CVS Sangamore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

Montgomery County police are facing recruitment and retention problems much like other areas around the country....

"We are down approximately 129 officers and we need to fill those roles," Capt. Ian Clark, Director of MCPD's Training Division, tells FOX 5.

MCPD adds that if the department cannot improve hiring and retention rates, it faces a staffing shortage of up to 229 positions by the end of 2025.

According to county leaders, MCPD is currently struggling with finding enough qualified officers to address attrition.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-police-ramp-up-recruitment-efforts-amid-shortage

https://montgomeryperspective.com/2023/04/19/police-critically-understaffed-as-crime-keeps-rising/


This is sadly what happens when local leaders don't support the police and there is a push to defund them.
And, yes... they were "defunded."

In order to have as much funding for COVID-19 related expenses as possible, the County Council’s Public Safety Committee members agreed to eliminate about $7.6 million from the county budget by agreeing not to fill vacant positions and reducing the size of the next police and fire and rescue incoming classes.

The police department took the biggest hit when the committee members agreed to eliminate $2.8 million in motor pool expenses, $1.75 million in overtime cuts related to a reduced need to attend court hearings and $462,000 so that the current winter recruiting class will drop from the proposed 22 members to 14 members.

https://www.mymcmedia.org/council-committee-agrees-to-shave-7-6-million-from-current-budget/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

At this particular time, they were looking for a suicidal teen.

MoCo hasn’t reduced the police budget so much as it has changed the work environment so difficult that no sane person would want the job. They have a lot of vacancies as a result.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

They are following the policies made by the MoCo authorities. The decision to tolerate crime and disorder of this sort is a policy choice. Other choices could be made, but they won’t be made by the current slate of elected officials.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Deduct the guard costs from your property taxes.

+1000

[Anonymous]

I bet they’re real safe drivers too when they race away with five huge bags of stolen cosmetics to re-sell. Driving on MacArthur, sangamore and mass Ave.

Waldorf school, woodacres, the apartment and condo complexes, the kids dance and karate studios there, and the whole community better speak up loud and clear. Now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Call now.

Washington Post, update Bethesda reviews in Niche, county reps, community reps, Nextdoor, school principals, state reps, police office and your community rep for your neighborhood.

Unacceptable in so many ways.

45 min response time is truly horrid. Frankly anything over 10 mins is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

Works in San Fran. Smash and grabs for 24 mos before schism stores closed. Police and community never did a thing action wise. And still don’t.

Stores there are a waste of space and whole city is disgusting as there’s minimal normal foot traffics - kids, office workers, shoppers.

[Anonymous]

I live nearby and will contact my county council rep immediately if the police wait time is true - but where did you find out that part?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.

So what is even the point?

Lots of points

Firstly, don’t conflate drug addict homeless populations with organized crime hoodlums.

Thieves driving around, stuffing store inventory in their bag, driving off and posting it on Amazon and eBay are not gravely mentally ill and on drugs.

They’re immoral, unethical crooks. Period.

Secondly, make the police and politicians do their job. Speak up, take self defense, defend yourself and your children. Don’t buy discounted stolen goods online. Gosh, wonder who is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

At this particular time, they were looking for a suicidal teen.

MoCo hasn’t reduced the police budget so much as it has changed the work environment so difficult that no sane person would want the job. They have a lot of vacancies as a result.

Not all 1000s squad cars. Get real.

They are going to have to start publishing how they spend their time and equipment.

Or we can privatize this like all emerging markets do and police and defenders can be paid guards at store doors. That would be safer for the law abiding citizens and shoppers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live nearby and will contact my county council rep immediately if the police wait time is true - but where did you find out that part?

Contact them anyways.

All it takes is one 12 yo or elderly person or pregnant mom going in to buy something after school or walking through the lot and getting mowed down by thieves shoving them or running them over.

[Anonymous]

Amazon and Ebay are culpable in fuelling this type of crime. If they couldn’t resell these goods, they wouldn’t commit the crime.

“This wave of rip-offs is not being driven by individual shoplifters, but by large, organized theft operations that sell stolen goods online. Retailers and experts say the problem spiked during the pandemic, when stores cut back on staff. Venues like Amazon and eBay give thieves a convenient way to resell stolen goods. Last year the Prosecutors Alliance of California estimated that $500 billion worth of stolen or counterfeit goods are sold every year through online marketplaces. Some operations recruit drug addicts as "boosters," instructing them what to steal. "This is not petty theft," said Walgreens CFO James Kehoe. "These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products."

https://theweek.com/crime/1022861/the-plague-of-shoplifting-gangs?amp

[Anonymous]

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/districts/2D/index.html

Does it help contacting her department? Or do you need to go higher on the food chain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazon and Ebay are culpable in fuelling this type of crime. If they couldn’t resell these goods, they wouldn’t commit the crime.

“This wave of rip-offs is not being driven by individual shoplifters, but by large, organized theft operations that sell stolen goods online. Retailers and experts say the problem spiked during the pandemic, when stores cut back on staff. Venues like Amazon and eBay give thieves a convenient way to resell stolen goods. Last year the Prosecutors Alliance of California estimated that $500 billion worth of stolen or counterfeit goods are sold every year through online marketplaces. Some operations recruit drug addicts as "boosters," instructing them what to steal. "This is not petty theft," said Walgreens CFO James Kehoe. "These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products."

https://theweek.com/crime/1022861/the-plague-of-shoplifting-gangs?amp

FB Marketplace and tables on the weekends too. This is the nexus btw addicts and organized theft that a PP tried to deny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?

Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.

So what is even the point?

In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.

Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.