At last weeks hearing on the curfew, many orgs who work every day to provided safer joyful alter gauges for youth say the city has cut their funding in recent years. Young people testified the curfews make them less safe. We’re not listening and we’re not acting to ACTUALLY solve the problem.

Also- for many young people home is not safe nor are their neighborhoods. When we say ALL youth cannot be in relatively safer area for them to hang out like u street or navy yard- we’re subjecting many of them to more violence.

People want to say- “but we can do both”- address root cause and use curfews as an immediate answer. But we’re not. Last years DC budget cut child tax credit, cut Medicaid. Universal Out of School time programming bill couldn’t even get a markup while curfews get emergency legislation within days!

her miserable track record of de-funding the social safety net, over-policing young people, siding with national Republicans on crime and so much more. It's way past time for new leadership in DC.
@janeese4dc.bsky.social

...on the fact that so many locals pay little attention to local politics, but now it's clear to so many neighbors who have previously paid little attention she just doesn't share their values- from her tendency to support business profits over people... 2/3

Where’s the rest of the results with the favorability of each official and the head to heads?