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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Y’all are going to be treated to 60 minutes of Matt waxing on fondly about his participation in the MPD Community Engagement Academy. Then, there will be like time for two actual questions.  [/quote]

A coworker who was in the MPD CEA w/ Frumkin said he fell asleep during several presentations. No other current council members have attend CEA, so at least he showed up. [/quote]

Nadeau attended some cadet thing recently, she posted about it on Twitter.

Frumin reminds me of Jiminy Cricket, always tilting his head and lowering expectations. He just does not come across as a serious person. I would have voted for Cheh again but remember for all her WORDS against actions like license renewal if many moving violating tickets, she still actually voted for much of it.

She said too much outside the Days Inn after that shooting, about crime, juveniles and vouchers 
 and got huge blow back from the activist crowd. 2 days later it was announced that she would not  run again.

I voted for Goulet, but for Silverman's last minute antics (defended by Racine, her former boss) we might not have Frumin.

Racine really is the hidden hand, are people aware how many on the Council worked for him (with that being their ONLY professional job in some cases)? 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/27/bowser-racine-dc-mayor/

He has long been rumored to be planning a run for mayor. Schwab is his former colleague at Venable and was his handpicked successor. Some of Racine's ideas may be considered outside the mainstream. https://www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-attorney-general-wants-restorative-justice-for-all-juvenile-cases-even-murder

When leaving office he disingenuously referenced the juvenile carjacking epidemic and fears for his girlfriend and their young boys, as though HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. One with the people pose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/23/karl-racine-dc-attorney-general/

Other hidden hands are DSA who has endorsed many members and who turns out large numbers of activists to testify at hearings and DC Justice Lab who does not disclose donors and who wrote much of the crime bill that was struck down by Congress, along with the talking points for it. DCJL have presented at CP ANC meetings. Many of the ANC Commissioners have some pretty extreme views re: equity and public safety.

I don't see things changing any time soon. Home Rule set up the Council so their terms are staggered. Recall is likely not worth the energy, especially when there are no identified electable candidates to replace in unlike event it works. The laws re: juveniles should be reversed but even if that happened, the prosecution rate (which is among, if not the lowest in US) by USAO and only marginally better prosecution rate by AG and the lax judges on both DC SC and COA, many of whom are former public defenders, are much bigger problems.

That the majority of arrests were not being prosecuted was reported by Bowser to Council beginning in 2018 (required) but no attention was brought to by mayor or any on Council, including law professor Cheh, it until the DC Crime Facts account popped up in 2023. Then media picked it up and Congress had an oversight hearing over DC, but, no sustained change. Graves can dial the number up temporarily when he needs to but it soon drops again. I personally think it is the culture of career prosecutors in the office that is at issue, remember JLG was a juvenile prosecutor. https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/politics/black-prosecutors-dc-gun-cases/index.html

So far, no Oversight by the Committee with oversight over DOJ, that is overdue and needed. A focus on needed resources (say using Fed Marshals to serve the 1,000 outstanding warrants), crime lab needs, detailing lawyers with criminal experience who are not ideologically captured instead of newbies who will go along with office culture, changing performance metrics to link to public safety, etc. Right now, dinged if they lose a trial and that incentivizes pleas. Our USAO is the only one who is also the local prosecutor. Regular and vigorous oversight is needed to get back to the 70+% prosecution rate that was the norm before 2017, when the city was safer and more livable. When Contee said that the average murderer has been arrested 11 times before killing, the truth is that MANY of those cases were not prosecuted "no papered." No reason has to be given for that decision or for judges who choose to release killers pretrial. The Council could change that but won't.

The future could hold a far worse on safety mayor, Racine and a largely similar Council, although I do think Gore has a shot. A pubic safety minded candidate for W 7 is key.

We hope to move before then. Here 30 years and glad to have been here during the Fenty years when DC and DCPS were on the upswing. [/quote]

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