Faifax Police in Bethesda

[Anonymous]

Sunday night around midnight I was awakened by the sound of a helicopter circulating over my highrise in Bethesda. After checking flightaware and openmhz I discovered that Fairfax 1 followed a car from fairfax county with a suspended license and was asking MCPD to arrest them. A supervisor for MCPD denied the request and the car drove into the District abd thw helicopter went back to Fairfax. How often does police cross state lines and the residing jurisdiction (Moco) denies help?

[Anonymous]

This is why:
https://x.com/dcnewslive/status/1906569349516653021?s=46&t=R3AX3c486LFdeZpFtkN_eA

[Anonymous]

Different states (and counties) have different laws, OP. Is that a surprise?

[Anonymous]

Do the charges have to be a felon for mcpd to chase? The fairfax copter didnt notify mcpd until the car was leaving the inner loop at Rockville pike, a good 5 to 8 miles inside Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the charges have to be a felon for mcpd to chase? The fairfax copter didnt notify mcpd until the car was leaving the inner loop at Rockville pike, a good 5 to 8 miles inside Maryland.

Here is MCPD's policy

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/POL/Resources/Files/PDF/Directives/100/FC135.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is why:
https://x.com/dcnewslive/status/1906569349516653021?s=46&t=R3AX3c486LFdeZpFtkN_eA

Jesus. They should at least close down the traffic coming up Wisconsin so that no one gets hit by this awful person.

[Anonymous]

Our tax dollars at work. Be thankful you or your teens and young adults were not out driving this late. Unreal.

And yet, the MVA is threatening to suspend my registration if I don't get my emissions tested this week. Rule for me... but apparently no one else.


MCP 2D/Bethesda officers spotted the car (no tags) parked at a gas station, at which point the car drove recklessly into oncoming traffic on Wisconsin Ave without headlights on.

Due to Montgomery County’s limited pursuit policy, officers were told to disengage & the car was last seen driving on the wrong side of Wisconsin Ave into Washington DC. h/t
@CordellTraffic

[Anonymous]

Note to self, next time I see a police car and they seem to be eying me, immediately pull into the opposite lane and nail the gas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Note to self, next time I see a police car and they seem to be eying me, immediately pull into the opposite lane and nail the gas.

It only works if you don't have tags.

[Anonymous]

This is okay, but a car w/o plates is allowed to get away?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is okay, but a car w/o plates is allowed to get away?

The police should not have started pursuit in the first place. The driver was obeying traffic laws until the police started to harass him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is okay, but a car w/o plates is allowed to get away?

The police should not have started pursuit in the first place. The driver was obeying traffic laws until the police started to harass him.

What a moronic assertion. Maybe a new low, even on DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is okay, but a car w/o plates is allowed to get away?

The police should not have started pursuit in the first place. The driver was obeying traffic laws until the police started to harass him.

What a moronic assertion. Maybe a new low, even on DCUM?

My assertion is the DC MPD pursuit policy. Refueling a vehicle without valid tags is not an imminent threat.

The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department's pursuit policy allows officers to engage in high-speed chases only under strict conditions, such as when the suspect poses an imminent threat to public safety or has committed a violent crime. The policy emphasizes the need to exhaust all other options before initiating a pursuit to minimize risks to innocent bystanders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our tax dollars at work. Be thankful you or your teens and young adults were not out driving this late. Unreal.

And yet, the MVA is threatening to suspend my registration if I don't get my emissions tested this week. Rule for me... but apparently no one else.


MCP 2D/Bethesda officers spotted the car (no tags) parked at a gas station, at which point the car drove recklessly into oncoming traffic on Wisconsin Ave without headlights on.

Due to Montgomery County’s limited pursuit policy, officers were told to disengage & the car was last seen driving on the wrong side of Wisconsin Ave into Washington DC. h/t
@CordellTraffic

The policy that you are criticizing clearly worked to keep our residents safe since nobody was harmed in this instance. How can you deny the truth of that? How can you say that a high speed pursuit would not have resulted in the death of teens or young adults?

[Anonymous]

Did you want the police to add a second car with lights driving the wrong direction down Wisconsin?

That would be a recipe for a pile up.

People actually drive into flashing lights. They get disoriented.

https://www.quora.com/How-common-are-accidents-involving-police-vehicles-with-emergency-lights-on