Is Silver Spring under assault?

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

80’s*

Right. Cold day in hell before I'd send my kid to my publics in SS and let her walk around Wheaton Plaza. No, much has changed.

Lol! My parents would NEVER let me go to Wheaton plaza in the 80’s.

My parents let me go all the time by myself when I was teenager in the 90s. Never had an issue. Was probably safer back then.

Unfortunately the data doesn’t show it was safer. It was safer in the 90’s than it was in the 80’s. There was a steep decline in crime from the 90’s until today. Crime has risen since 2020 but it’s no where close to what it was in the 80’s/90’s.

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This! And I don’t care if stops only get a small amount of guns off the streets. They are off the streets! I’m sure the people who would be harmed by those guns are grateful.

. Of course.you don't care since you are not getting stopped. I break traffic laws all the time and have never been stopped but friends who are fine drivers who have gotten stopped multiple times. Guess what the difference is?

Is their skin color the ONLY difference? Because if it's not, then the assumption that correlation is causation is false.

Are you all the same age?
Did you all drive the same car?
The same number of miles?
The same time of day?
The same days?
The same roads?
The same speed?

that's why men consist of 2/3 of all traffic stops. that's a disparity nobody seems to care about. do you think cops are targeting men? Or maybe there's something else going on there. For one, men drive a lot more miles than women do, so they are more at risk of being seen on the road by a police officer. And therefore more at risk for being pulled over. We won't even get into who speeds more often, who modifies their exhaust more often, who tints their windows more often....

Black people don't speed more often than White people

nobody is talking about speed enforcement being discriminatory. people care about low level violations like busted taillights. [/quot

I got pulled over and ticketed for a broken tail light.

- White person

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This! And I don’t care if stops only get a small amount of guns off the streets. They are off the streets! I’m sure the people who would be harmed by those guns are grateful.

. Of course.you don't care since you are not getting stopped. I break traffic laws all the time and have never been stopped but friends who are fine drivers who have gotten stopped multiple times. Guess what the difference is?

Is their skin color the ONLY difference? Because if it's not, then the assumption that correlation is causation is false.

Are you all the same age?
Did you all drive the same car?
The same number of miles?
The same time of day?
The same days?
The same roads?
The same speed?

that's why men consist of 2/3 of all traffic stops. that's a disparity nobody seems to care about. do you think cops are targeting men? Or maybe there's something else going on there. For one, men drive a lot more miles than women do, so they are more at risk of being seen on the road by a police officer. And therefore more at risk for being pulled over. We won't even get into who speeds more often, who modifies their exhaust more often, who tints their windows more often....

Black people don't speed more often than White people

nobody is talking about speed enforcement being discriminatory. people care about low level violations like busted taillights.

I got pulled over and ticketed for a broken tail light.

- White person

Obviously this proves that racism in policing and police traffic enforcement doesn't exist?????

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This is an absurd excuse for constantly detaining people of color. Please stop with the histrionics. It's pretty clear you have no actual arguments.

You live in a make-believe world. Stop listening to the people who profit off selling the idea that police constantly victimize black people. Police pull people off who are committing offenses, and if they comply with police directions, things almost always turn out fine. Are there exceptions? Sure. But they're exceedingly rare, and happen to people of all races. For example, where are the protests over this event:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/03/03/officer-involved-shooting/

The sad thing is all this nonsense only hurts black people. Black people are disproportionately victimized by these crimes, they own homes in SS whose values don't keep up with Bethesda because of crime, and they own restaurants and other businesses in SS that are affected when people stop wanting to go outside. All because people in the woke mob are so intent on protecting criminals. The criminals express their deepest gratitude for caring so much about their ability to commit carjackings and other crimes without fear of having to do any serious jail time, if they're even caught at all due to a decimated police force.

You all refuse to recognize that police killings of unarmed people (predominantly Black men) are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to abusive policing. You haven't been stopped multiple times while doing nothing illegal, so it doesn't bother you. The real problem here is your inability to empathize with other people. As long as you keep discussing them out of hand, you'll continue to be frustrated as the so called "make believe world" that is very real to many people.

That's not happening in Montgomery County though. Officer involved shootings have been justified. Every suspect has been armed. And/or beating the absolute **** out of a police officer.

If you could prove people are getting stopped when they haven't done anything illegal, people might listen to you. But there is zero evidence of that here in MoCo. This is not 1990.

Robert White was not armed or beating the sh$t out of anyone.

