More crime… when will the attacks stop? Everyday - on metro, everywhere same type of attacks -

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Anonymous wrote:Violent crime is actually on a decades long decline. Media loves to sensationalize and that leads to the perception that it is growing.

It has increased on the metro. Metro used to be super safe.

+1.

It also used to work reliably.

Deadbeats in Virginia and Maryland need to fund Metro. Congress also needs to step up or slow DC to impose a commuter tax. And perhaps sham private gun sales and lack of registration and effective regulations aren't helping things here in DC, but I digress.

[Anonymous]

Before the summer is over somebody gonna straight up drop dead on Metro, watch. Some stressed out hyperparanoid compulsive worrier with an anxiety disorder is gonna be on a platform and as soon as the recording says, "Doors opening", they're gonna keel over from feeding into this mass panic y'all trying to spread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before the summer is over somebody gonna straight up drop dead on Metro, watch. Some stressed out hyperparanoid compulsive worrier with an anxiety disorder is gonna be on a platform and as soon as the recording says, "Doors opening", they're gonna keel over from feeding into this mass panic y'all trying to spread.

No, not this summer. It won't be running, nobody will be on it. This fall or winter, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:i can't imagine why anyone would be on the street at 17th and I at 2 in the morning on Saturday.

That comes perilously close to blaming the victim. I can't believe that there are so many apologists for violent crime here.

Totally with you, PP. The responses here are bizarro (move, what were they doing out?, it's a blip, etc.). Sometimes I feel like DCUM exists for the contrarians. They can argue about anything. Anyway, for anyone who hasn't discovered this in life...perception is reality. I personally think the stats exist that support the assertion that violent crime is on the rise and the violent crime in and around METRO is as well. That face (or perception, if you wish) is impacting whether people use the METRO system at all. Add an uptick in violent crime to ridiculous prices and mechanical safety issues and you get decreased ridership from people who have other options. That's a problem for our city.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i can't imagine why anyone would be on the street at 17th and I at 2 in the morning on Saturday.

That comes perilously close to blaming the victim. I can't believe that there are so many apologists for violent crime here.

Totally with you, PP. The responses here are bizarro (move, what were they doing out?, it's a blip, etc.). Sometimes I feel like DCUM exists for the contrarians. They can argue about anything. Anyway, for anyone who hasn't discovered this in life...perception is reality. I personally think the stats exist that support the assertion that violent crime is on the rise and the violent crime in and around METRO is as well. That face (or perception, if you wish) is impacting whether people use the METRO system at all. Add an uptick in violent crime to ridiculous prices and mechanical safety issues and you get decreased ridership from people who have other options. That's a problem for our city.

I guess we get to see how those pother options work out when SafeTrack rolls out this weekend.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Most teens are by definition juveniles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

Rimjob defense attorney? That must have been interesting. If you're so concerned, please reach out to one of any number of community resources. You know, like MPD (I assume you know where the District station is located) or your PSA liaison. There's also the ANC and MOCRS liaison. There's also community listservs and the Current. Let us know what you find out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Violent crime is actually on a decades long decline. Media loves to sensationalize and that leads to the perception that it is growing.

Sadly, that long term trend is reversing. I believe that a lot of the long decline was the result of demographic trends that are no longer pointing in a favorable direction. (For example, an increasing number of young men are not on track to full time employment at an income that can support 1/2 of the rent on an apartment in the city where they live.)

The lazy attitude that things are better than they were 20 years ago will ensure that crime will continue to creep up. Broad social action is required (figuring out how to match up our young people with the employment demands of the workplace) as well as specific tactics to address crime on the metro (actually reporting the crimes is a start, hi-def cameras and strategies to catch the bad guys and educating riders to reduce property crimes of opportunity)

Dismissing the experience of the victims and excusing the behavior of the perpetrators is embarrassing.

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

Rimjob defense attorney? That must have been interesting. If you're so concerned, please reach out to one of any number of community resources. You know, like MPD (I assume you know where the District station is located) or your PSA liaison. There's also the ANC and MOCRS liaison. There's also community listservs and the Current. Let us know what you find out.

That was intended to read "criminal defense attorney" and got garbled by my phones dictation function. More importantly, I don't work for you and do not need to report back to you. I well know the resources available, and I am an active community member on these types of issues. Your condescension in dismissing the previous poster's concern as pearl clutching was of obnoxious and only detracts from the sad facts on the ground.