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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I smell a rat.  What I see from those numbers is that 44% of MPD just stopped doing their jobs because they are butthurt over "defund the police" talk that only amounted to 2.8%.   Those cops are in violation of their oath of duty and are fraudulently collecting checks from DC taxpayers.  [/quote]

Two police officers were recently convicted of murder because they pursued a criminal who fled from them, and the criminal recklessly drove into a car. People are really wondering why police are more reticent to enforce things these days? There’s a high likelihood a violent criminal will do something stupid and the city will ruin your life in response.[/quote]

DC police know very well what happened to 6 Baltimore city officers:

- Baltimore prosecuted the officers for doing their jobs (and that prosecutor is now herself a convicted criminal).

DC has made it abundantly clear it is seeking to prosecute police officers.

Why would any reasonable police officer risk his or her salary by doing their job, when DC seems to prosecute officers for doing their job and arresting criminals?

The current situation is not difficult to understand.[/quote]

Were these the Baltimore cops who killed a guy by slamming him around in the back of a van?

And do the math - out of the tens of thousands of arrests that happened in the last several years, how many of them resulted in police getting prosecuted?  A handful maybe?  Per the math, MPD officers probably have less than a 0.02% chance of being prosecuted over how they handled an arrest.  Yet here you are making hyperbolic claims about how MPD can't do its job out of fear of being prosecuted.  Come on, man.

Also, it was never about disincentivizing dilligent, decent cops.  It was about disincentivizing the ones who abuse the shield, the ones who are excessively violent, undisciplined and unprincipled.   And rather than deflecting and defending the handful of bad cops, you should be looking to get rid of them and looking to restore the image and reputation of police in America.  [/quote]

Except has there been even one example of cops that abuse the shield? There hasn’t been. Just a lil of hard working, dedicated cops like Derek Chauvin who get their names drawn through the mud because, for instance, an individual they were arresting died of a drug overdose.

Chauvin is currently in jail, having already been nearly murdered. Why would you risk that? Jail time just because the guy you were arresting just happened to overdose? [/quote]

No cops abusing the shield?  Are you for real?  What about the Lieutenant who was secretly feeding intel to the Proud Boys?  There have also been MPD officers who committed assault, domestic violence, fraud, exposed themselves and so on.  And in many cases they couldn't even be kicked off of the force.  https://the1a.org/segments/the-d-c-police-force-and-the-cops-it-couldnt-fire/  There are a lot of other articles out there.

You think all that is somehow NOT an abuse, and is somehow acceptable and legitimate behavior for police officers?[/quote]

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