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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like the police are well-funded, so what's the issue? Prosecutors failing to prosecute? Police failing to arrest? Lenient sentencing? Lenient bonds?[/quote]

Charles Allen, Brianne Nadeau, et al. froze police hiring in 2020. Following the riots and Insurrection, retirement eligible veterans left the force. The Council took a strong anti-law enforcement stance and passed legislation prohibiting pursuits and making police personnel records public. Meanwhile, the USAO and Superior Court judges stayed home for 2 years, meaning arrests for gun and other violent crimes went unprosecuted. Racine and Schwalb were and are unapologetic in their stance that there should not be any consequences for juvenile crime. In this environment, MPD staffing shrunk to its lowest levels in 50 years, and even if applicants wanted to go to DC with a hostile Council and prosecutors who don’t prosecute, with a year-long background/training cycle, it will be years before staffing returns to its pre-pandemic level.[/quote]

^^ most accurate narrative here thus far. It tracks with what we’ve heard from two different police officials in the city. Talk to people in law enforcement to understand what’s happening to them, what they see and experience, rather than getting into divisive speculation. That way we can identify and fix problems. And it’s useful for engaging local officials - stats on how many police officers there are now, stats on what gets prosecuted, stats on how many ppl across the city have been victim to gun violence, etc. it’s harder for them to shrug you off that way. [/quote]

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