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I disagree with the PP.  Because it's clear that everyone agrees that there's a place for intervention, and everyone things that the people who actually witnessed the Meitiv children (both times they were reported, by two different people) AND the police AND CPS are all wrong, and they are right about whether there were signs of something being wrong.  And the first poster (and the one who posted about Sweden) who mentioned the 3- and 5-year-old ALSO assumed that it was overreach in that case.  But it provably was not overreach.  [b]The strident, ridiculously insulting tone taken about this toward the police and CPS, whose only goal is to protect kids, is wrong.[/b]  I don't know the truth of the Meitiv situation, and I don't pretend to.  I do know that this is a factually complex situation that's being investigated.  Honestly, of course the Meitivs should have their say --and we all know they do -- but everyone else who thinks they know better should STFU.[/quote]

The police and CPS are public agencies with a lot of potential power (police power, in fact), which they are supposed to wield in all our names. It is therefore extremely important that they do not misuse this power. Did they misuse it in the case of the Meitivs? I think that's a valid question, not an insult.[/quote]

It's a valid question. So is.. Is it reasonable to have a teen curfew in Potomac if all the crime is in Silver Spring. The answer is you don't live in a bubble, you live in a society, with rules, that are for the masses, not you little entitled world.

For the general population a 6 yo can't wander the streets without somebody 13 or older. That is your valid nswer.[/quote]

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