There have absolutely been allegations of MCPD officers stopping people (as a traffic stop or otherwise) who are not committing crimes. I don't know how you say with certainty that it's not happening. For example, this whole ordeal.was caught on camera: https://www.washlaw.org/montgomery-county/

Here are some more stories: https://www.instagram.com/p/COgeX3kBMsJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.instagram.com/p/COgeX3kBMsJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.instagram.com/p/COl5G5NhToN/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Here's the thing: white people get pulled over too for illegitimate reasons. It's happened to me regularly -- not even a warning or ticket despite being pulled over about a dozen times in the past ten years. Police aren't going to be perfect. The question is whether you'd rather have a society in which lawlessness prevails because criminals know that there aren't enough police, and even if they are caught, there won't be any real punishment, or whether you'd rather live in a safe place. Most Americans prioritize safety which is why this is a losing issue for democrats, and it's also why people will pay a hefty premium to live in places that are perceived to be safer. The woke mob isn't doing any favors to all of the black people who are victimized by crime, who live in areas that no one else wants to live in because of crime, and who can't have decent retail in their neighborhoods because of crime. Policing has come a long way (especially with body cameras), so if there is true misconduct, it's harder for police to get away with it.

You view the stories I posted as coming from "the woke mob" and real Black people who themselves are telling you what the impact is on them? The woke mob is not hurting Black people, police are. They doing so by harassing Black people instead of protecting them.

I think there are far more people who care about how crime is destroying neighborhoods than about police harassment. You really think police harassment is a big concern when people fear taking a Saturday trip to the Costco? The criminals are really grateful that you're watching out for them.

I would love for police to not be busy with low level traffic stops, that way they could be stationed in places with repeated carjackings and actually prevent them.

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

She has a right to use the street.

She does not have the right to drive on a street that was presumably closed to traffic with a valid permit.

But wow, did she actually get out of her car and move the barriers??

Did anyone have a copy of the permit for her to see? I am guessing the police didn't cloe the street since they weren't around. Someone without authority just decided to close the street.

Tell us you've never been to the weekly DTSS farmers market without telling us you've never been to the weekly DTSS farmers market.

I don't know. There's some crazy people in our area who think they can just close streets.

In other words you’ve never been to the DTSS farmers market.

Which by the way is fabulous.

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This is an absurd excuse for constantly detaining people of color. Please stop with the histrionics. It's pretty clear you have no actual arguments.

You live in a make-believe world. Stop listening to the people who profit off selling the idea that police constantly victimize black people. Police pull people off who are committing offenses, and if they comply with police directions, things almost always turn out fine. Are there exceptions? Sure. But they're exceedingly rare, and happen to people of all races. For example, where are the protests over this event:

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/03/03/officer-involved-shooting/

The sad thing is all this nonsense only hurts black people. Black people are disproportionately victimized by these crimes, they own homes in SS whose values don't keep up with Bethesda because of crime, and they own restaurants and other businesses in SS that are affected when people stop wanting to go outside. All because people in the woke mob are so intent on protecting criminals. The criminals express their deepest gratitude for caring so much about their ability to commit carjackings and other crimes without fear of having to do any serious jail time, if they're even caught at all due to a decimated police force.

You all refuse to recognize that police killings of unarmed people (predominantly Black men) are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to abusive policing. You haven't been stopped multiple times while doing nothing illegal, so it doesn't bother you. The real problem here is your inability to empathize with other people. As long as you keep discussing them out of hand, you'll continue to be frustrated as the so called "make believe world" that is very real to many people.

That's not happening in Montgomery County though. Officer involved shootings have been justified. Every suspect has been armed. And/or beating the absolute **** out of a police officer.

If you could prove people are getting stopped when they haven't done anything illegal, people might listen to you. But there is zero evidence of that here in MoCo. This is not 1990.

Robert White was not armed or beating the sh$t out of anyone.

