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

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02/08/2024 13:44

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

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure I agree DC has hit bottom and is rebounding but lots of good data here

https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/bouncing-back-from-rock-bottom

I was just going to post that. Whomever putting that together deserves a lot of thanks. It's a must read for all of us.

Eh, there’s a lot of blind person touching an elephant here. Maybe they’re right, but if it turns out that the real explanation is just crime goes up in the summer crime goes down in the winter, this post is going to age like milk, and they will look pretty foolish.

The numbers in regards to the MPD and the USAO both choosing to not doing their jobs is damning.

It absolutely is damning. And nothing in the SecureDC bill will address it.

I think it is fairly clear MPD chooses not to do their jobs. USAO at least has one partial excuse- MPD brings bad cases they can't prosecute.

MPD needs far, far more scrutiny. They whine about the defund movement but that was nearly four years ago. It is not the only reason, if a reason at all, that they aren't doing their jobs. There have been numerous stories and testimony about MPD not doing anything when confronted with crime.

Oh, it's the more recent police reform legislation? I have yet to see concrete examples in the quantity it would take to explain their dismal arrest rates.

So basically MPD leadership- I am not going to impugn the rank-and-file - has instituted a culture where they won't do their jobs if they object to Council legislation. Outrageous. It sounds like Chief Smith is trying to change it and I hope she does.

This. All this. Some heads probably need to roll in MPD. In no other branch of government workers would we tolerate people purposely not doing their jobs AND then rubbing it in the faces of the taxpayers.

This is what you voted for. Hope you don’t get shot.

Nobody voted for MPD leadership to tell its people to stop doing their job. Heck, we don't even have a say in what the USAO does. We did unfortunately vote for the people that didn't care that MPD and the USAO had stopped doing their jobs.

You voted for people who wanted the MOD and USAO to stop doing their jobs and were willing to work to make that happen. They did not do this in secret and everyone knew exactly what they were voting for.

Nobody did that. You're just trying to make this some partisan thing. Our elected officials are just as stupid as everybody else's. Like everyone else's they care more about performative stunts, publicity, special interest groups and posturing than policy. They suck, that is true. They passed some really stupid laws without thinking the consequences through. But what MPD and the USAO did in 2022-2023 is on them.

Once the cops saw DC juries will convict them for murder because a criminal sucks at driving, public safety was over in DC.

Keep thinking that.

I don’t believe Washingtonians want this.

Kindness and empathy will solve our issues.

Everyone just needs to get along.

Enough clearly do. And most of the rest are happy to enable them.

It’s why we are a national crime outlier.

We're a national crime outlier because our police went on strike at the same time as the prosecutor's imposed on us also stopped doing their job.

The fed prosecutors office has issued no doubt, but let’s not pretend that the juvenile justice system under Racine and Brian “kids are kids” Schwalb has served us any better. Does anyone think juvenile justice is working in the city? It’s not like crimes are committed for the first time only after individuals turn 18. The farm system is strong.

This. And that benefits the poverty pimps and poverty/crime industrial complex. Why does it have such a stranglehold on the Council? Why do they feel so untouchable? At a time of soaring crime and international stories about DC being an outlier, why did they enshrine in LAW, in the Secure DC bill, that the Council's appointee to the Sentencing Commission, must, every time henceforth, be someone who was formerly incarcerated?