decriminalization of marijuana, to an extent.
We have had “crews” actively recruiting in the elementary schools in my area for the past several years now, and we don’t live in a major urban area.
If it walks like a Crip….
Does this mean I can’t shop at J.Crew anymore?
Got a chuckle out of this, reminded me of something that happened in a class when I was in the police academy.
I wrote a entry on my blog but for the life of me I can’t get a trackback to work, anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I’m using blogger and haloscan for the trackbacks. When I click on the trackback URL here I don’t get any special URL or anything.
Anyhow, here’s a link to my story if you are interested
Hopefully I can get trackbacks working and not have to post a link like this anymore. Any help on that score would be appreciated.
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