There have absolutely been allegations of MCPD officers stopping people (as a traffic stop or otherwise) who are not committing crimes. I don't know how you say with certainty that it's not happening. For example, this whole ordeal.was caught on camera: https://www.washlaw.org/montgomery-county/

Here are some more stories: https://www.instagram.com/p/COgeX3kBMsJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.instagram.com/p/COgeX3kBMsJ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

https://www.instagram.com/p/COl5G5NhToN/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=

Here's the thing: white people get pulled over too for illegitimate reasons. It's happened to me regularly -- not even a warning or ticket despite being pulled over about a dozen times in the past ten years. Police aren't going to be perfect. The question is whether you'd rather have a society in which lawlessness prevails because criminals know that there aren't enough police, and even if they are caught, there won't be any real punishment, or whether you'd rather live in a safe place. Most Americans prioritize safety which is why this is a losing issue for democrats, and it's also why people will pay a hefty premium to live in places that are perceived to be safer. The woke mob isn't doing any favors to all of the black people who are victimized by crime, who live in areas that no one else wants to live in because of crime, and who can't have decent retail in their neighborhoods because of crime. Policing has come a long way (especially with body cameras), so if there is true misconduct, it's harder for police to get away with it.

You view the stories I posted as coming from "the woke mob" and real Black people who themselves are telling you what the impact is on them? The woke mob is not hurting Black people, police are. They doing so by harassing Black people instead of protecting them.

I think there are far more people who care about how crime is destroying neighborhoods than about police harassment. You really think police harassment is a big concern when people fear taking a Saturday trip to the Costco? The criminals are really grateful that you're watching out for them.

I would love for police to not be busy with low level traffic stops, that way they could be stationed in places with repeated carjackings and actually prevent them.

I'm hoping for a lot more automated traffic enforcement, and I mean a lot. Red light cameras, stop sign cameras, speed cameras. All over the county. Automated enforcement is more effective and a better use of police resources than human (police) enforcement for such violations.

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This! And I don’t care if stops only get a small amount of guns off the streets. They are off the streets! I’m sure the people who would be harmed by those guns are grateful.

. Of course.you don't care since you are not getting stopped. I break traffic laws all the time and have never been stopped but friends who are fine drivers who have gotten stopped multiple times. Guess what the difference is?

Is their skin color the ONLY difference? Because if it's not, then the assumption that correlation is causation is false.

Are you all the same age?
Did you all drive the same car?
The same number of miles?
The same time of day?
The same days?
The same roads?
The same speed?

that's why men consist of 2/3 of all traffic stops. that's a disparity nobody seems to care about. do you think cops are targeting men? Or maybe there's something else going on there. For one, men drive a lot more miles than women do, so they are more at risk of being seen on the road by a police officer. And therefore more at risk for being pulled over. We won't even get into who speeds more often, who modifies their exhaust more often, who tints their windows more often....

Black people don't speed more often than White people

How do you know that to be true? The few studies that have been done on this show that black people actually do speed more often than whites:

"The study involved photographing tens of thousands of drivers on the turnpike last spring while clocking speed with a radar gun. It found that black drivers sped much more than other drivers, according to three people who have reviewed the unreleased report. The racial gap was far wider than officials had expected and, in the politically charged controversies over profiling, the data could be used by defenders of the state police to argue that one reason black drivers are stopped more often than whites is that they are more likely to speed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/study-suggests-racial-gap-in-speeding-in-new-jersey.html

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Anonymous wrote:SS has been in decline since the 80s, except the 2000s real estate boom probably put a band aid on it.

The only thing declining since the 90’s is the murder rate

That may be true nationally, and it might even be true for Montgomery County, but residents of DTSS got together a few weeks ago to examine data and found violent crimes have genuinely surged in the area. Lack of police presence is a big part of it. Despite promises to increase the presence in DTSS, I've seen no evidence of it. I literally watched a woman in a big pickup truck drive THROUGH the farmer's market yesterday, moving two "gates" to avoid going around a single additional block, and cops were nowhere to be found.

MCPD is very understaffed and they are struggling to bring in new recruits, so officers will be hard to find right now. This is coming after a council push to limit police interactions with the public. (See council task force recommendations to reduce police in Wheaton and Silver Spring by 50%.) The tide seems to be turning away from the council’s strong anti-police sentiments of the last couple of years, but it is going to take time to get the department back to its former numbers.

The increased availability of guns is a big issue and there is no real strategy to address it besides apparently catching them randomly during traffic stops and putting out press releases about it. I don't have any faith that will reduce the am on it but of guns out there.

If you are concerned about guns, then speak out against Jawando and Mink’s current bill. MCPD finds guns on traffic stops, including the type of stops Mink and Jawando want to end. Is it enough? Of course not, especially with ghost guns flooding the area. But it’s something. Also look into stricter penalties for having guns. Police can arrest, but offenders are out almost immediately.

Addressing guns will take more officers, more support for officers, and more of a targeted effort from the council.

