Reply to Survey shows overwhelming satisfaction with Montgomery County government and services

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Survey shows overwhelming satisfaction with Montgomery County government and services"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Don't know about others, but I'm satisfied with the County's services, and particularly its Covid response. But then again, we're NIH people, and science and medicine is what we practice every day.[/quote]

I expected residents’ feelings toward the police to be a lot more negative considering the council’s constant vitriol toward MCPD. Perhaps the council needs to reevaluate their rhetoric. [/quote]

First, there's not much vitriol. Second, everyone understands it's political posturing. Third, most people are pro-police in their daily lives when it comes to their cars being broken into and packages stolen off their porch. [/quote]

Then the pro police people better start speaking up.  Political leadership does not support the police department, and the officers are leaving in droves.   They expect a 300 officer shortage in the next year or so.   [/quote]

We all support the police as long as they're not racist and unnecessarily violent. So change their training manuals, increase hiring scrutiny, increase wages to attract better candidates - I'm all for extra funding for the police to change itself! The Park Police particularly has had documented issues with racism within its ranks, as published by WaPo.

[/quote]

There is no indication that local police are racist or unnecessarily violent.   They are CALEA accredited which holds them to higher standards than the State of Maryland.  When any organization is called thousands of times to situations of violence, there will be times they have to use violence themselves to defend themselves or another.  We are the most heavily armed civilian population in the world.  You will not be able to eliminate police violence until you significantly curb the American right to bear arms.  And that likely will never happen.  And I'm as anti-gun as it gets. [/quote]

I mean they stop Black and Hispanic drivers at significantly higher rates than White drivers. National data do not suggest differences in how well people drive based on race, so why is this? None of us can know the answer with certainty, but it certainly raises the question as to how much racial bias impacts policing.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics