Why are there tens if not hundreds of dudes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you’re dealing drugs with a handgun tucked in your waist or if you’re a known drug dealer all you have to do is drive away and the police can’t pursue. They charged a policeman with murder because the perp decided to speed away on his moped and drive into traffic.

Why would anyone want to be a cop in DC.

Because it's a freeloading gig, only requires h.s. diploma, and you can easily milk overtime and make over $100,000 if not $150,000 a year and then retire with a full pension & platinum health care for life in your 50s? People grossly exaggerate the danger of being a cop. And no cop is in some violent ghetto for decades, at most you do that crap when you're a rookie for a year or two, then you job hop to a freeloading desk job or out to the cozy suburbs.

DC requires 60 undergrad credit hours, or an AA.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

60 whole hours?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re dealing drugs with a handgun tucked in your waist or if you’re a known drug dealer all you have to do is drive away and the police can’t pursue. They charged a policeman with murder because the perp decided to speed away on his moped and drive into traffic.

Why would anyone want to be a cop in DC.

Because it's a freeloading gig, only requires h.s. diploma, and you can easily milk overtime and make over $100,000 if not $150,000 a year and then retire with a full pension & platinum health care for life in your 50s? People grossly exaggerate the danger of being a cop. And no cop is in some violent ghetto for decades, at most you do that crap when you're a rookie for a year or two, then you job hop to a freeloading desk job or out to the cozy suburbs.

DC requires 60 undergrad credit hours, or an AA.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

60 whole hours?

You’re aware that hours and credit hours are different, right?

[Anonymous]

Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re dealing drugs with a handgun tucked in your waist or if you’re a known drug dealer all you have to do is drive away and the police can’t pursue. They charged a policeman with murder because the perp decided to speed away on his moped and drive into traffic.

Why would anyone want to be a cop in DC.

Because it's a freeloading gig, only requires h.s. diploma, and you can easily milk overtime and make over $100,000 if not $150,000 a year and then retire with a full pension & platinum health care for life in your 50s? People grossly exaggerate the danger of being a cop. And no cop is in some violent ghetto for decades, at most you do that crap when you're a rookie for a year or two, then you job hop to a freeloading desk job or out to the cozy suburbs.

DC requires 60 undergrad credit hours, or an AA.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

NP. That's not true. The 60 undergrad credit hours are not necessary if you have 2 years of prior military or police experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re dealing drugs with a handgun tucked in your waist or if you’re a known drug dealer all you have to do is drive away and the police can’t pursue. They charged a policeman with murder because the perp decided to speed away on his moped and drive into traffic.

Why would anyone want to be a cop in DC.

Because it's a freeloading gig, only requires h.s. diploma, and you can easily milk overtime and make over $100,000 if not $150,000 a year and then retire with a full pension & platinum health care for life in your 50s? People grossly exaggerate the danger of being a cop. And no cop is in some violent ghetto for decades, at most you do that crap when you're a rookie for a year or two, then you job hop to a freeloading desk job or out to the cozy suburbs.

DC requires 60 undergrad credit hours, or an AA.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

NP. That's not true. The 60 undergrad credit hours are not necessary if you have 2 years of prior military or police experience.

Sorry, here are the requirements. https://www.nationaltestingnetwork.com/publicsafetyjobs/fullJobDetails.cfm?agentid=477&jobid=1&agencyjobid=702

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

The last time I saw one of these parades of morons on dirt bikes and ATVs, they were doing their thing by Audi Field, as thousands of people were streaming into a soccer match. These low-lifes decided that would be a great time to speed down Potomac Avenue. I don't know if they're stupid, malicious, or both.

And the DC police stood around like idiots, rather than arresting as many of these guys as they could, and confiscating their toys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re dealing drugs with a handgun tucked in your waist or if you’re a known drug dealer all you have to do is drive away and the police can’t pursue. They charged a policeman with murder because the perp decided to speed away on his moped and drive into traffic.

Why would anyone want to be a cop in DC.

