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I wonder where this will go?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/23/dc-police-mental-health-response-lawsuit-justice-department/ CA has made involuntary commitment easier, and Newsome signed it. Better for the individual to get treatment and be stabilized and better for public safety and order. DC seems to be moving in the opposite direction, still. The number of people who are mentally ill and on the streets and the number of people committing crimes are not infinite categories. It's that nothing effective is done re: either group that causes huge amounts of resources to be spent, to little effect. SF is talking about drug testing before benefits - will that drive more vagrants and addicts east? Many jurisdictions still provide a free bus ticket, after all. |
Unfortunately it has become the new normal. Bowser and the DC Council have fostered an environment in which deviancy has been defined down, again and again. |
And you will run to the polls and vote Democrat |
| If someday, 10-15 years from now, things finally start to improve when current leadership is finally wiped out and smarter people are in charge, no one who wasn’t here for The Bloody 20s will believe that carjackings got so bad the mayor reported to suggesting AirTags as the solution. |
Given the no pursuit policy, did this program result in the recovery of any vehicles by the MPD? |
| Separate from no pursuit (vehicles were parked) there was at least one news story @ MPD refusing to go and retrieve car. So, not sure and at the time seemed like something they should clarify. |
| Hopefully President Trump and VP Bannon Will federalize the city |
So the mayor waved a shiny technology toy and the wealthy were appeased. That money could have gone to something useful like wraparound services |
Another useless grift, you mean. |
| Ineffective? It would certainly make things more challenging for organized retail theft rings. |