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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question is, where is the prevention work that Bowser should be doing with city agencies and if it is being done, can we conclude it doesn’t work? Bowser seems to conclude that prevention does not work because she now says she wants to lock them up. But she’s has been very passive about crime during her entire tenure, probably because she inherited a low crime situation and does realize or understand what leadership she needs to bring to the table. She also just wants to pass the buck.

The other question is why isn’t Contee positioning more[b] officers in plainclothes[/b], undercover, working with informants, etc to target these criminals? This is what bothers me the most, because Bowser is good at making excuses and her chief excuse over and over is that these criminals are from Maryland.  But the vast majority are not. I saw some study that the vast majority of crimes in DC are committed by people with live within a one mile radius of each other. That should actually make early intervention, deterrence and investigations easier. And yet…

I get that the council passed these laws for juvenile offenders. But what I don’t see is the connection between that and city government and MPD failures. All I see is finger pointing and it bodes ill for the future. [/quote]

I am not a fan of Bowser, esp. densification. However, the city offers a TON of services. The one failing is that she has pushed ending homelessness and placement, but city agencies MUST monitor and provide services to "the placed"-and no one sees that being done. So yes, she needs to address that.

Once a crime has been committed, it's out of her hands and up to the Council and the AG.  The Council has been weakening criminal penalties, but not increasing rehabiltative serviecs, so they basically suck. They have also attempted great and succeeded in some defunding of police. She has spoken out against all these measures to weaken policing. The AG dismisses gun crimes on the reg, and the police chief and Bowser have spoken out against this. For an anti-gun city, the AG office dismiss way too many gun charges by actual criminals.

As to officers in plainsclothes--LOL, the police aren't allowed to do ANYTHING to "target" criminals and none of the cameras in DC work for anything but tickets. As to that, the tickets are not being paid by MD + VA residents anyway and we are making no attempt to collect or boot out of staters. The Council AND Mayor need to address this.[/quote]

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