Carjackings just will.not.stop. MoCo council is out of control.

[Anonymous]

Two carjackings in the same day yesterday in Takoma Park. This is after another carjacking in late Jan. in Silver Spring, along with the multiple other carjackings in Silver Spring a few weeks before that. MoCo's council is failing at the basic duty of the entire govt - which is to ensure public safety and law and order. There are no consequences for major crimes like carjacking. Is it time MoCo residents who are fed up with crime withhold their taxes from the county govt for failing to do their basic jobs like how Baltimore residents did a little while back when crime was so out of control in Baltimore people got fed up and stopped paying taxes directly to the city?

MoCo's justice reform is plunging the county in absolute chaos and anarchy. Law abiding citizens are not allowed to defend themselves, police are not aloowed to chase, and there are no consequences even if caught. This is an abject failure of basic duty by the county govt.

[Anonymous]

It isn't justice reform causing the problem. It is desperate people who have access to guns and intimidate others with cars that is the problem. It really doesn't matter what kind of penalties exist for these crimes, unless you are actually able to catch the criminals, which seldom happens, then they get away with it and do it again.

[Anonymous]

I'm just glad TP is getting hit so maybe something will be done. A few more car jackings in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be effective as well.

[Anonymous]

I clicked on this thread to find out which county councilmembers were committing carjackings, but no, it's just the same old DCUM DCUM-ing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't justice reform causing the problem. It is desperate people who have access to guns and intimidate others with cars that is the problem. It really doesn't matter what kind of penalties exist for these crimes, unless you are actually able to catch the criminals, which seldom happens, then they get away with it and do it again.

At least with substantial penalties you would not have to catch them again and again. And again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I clicked on this thread to find out which county councilmembers were committing carjackings, but no, it's just the same old DCUM DCUM-ing.

Meaning what, exactly?

There’s a strong desire for more policing and harsher penalties, seen most recently at the council’s community meeting about traffic safety. The number of residents calling for fewer police seems quite small, actually. Perhaps the council should listen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm just glad TP is getting hit so maybe something will be done. A few more car jackings in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be effective as well.

This!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm just glad TP is getting hit so maybe something will be done. A few more car jackings in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be effective as well.

+1

Absolutely the most narcissistic group of people imaginable about to literally prove the “conservative is a liberal who was mugged” thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two carjackings in the same day yesterday in Takoma Park. This is after another carjacking in late Jan. in Silver Spring, along with the multiple other carjackings in Silver Spring a few weeks before that. MoCo's council is failing at the basic duty of the entire govt - which is to ensure public safety and law and order. There are no consequences for major crimes like carjacking. Is it time MoCo residents who are fed up with crime withhold their taxes from the county govt for failing to do their basic jobs like how Baltimore residents did a little while back when crime was so out of control in Baltimore people got fed up and stopped paying taxes directly to the city?

MoCo's justice reform is plunging the county in absolute chaos and anarchy. Law abiding citizens are not allowed to defend themselves, police are not aloowed to chase, and there are no consequences even if caught. This is an abject failure of basic duty by the county govt.

This is what you get when you vote Democrat. Defunding the police. Criminal reform where even if caught, they don’t get prosecuted.

Maybe vote another way or for Democrats who want to strengthen the police and actually prosecute criminals. Hasn’t this justice reform experiment failed miserably with crime out of control everywhere?

At which point do you feel afraid to got out anywhere or have to carry a weapon to defend yourself?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm just glad TP is getting hit so maybe something will be done. A few more car jackings in Bethesda and Chevy Chase would be effective as well.

+ 1 should be the progressive county council and exec.

[Anonymous]

Back when I used to live in Chevy Chase (I am rational so I moved to nova years ago), Takoma Park was known as basically just a haven for stinky hippies who couldn't afford bethesda/chevy chase. These days people talk as if it's some kind of place that that anyone other than a hobo would want to spend time in. How did MoCo fall so low to let one of the crappiest parts of the county have any power??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It isn't justice reform causing the problem. It is desperate people who have access to guns and intimidate others with cars that is the problem. It really doesn't matter what kind of penalties exist for these crimes, unless you are actually able to catch the criminals, which seldom happens, then they get away with it and do it again.

Desperate? Maybe some are but the 14 year olds are just bored, not desperate.

[Anonymous]

Directly from the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force:
“Reduce sworn officer FTEs in police Districts 3 and 4 by 50 % to reduce patrol officer contact with residents in these districts.”

If police in Wheaton and Silver Spring just stop interacting with residents, all will be well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It isn't justice reform causing the problem. It is desperate people who have access to guns and intimidate others with cars that is the problem. It really doesn't matter what kind of penalties exist for these crimes, unless you are actually able to catch the criminals, which seldom happens, then they get away with it and do it again.

Desperate? Maybe some are but the 14 year olds are just bored, not desperate.

+1. I hate the "desperate people" line. "Desperate" for what -- a new car??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I clicked on this thread to find out which county councilmembers were committing carjackings, but no, it's just the same old DCUM DCUM-ing.

Meaning what, exactly?

There’s a strong desire for more policing and harsher penalties, seen most recently at the council’s community meeting about traffic safety. The number of residents calling for fewer police seems quite small, actually. Perhaps the council should listen?

At that meeting, they proposed police not enforce traffic laws at all. Instead, some other group would be set up just for that purpose.

The reasoning I guess is people who commit traffic offenses end up getting arrested for other infractions during the traffic stop.