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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are the press releases regarding all murders:

https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Police_Filter.aspx?cat=homicide&id=47

I looked through some of them, and of the crimes that had been solved, they were not random -- seemed to be one family member shooting another, two people who knew each other getting into a fight, etc. I'm not even sure how to go about preventing stuff like that. But perhaps the PPs who think this is about "political choices" have some ideas.[/quote]

I’m sure if you drilled down into any jurisdiction’s murder records you’d find cases like these. Is your argument that because of cases like these jurisdictions should just throw up their hands and not care about stopping violent crime in general? I don’t see your point. [/quote]

My point is that it would be helpful to understand what practical solutions people propose to address crimes like these. You can't just say "more police" because if someone is going to kill their family inside their home, more police won't do anything to help that. Almost all of the murders were from fights where the people knew each other, and were not random. What is the solution? It's a serious question to try to make this discussion more productive, as opposed to just random ranting.[/quote]

A serious response would be to emulate what Arlington did when they brought their murders down from 56 murders from 1990-1995 to 9 murders from 2020-2025 (with 0 in 2021) even though their population grew from 170,000 in 1990 to 244,000 today.

I’m sure economic development and addressing Central American gang violence would be two of the many factors in this rapid decline, but I am interested in hearing from anyone who was in Arlington government around that time to see what they did to get these results.[/quote]

You are making a specific claim -- that Arlington elected officials took specific policy actions that should be emulated in MoCo.

Now tell us what those were. [/quote]

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