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[Anonymous]

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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.

In the current environment no police officer is going to intervene in a property crime in progress that will almost certainly result in a struggle and need to use nonlethal force at a minimum. All while surrounded by kids recording the event. Best case scenario is the officer and his family get doxed and the perpetrators get invited to the White House. Worse case scenario is another summer of burning cities with $4B in damage. We brought this on ourselves.

[Anonymous]

For those of us who live in the area, our county council member is Andrew Friedson for District 1, reachable at the following address:

[e-mail]

While posting online is of course a legitimate way to discuss the issue, I would encourage any constituents to email concerns there as well, to ensure that our elected officials are informed that this issue is of concern to many. If they don’t understand how much this bothers people, it’s hard to expect them to take any action.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.

Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.

[Anonymous]

To everyone criticizing the police, let me share this. I am a DC resident who, in a day of loathing for my current job, saw that MPD was offering $20k signing bonuses. So I was like, hmm, ok, I'll play, and went to the website.
Do you know what the average MPD salary is? It's $65k/year.
LOL!!!!!! You want people to risk their lives for 65k a year? No wonder they won;t do anything. I'd sit in my damn squad car and play candy crush too. Hell no.
So until you start compensating people appropriately, you cannot wonder why they are ineffective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/LorenzoHall/status/1656439094472212480/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1656439094472212480¤tTweetUser=LorenzoHall

What will it take to stop this trash from entering our communities?

Why can we arrest them and lock them up to maximum sentences to scare others.

I highly doubt these idiots are armed.

Wouldn’t be so sure about that last part. Sure looks like something is stuck in his waistband -

[Anonymous]

Feel free to move to Vienna or McLean. We have better schools, lower taxes, and police that don't tolerate criminal destruction of our community

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feel free to move to Vienna or McLean. We have better schools, lower taxes, and police that don't tolerate criminal destruction of our community

that's because you're not adjacent to the DC boarder. The river helps.

There also isn't crime in Potomac...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.

Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.

You're acting like the standard that people are expecting of police is really high, when in fact folks just want police to stop harassing and killing innocent people. These incidents are not cases of police being harassed and then losing their cool. Don't be so disrespectful.

[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?

MoCo dispatch is cached on the internet. You can monitor radio call chatter essentially in real time.

[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

Start with consequences, law and order.

Theft is illegal.

Police need to do their jobs- get there fast, get crooks into legal system, gPs tracked, consequences.

Judicial system needs teeth.

Mass media needs to publicize all crimes and crooks and details. Stop hiding facts and trends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This can be concurrent or a last step.

No one is “making” some thug ransack stores every day. They are choosing to do it because they are unethical and immoral.

Then discuss how and why nothing or no one is stopping them. Lastly try to get online marketplaces to not allow fraud and stolen goods. But don’t get fixated on that while your neighbors kid is getting hit on the road by stolen vehicles going 50 in a 25. Focus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.

Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.

The people who find this now normalized (in liberal cities) disrespect and misbehavior need to speak up and support law enforcement and tough laws and judges.

Is Bethesda sick of stolen cars, packages, looted stores, racing crime vehicles and going to demand consequences? Including slamming a repeat crook onto the sidewalk with a zapper and cuffing them, bringing them in for a month and then community service, gps, record?

Seems like Bethesda let friendship heights go to krap. And they’re carburetors, cars, Amazon deliveries. Now their retails stores are under attack.

Waving your ringcam feed around again or this stuff and not contacting police, local and state electorate is silly.

[Anonymous]

Listen to all of you fools hyping each other up over your armchair theories!

The reality is that the crime was over in mere seconds and the police can’t always get to places that fast. Police also prioritize life threatening situations like domestic violence, vehicle accidents, assaults and fentanyl. The MoCo police are not just ignoring crime despite the ignorant crap spewed here daily.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.

Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.

The people who find this now normalized (in liberal cities) disrespect and misbehavior need to speak up and support law enforcement and tough laws and judges.

Is Bethesda sick of stolen cars, packages, looted stores, racing crime vehicles and going to demand consequences? Including slamming a repeat crook onto the sidewalk with a zapper and cuffing them, bringing them in for a month and then community service, gps, record?

Seems like Bethesda let friendship heights go to krap. And they’re carburetors, cars, Amazon deliveries. Now their retails stores are under attack.

Waving your ringcam feed around again or this stuff and not contacting police, local and state electorate is silly.

Give it up already. The data proves that crime is up nationwide and in rural red districts as well. You are just another MoCo bashing troll.

[Anonymous]

Weak deflection PP.