We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is an interesting and important thread re: the money behind all of this

So from Ward 6 alone, they raised $25,000 in what … 10 days?

Also why are you surprised that people outside of Ward 6 donated? Allen’s actions have impacted the entire city.

[Anonymous]

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With Allen, don’t expect logic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:


The impact it SHOULD have is for cops to realize that it's not necessary to pin someone to the ground such that they can't breathe, particularly when they aren't armed and weren't resisting. Or to not let someone slam around in the back of a van without a seatbelt. I mean you at least have enough training to not let them hit their heads getting into the back of a cruiser, don'cha?

The impact SHOULD be that maybe cops should take a few minutes out of their day to look at the literal thousands of videos all over Youtube and everywhere else, and the dozens of new ones that get posted every day, which shows cops acting like complete a-holes?

Police really need to work on their reputation and restore community faith and trust in them. But instead police continue to go around acting self righteous, pretending there's no such thing as police abuse, or worse yet, collecting a check but not doing the job.


+ 1000

Curious if the two posters above actually have any experience in law enforcement, or any families members who have worked in law enforcement. My guess is no. And I don't view it as "self righteous" to remind the "defund the police" crowd that when their babies get carjacked in Georgetown, or they get whacked in the back of the head on the National Mall, or when they are innocent bystanders in a U Street shootout, then they actually might need the police . . .

That's completely non-responsive to what the posters above actually posted.

And, regarding your "defund the police" BS here's a reality check for you with some points from another thread:


- DC did not defund MPD. A 2.8% cut does not make that a credible claim.

- DC is not trying to gut MPD staffing. They are offering generous recruitment bonuses.

- DC did not restrict MPD with laws keeping them from doing their jobs.

- DC is not prosecuting MPD officers for doing their jobs. The extremely low prosecution rate of less than 0.2% does not make that a credible claim.

- DC is not trying to hamper prosecutions, their regaining components of accreditation for the Crime Lab shows this.

Could DC do more? Sure. But to claim that DC is defunding police or does not want policing in the face of all of those facts is nothing short of disingenuously idiotic.

DC defunded the police. Why do you keep lying about it now?

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-council-committee-approves-15m-cut-to-police-budget/2344969/

Everyone: do not let people like PP gas-light you.

DC defunded MPD.

DC also imposed a “no pursuit” policy on MPD

DC RAISED the age of a “juvenile offender” from the normal 18 up to age 26

DC decriminalizes Metro fare evasion (and now there is a budget crisis)

DC’s Charles Allen single-handedly lead the 2018 revision to the crime code, and persuaded all the other progressives on the council to go along with him; those revisions hobbled the MPD and drastically reduced penalties for most criminals arrested by MPD, making most arrests pointless (why would MPD even bother with arresting anyone after 2018?).

Don’t be fooled again.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I've heard managers may be involved in some of the CVS robberies too.

Internal or external, all criminal behavior.

[Anonymous]

This is insanity, can't even safely buy groceries in broad daylight

[Anonymous]

Dang. DC native here, and I have to say that I am stunned by things of late.

https://www.popville.com/2024/02/rolex-store-dc-robbed-broad-daylight/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dang. DC native here, and I have to say that I am stunned by things of late.

https://www.popville.com/2024/02/rolex-store-dc-robbed-broad-daylight/

The day is coming soon when there will be nothing to look at in store windows and every thing will be in a vault. How interesting strolling our vibrant commercial districts will be.

[Anonymous]

Tiny Jewel Box robbed today. That is IT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tiny Jewel Box robbed today. That is IT!

The people there are so nice and the store has been in the family for generations. Horrible. It happened in broad daylight in the commercial core at lunchtime, it should be safe, it used to be safe. This is NOT NORMAL FOR DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tiny Jewel Box robbed today. That is IT!

The people there are so nice and the store has been in the family for generations. Horrible. It happened in broad daylight in the commercial core at lunchtime, it should be safe, it used to be safe. This is NOT NORMAL FOR DC.

Insane.

[Anonymous]

Were the Tiny Jewel Box robbers the same as the nearby Rolex robbers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were the Tiny Jewel Box robbers the same as the nearby Rolex robbers?

I was wondering this too..this area below Dupont should be so safe. You can practically touch the white house. Where are DC police? They're invisible..we need so many more, walking the streets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were the Tiny Jewel Box robbers the same as the nearby Rolex robbers?

I was wondering this too..this area below Dupont should be so safe. You can practically touch the white house. Where are DC police? They're invisible..we need so many more, walking the streets

Those kids are under 26. There’s zero point in the police arresting them when they’ll be back out tomorrow to do it again. Hope the just stick to cracking windows and not people’s heads next time. Too bad the people we elected wrote those laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were the Tiny Jewel Box robbers the same as the nearby Rolex robbers?

I was wondering this too..this area below Dupont should be so safe. You can practically touch the white house. Where are DC police? They're invisible..we need so many more, walking the streets

They show up to the scene but can't engage in anything that might be perceived as a pursuit of the robbers else the police be charged with second degree murder. So they take statements, see the getaway car was stolen and ditched in MoCo, then shrug their shoulders.