They need to do so many stops to catch a very small number of guns. No I don't think this is a good use of resources. This is a supply issue. You can lock up someone for having a gun, and get that one gun off the street. With the amount if guns out there the impact of this is minimal.

Whatever you think of these traffic stops, bills like this send the wrong message. Criminals clearly understand that moco is on their side, and I think that’s an accurate assessment.

This! And I don’t care if stops only get a small amount of guns off the streets. They are off the streets! I’m sure the people who would be harmed by those guns are grateful.

. Of course.you don't care since you are not getting stopped. I break traffic laws all the time and have never been stopped but friends who are fine drivers who have gotten stopped multiple times. Guess what the difference is?

Is their skin color the ONLY difference? Because if it's not, then the assumption that correlation is causation is false.

Are you all the same age?
Did you all drive the same car?
The same number of miles?
The same time of day?
The same days?
The same roads?
The same speed?

that's why men consist of 2/3 of all traffic stops. that's a disparity nobody seems to care about. do you think cops are targeting men? Or maybe there's something else going on there. For one, men drive a lot more miles than women do, so they are more at risk of being seen on the road by a police officer. And therefore more at risk for being pulled over. We won't even get into who speeds more often, who modifies their exhaust more often, who tints their windows more often....

Black people don't speed more often than White people

How do you know that to be true? The few studies that have been done on this show that black people actually do speed more often than whites:

"The study involved photographing tens of thousands of drivers on the turnpike last spring while clocking speed with a radar gun. It found that black drivers sped much more than other drivers, according to three people who have reviewed the unreleased report. The racial gap was far wider than officials had expected and, in the politically charged controversies over profiling, the data could be used by defenders of the state police to argue that one reason black drivers are stopped more often than whites is that they are more likely to speed."

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/21/nyregion/study-suggests-racial-gap-in-speeding-in-new-jersey.html

Really? You're.citing a 20 year old news article about an unreleased report?

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You better call your legislators.

This makes no sense. Democrats believe that 16 YO (and under) are old enough and mature enough to vote and to make life changing decisions about "transitioning," but they are not old enough to k now that murder is wrong and to be held accountable for their actions?

[Anonymous]

When people make reference how bad Maryland Drivers, is that code for black people? I live in Montgomery, but work in PG. The driving in PG is much worse in Montgomery in my experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You better call your legislators.

This makes no sense. Democrats believe that 16 YO (and under) are old enough and mature enough to vote and to make life changing decisions about "transitioning," but they are not old enough to k now that murder is wrong and to be held accountable for their actions?

You should read up on what "felony murder" is. It's not murder. It's when you didn't kill anybody, but they charge you with murder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people make reference how bad Maryland Drivers, is that code for black people? I live in Montgomery, but work in PG. The driving in PG is much worse in Montgomery in my experience.

I don't think so.

Also, the road conditions are even more encouraging for dangerous driving in Prince George's than in Montgomery. That probably explains most of it, if not all of it.

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Anonymous wrote:It is scary. The Wheaton carjacking/ shooting suspect was chased on foot into my Kensington neighborhood today, but was caught within an hour, according to NBC4.

I used to be fine with going to the Wheaton Target, but this is I believe the eighth carjacking at the mall since December.

Yeah this one unnerved me- I was there, parked in the surface lot by Target/Costco, with my 4yo right around that time. We must have left right before it happened. Does the county government even recognize this as a problem? You should feel unsafe taking your kids shopping during the daylight hours, but this really makes me reconsider whether I should.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When people make reference how bad Maryland Drivers, is that code for black people? I live in Montgomery, but work in PG. The driving in PG is much worse in Montgomery in my experience.

I don't think so.

Also, the road conditions are even more encouraging for dangerous driving in Prince George's than in Montgomery. That probably explains most of it, if not all of it.

Thanks for replying. I can certainly see people taking advantages, especially impatient ones, of the longer stretches especially in the northern parts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is scary. The Wheaton carjacking/ shooting suspect was chased on foot into my Kensington neighborhood today, but was caught within an hour, according to NBC4.

I used to be fine with going to the Wheaton Target, but this is I believe the eighth carjacking at the mall since December.

Yeah this one unnerved me- I was there, parked in the surface lot by Target/Costco, with my 4yo right around that time. We must have left right before it happened. Does the county government even recognize this as a problem? You should feel unsafe taking your kids shopping during the daylight hours, but this really makes me reconsider whether I should.

I feel as if they are turning a blind eye to this. They’re not talking about it they want to pretend like it is not happening. Their focus is on everything, but this.