AG Racine Sues Two MPD Officer for Residency Fraud

[Anonymous]

I'm so glad I voted for Racine!

[Anonymous]

How did they get the children enrolled at Eaton in the first place? Did the oldest get in out of bounds using the NE property address and then they pupil-placed the younger two?

[Anonymous]

One of the TV stations reported on this last night and mentioned that the family sued a tenant for nonpayment of rent in 2007. Which probably helped document that the NE apt couldn't actually be the family's home.

If I had a dollar for every person who told me that we should just buy an income apt IB for Deal while still living in our house EOTP school so our kids could attend. Most thought it was perfectly legal bc one would be paying taxes to the city regardless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a good move, make it public
A few years ago, Wilson had to forfeit sports championships as athletes were residency cheaters.

Happened at Dunbar too.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was friends with their daughter. She was a very nice child. They did it so that they could be assured of her safety. It is all good to gloat but these are people's lives.

Many of have no clue how many hours a police work or how difficult their hours and child care can be.

Thank you for this. It is important to remember that real people are involved and, in this case, apparently two people whose jobs are to protect the very neighborhoods in which many of our posters live.

I tend to agree.

How about a law providing discounted DCPS tuition to certain types of DC-employed public servants? Police, firefighters, teachers. We want these folks invested in DC beyond their jobs, and many of them can't afford to live in the city where they work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was friends with their daughter. She was a very nice child. They did it so that they could be assured of her safety. It is all good to gloat but these are people's lives.

Many of have no clue how many hours a police work or how difficult their hours and child care can be.

Thank you for this. It is important to remember that real people are involved and, in this case, apparently two people whose jobs are to protect the very neighborhoods in which many of our posters live.

I tend to agree.

How about a law providing discounted DCPS tuition to certain types of DC-employed public servants? Police, firefighters, teachers. We want these folks invested in DC beyond their jobs, and many of them can't afford to live in the city where they work.

This might be a bad example of that since they owned both a house and a rental property. I'd rather provide subsidized housing to police, firefighters, teachers, etc. so that they can live in the area.

[Anonymous]

No way- they can commute to their jobs and send their children to school like everyone else. There is no excuse for breaking the law.

[Anonymous]

The are home purchase incentives for certain professions but it has gotten so expensive that you can hardly afford to live here with the incentives.

And exactly, where would this subsidized housing be located? I would hope that it would be equally dispersed throughout the city and adjusted based upon the rates in that neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Should all federal workers receive subsidized housing in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way- they can commute to their jobs and send their children to school like everyone else. There is no excuse for breaking the law.

I'm not saying you don't prosecute violators. I'm suggesting a way to give a certain type of public servant--someone provides a crucial, visible service to the city--a benefit that allows them to become even more involved in DC community life. I love seeing MPD parents in uniform at our school; it makes me feel a little safer, and I have to believe that being personally involved in the community they police makes them better cops.

Giving those public servants access to DCPS at a discounted rate seems like a win-win to me.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:Should all federal workers receive subsidized housing in DC?

The proper analogy would be should federal workers receive subsidized house in the United States. If large numbers of federal employees were forced to live in Canada, Mexico, or Haiti in order to afford housing, that might be a reasonable proposal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My daughter was friends with their daughter. She was a very nice child. They did it so that they could be assured of her safety. It is all good to gloat but these are people's lives.

Many of have no clue how many hours a police work or how difficult their hours and child care can be.

Thank you for this. It is important to remember that real people are involved and, in this case, apparently two people whose jobs are to protect the very neighborhoods in which many of our posters live.

I tend to agree.

How about a law providing discounted DCPS tuition to certain types of DC-employed public servants? Police, firefighters, teachers. We want these folks invested in DC beyond their jobs, and many of them can't afford to live in the city where they work.

This might be a bad example of that since they owned both a house and a rental property. I'd rather provide subsidized housing to police, firefighters, teachers, etc. so that they can live in the area.

There was a program called "Officer Next Door" and "Teacher Next Door" that provided grants or subsidies for such professions in DC. There are about 4 officers in my neighborhood whom lived here for serveral years.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way- they can commute to their jobs and send their children to school like everyone else. There is no excuse for breaking the law.

I'm not saying you don't prosecute violators. I'm suggesting a way to give a certain type of public servant--someone provides a crucial, visible service to the city--a benefit that allows them to become even more involved in DC community life. I love seeing MPD parents in uniform at our school; it makes me feel a little safer, and I have to believe that being personally involved in the community they police makes them better cops.

Giving those public servants access to DCPS at a discounted rate seems like a win-win to me.

I agree with the sentiment, but like an earlier poster I think that approaching this through housing incentives is preferable.

[Anonymous]

This case is different because the family DID own a home in the District, which means they could afford to live here.

They may have wanted a larger home, so off to VA and MD they went.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No way- they can commute to their jobs and send their children to school like everyone else. There is no excuse for breaking the law.

I'm not saying you don't prosecute violators. I'm suggesting a way to give a certain type of public servant--someone provides a crucial, visible service to the city--a benefit that allows them to become even more involved in DC community life. I love seeing MPD parents in uniform at our school; it makes me feel a little safer, and I have to believe that being personally involved in the community they police makes them better cops.

Giving those public servants access to DCPS at a discounted rate seems like a win-win to me.

I agree with the sentiment, but like an earlier poster I think that approaching this through housing incentives is preferable.

Sure--I agree, in theory. The schools approach just seems a little easier to establish/administer and gives folks who've already settled outside the city a benefit/opportunity to get involved.

But, yes, providing an incentive to live in the city in the first place would be ideal.