Save us from handwringers, panderers, preservers of ineffective public policy and the American Civil Liberties Union. They all want to play dodgeball and hopscotch with criminals. They haven’t seen a thug they didn’t want to “give some love” — never mind that thug may have just robbed an old lady or shot a kid.

Even after District leaders’ declaration of a crime emergency, people continue to be killed or physically harmed. Youth under 16, facing a 10 p.m. curfew, still haunt the streets at ungodly hours looking for their next thrill — stabbing someone in Georgetown or Adams Morgan.

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