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

[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.

So have these "desperate people" ever thought of working a job to make the money for a car payment like reputable and respectable people do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The whole point is to decrease the possibility that people with existing warrants, ie already committed a crime, have interactions with police so that they can be caught and held accountable for their criminal conduct.

[Anonymous]

These “desperate people” aren’t stealing cars because they can’t afford reliable transportation. WTAF with that

Also I think there was another one in TP today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is what Philadelphia is doing....not enforcing traffic laws as too many arrests from other infractions.

[Anonymous]

At what point does the working person...the person working one, two or three jobs to pay their bills get protected from crime and car jackings?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

It's like if you don't report it, the count will be low.

Commit a crime, no police will be called to interact with the criminal. Tada.. lower crime stats.

We're seeing the same sh1t in schools with removing the SROs and the Restorative Justice bullcrap.

I think Rockville is District 3, right? I live in Rockville. WTF. Is this at the county level? I hope it's not at the city level. Thank god for RPD, then. WTF do I pay my taxes for.

Who came up with that stupid sh1te? I'm going to email my city council member.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At what point does the working person...the person working one, two or three jobs to pay their bills get protected from crime and car jackings?

they are supposed to put up with it because certain people deserve a second, third, fourth, a gazillion chances. Barf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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?

It's like if you don't report it, the count will be low.

Commit a crime, no police will be called to interact with the criminal. Tada.. lower crime stats.

We're seeing the same sh1t in schools with removing the SROs and the Restorative Justice bullcrap.

I think Rockville is District 3, right? I live in Rockville. WTF. Is this at the county level? I hope it's not at the city level. Thank god for RPD, then. WTF do I pay my taxes for.

Who came up with that stupid sh1te? I'm going to email my city council member.

Here’s the group that came up with the report:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/rps/taskforce/

Please email the county council!

[Anonymous]

OP:

- why are you, and so many others in this thread, blaming the criminals here?

[Anonymous]

“social justice.”

“disparate racial impact.”

[Anonymous]

And yet people keep electing the SJW council members.

This was the logical consequence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

But yet no one is arguing that the other crimes were made up.

Traffic stops help cut down on crime because it gives an opportunity to catch the big fish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These “desperate people” aren’t stealing cars because they can’t afford reliable transportation. WTAF with that

Also I think there was another one in TP today.

Seriously.

People are delusional.

If your car is stolen what happens to it? It gets sold or stripped down for parts.

It is not used so "desperate" people can get to their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These “desperate people” aren’t stealing cars because they can’t afford reliable transportation. WTAF with that

Also I think there was another one in TP today.

Seriously.

People are delusional.

If your car is stolen what happens to it? It gets sold or stripped down for parts.

It is not used so "desperate" people can get to their jobs.

Cars are stolen for the main purpose of joyriding or committing other crimes.

If they want the parts, they just take your wheels, catalytic converter, airbag, etc and leave the car where it is.

[Anonymous]

A friend recently filed a police report for an attempted car theft. The officer viewed the Ring footage and confirmed that the group had triggered many police reports the night before. The officer told my friend that the group was eventually pursued by MoCo police but that the police had to stop at the DC line. DC doesn't let MoCo police pursue suspects in DC. Does anyone know if this is a real rule?