Because it's a freeloading gig, only requires h.s. diploma, and you can easily milk overtime and make over $100,000 if not $150,000 a year and then retire with a full pension & platinum health care for life in your 50s? People grossly exaggerate the danger of being a cop. And no cop is in some violent ghetto for decades, at most you do that crap when you're a rookie for a year or two, then you job hop to a freeloading desk job or out to the cozy suburbs.

DC requires 60 undergrad credit hours, or an AA.

I’m so embarrassed for you.

60 whole hours?

You’re aware that hours and credit hours are different, right?

No, she’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

Talk like that will get you labeled a racist by white people who are experts on labeling people as racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Whipping around on the streets of DC on motorbikes, quads and atvs doing wheelies while going 60 miles an hour, blowing through redlights, and cutting people off?

Seen it multiple times. Do we have a local police force?

This is a cultural thing. You need to stop judging and deal with it.

You need to stop defending people who put lives in danger.

Can anyone elaborate on the bolded part please?

It pretty much means that if you are black and poor in the city you have carte blanche to terrorize other tax paying citizens and the inept mayor will do nothing about it. It is the reason police are leaving the city in droves, why bother?

Okay? More like it’s a traditional and recognition that there are limited avenues for kids to have fun in ways that are not over regulated and literally policed. While certainly it’s illegal and a public safety hazard the determination is that they are going to keep allowing the kids to express themselves and do it until someone gets seriously hurt.

Stupid gentrifiers.

Stop complaining! Stop muting DC! Stop with your cultural annihilation. People in this town should be free to blast Rare Essence, smoking blunts and pulling wheelies on stolen Yamaha YZ-80’s at all hours of the night! Better ask somebody!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

About 90% of what you wrote is stuff that people driving cars do also. I wish we'd work on that with even half the gusto you have for cracking down on ATV riders.

[Anonymous]

How bizarre that 60 hours is being lauded as an education. Who are these people posting here? They certainly aren't from DC professionals as all of us view a BA or BS as a HS diploma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

About 90% of what you wrote is stuff that people driving cars do also. I wish we'd work on that with even half the gusto you have for cracking down on ATV riders.

You routinely see drivers in cars jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic on purpose? Where do you live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Whipping around on the streets of DC on motorbikes, quads and atvs doing wheelies while going 60 miles an hour, blowing through redlights, and cutting people off?

Seen it multiple times. Do we have a local police force?

This is a cultural thing. You need to stop judging and deal with it.

You need to stop defending people who put lives in danger.

Can anyone elaborate on the bolded part please?

Yes. Sleazy unemployed drug culture. Cops are punished for doing anything. But hey, not PC to say anything, right? Start looking outside the district, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Imagine being over 25 yet still so immature you're doing wheelies on a dirt bike in a city.

Utterly pathetic. I bet they spent more time trying to learn how to do that than learning in school, a trade, or some other valuable life skill that'd pay them a decent salary. I bet they're the same kind of losers that would complain about the system being 'rigged' and that they deserve govt hands outs for UBI.

How about no. Spend you're time learning something useful you ass clowns.

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only in DC would riding ATVs at high speeds through busy parts of the city be deemed harmless or an "expression of personal freedom" that cannot be curtailed. These guys jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic or the wrong way down one-way streets. I see it frequently in my neighborhood. This isn't a nice, peaceful Sunday drive. They are out to get attention and wreak havoc. It's dangerous, illegal and needs to be stopped.

About 90% of what you wrote is stuff that people driving cars do also. I wish we'd work on that with even half the gusto you have for cracking down on ATV riders.

You routinely see drivers in cars jump sidewalks and ride into oncoming traffic on purpose? Where do you live?

Near Georgia Ave. I don't really care if they do it on purpose or through negligence.

If we completely shut the street to cars and allowed the ATV guys free access it would be a significant increase in safety for me and my kids.

I'm not a fan of what they're doing, but people driving cars are a much bigger hazard that isn't being dealt with.