So the ANC host MPD at most, if not all of their meetings. What, exactly, would you like an ANC commissioner or a commission to do about crime? They cannot author legislation. They have no executive power, they host MPD to inform the community of the latest crime numbers and enforcement actions. So what more do you want them to do? |
Yet sonehow they were able to influence transportation policy. It seems they're only helpless and powerless on things they don't care about. The upper parts of Connecticut have no effective police coverage (the police station is in glover park while Maryland covers their fire/ems) and have been hit by waves of car break ins and carjackings. Yet silence. |
dP: I believe you forgot the word "not". The 60 meetings were generalized and spread out among them. It was not at all teadily apparent that those meetings were discussing a reduction in transportation capacity. |
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| I would expect at least that our ANC commissioner would not want to defund the police. Unfortunately our ANC commissioner (S. Siddiqui in 3C05) is a vocal proponent of cutting the MPD force and budget. That seems totally tone deaf and out of step with his constituents’ concerns, especially with the rise in violent crime along Connecticut Ave. |
The police station is in Cathedral Heights/McLean Gardens (3320 Idaho Ave NW), not Glover Park. DC and Maryland severed their automatic aid agreement. DC Fire/EMS currently only has a mutual aid agreement with Montgomery County. Mutual aid is where the jurisdictions agree to receive and provide assets on a per-request basis. Automatic aid is where jurisdictions have assets built into their response plans without needing to request and grant permission. Automatic aid agreements are fairly common along state and county borders. My understanding is that the District is wary of the cost of automatic aid and has thus been reluctant to enter into automatic aid agreements. Automatic aid would speed up response time along our borders with Maryland, though the first responders may not necessarily be from DC. |
It wasn't apparent that capacity would not be reduced? Were they just going to have the lanes floating above traffic or something? Perhaps generate more land magically? |
If you read the resolution Commissioner Siddiqui authored that is being labeled "defund" you'd see it only contains support for recommendations made by the Mayor's Police Reform Commission. While he may be trendy and drawing attention to the need to reform MPD in the wake of massively increasing response times, incredibly bloated overtime, and, as the Office of the DC Auditor and WaP have shown, many officers not fit for anything other than desk duty, calling Siddiqui a "defund" candidate lacks nuance and is myopic. |
The bike lanes are what constituents have been demanding meetings about. They have not been demanding meetings about schools or crime. |
No one is “frustrated” by you. You chose to waste your vote on someone who has no chance of winning and threw it away on a tantrum. We roll our eyes at people like you. And no, your nonvotes have nowhere near the numbers to sway an election, so save that predictable retort. |
You know you out yourself as an imbecile every time you type yOuR pRoGrEsSiVe dReAmS, right? |
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I like Frumin. Nice guy and seems to actually listen to people. The republican guy just seems anti-everything.
Plus Frumin is for the CT bike lanes. The anti-bike lane crowd puzzles me (except those that actually live in Maryland - but they don't get a say in our politics - they can just find a job in maryland if they want). I mean CT sucks. the cars traffic kills businesses. |
What is”nuanced” about retweeting “Defund MPD”, dismissing DC residents as “cop lovers” and attacking Matt Frumin for advocating the build MPD levels back up? Sauleh Siddiqui has done all of these. Siddiqui doesn’t represent his constituents, instead pursuing his ideological agenda over his constituents’ needs and concerns. |
And he gets re-elected so maybe you are on the minority on some of these views? |
Ah, the classic you must vote for the candidate who is already going to win because we live in a one-party jurisdiction. |