In most big cities violent crime is declining. In Washington the opposite is true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vote for Lisa Gore if you live in W4, support her if you live elsewhere and agree with her approach

I'm taking the approach that we are interconnected. I don't live in JLG or Allen's, but they have been disasters for ALL of us. I will look at giving to Lisa Gore. Every sane councilmember is a win, and who knows, maybe a future Mayor.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And still, nothing in this thread can coherently explain why MPD arrests nosedived and crime spiked even though crime has decreased everywhere else including cities that cut police and treated police much worse than DC.

Someone said it starts with leadership and I'm starting to think it's with the DC police union leadership.

Nope. The cops aren’t the problem here.

When arrests are massively down from where they were, and in a way that is completely disjointed from and disproportionate to budget cuts or anything else that has happened, that makes it the fault of the police.

Prior to 2017, USAO consistently prosecuted 70+% of arrests, across R & D administrations. Graves declines to prosecute up to 67% of arrests, basically inverting the ratio. It's the fault of the USA.

Lack of prosecutions is the USAO's fault. But lack of arrests is MPD's fault. Stupid of MPD to make the USAO's failing their own failing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.

No surprises there, far-left movements in the US that agitate for the most extreme policies are largely comprised of well educated whites.

[Anonymous]

This may signal a welcome change in direction. (Still, contact your CM, At Larges and Mendelson to urge support of bill by whole Council, yesterday was just a Committee vote)

[Anonymous]

This may explain some of the difference in DC. They have never been clear about funders.

DCJL claimed authorship of the crime bill blocked by Congress and Biden as well as its talking points.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.

I'm also a big believer that if these kids were caught for small things and provided actual reform rather than fake Charles Allen reform act reform (with no reform - does he ever speak to that part????) (ie education, counseling, supervision) they wouldn't proceed to be career criminals..right now the system is letting them carry on with no arrests or justice system revolving door style until they murder someone. It's unbelievable if you didn't see it unfold every day.

[Anonymous]

So, this just happened in broad daylight...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And still, nothing in this thread can coherently explain why MPD arrests nosedived and crime spiked even though crime has decreased everywhere else including cities that cut police and treated police much worse than DC.

Someone said it starts with leadership and I'm starting to think it's with the DC police union leadership.

Nope. The cops aren’t the problem here.

When arrests are massively down from where they were, and in a way that is completely disjointed from and disproportionate to budget cuts or anything else that has happened, that makes it the fault of the police.

Prior to 2017, USAO consistently prosecuted 70+% of arrests, across R & D administrations. Graves declines to prosecute up to 67% of arrests, basically inverting the ratio. It's the fault of the USA.

Lack of prosecutions is the USAO's fault. But lack of arrests is MPD's fault. Stupid of MPD to make the USAO's failing their own failing.

If the USAO's resources and bandwidth are being sucked up by J6 prosecutions then maybe the White House should help with more staffing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.

Being a snowflake and not doing your job of policing because some randos on the internet said some mean things has not helped the black community.

[Anonymous]

https://www.whec.com/top-news/pittsford-mendon-graduate-shot-and-killed-in-washington-d-c/?fbclid=IwAR1DpoSxI1Xlsc6oUT4ZmnsNKmXd_hQ68S7fPTYhMiftc4hy4WTPOEhaqSU

I hate the fact that people come to DC to do good work and then get gunned down walking home from the metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.whec.com/top-news/pittsford-mendon-graduate-shot-and-killed-in-washington-d-c/?fbclid=IwAR1DpoSxI1Xlsc6oUT4ZmnsNKmXd_hQ68S7fPTYhMiftc4hy4WTPOEhaqSU

I hate the fact that people come to DC to do good work and then get gunned down walking home from the metro.

This is absolutely horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.whec.com/top-news/pittsford-mendon-graduate-shot-and-killed-in-washington-d-c/?fbclid=IwAR1DpoSxI1Xlsc6oUT4ZmnsNKmXd_hQ68S7fPTYhMiftc4hy4WTPOEhaqSU

I hate the fact that people come to DC to do good work and then get gunned down walking home from the metro.

This is horrific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's almost as if painting Black Lives Matter on the streets of DC didn't take care of all of the problems...

Maybe because pretending that the police are the biggest problem facing the black community was a convenient red herring used to deflect attention from some more inconvenient, less PC problems.

Which you proposed to solve how??? oh that's right you got nothing.

One thing is clear: making it less desirable to be a police officer, and making existing officers scared to do their jobs, has not helped the black community.

Being a snowflake and not doing your job of policing because some randos on the internet said some mean things has not helped the black community.

The police are doing their job. And it’s not the rando on the internet who bother them. It’s the cell phone toting protesters who goad them during stressful situations just waiting for the slightest slip up. And recently these protesters have also been ANC commissioners.