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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP,

Do you expect MPD officers to walk a beat on this street?

[img]https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200608204157-01-defund-the-police-street-painting-dc-0608-full-169.jpg[/img]

You have told DC’s police what you think of them.

Why do you expect them to care about you now?

Why would they bother risking everything when you only want to prosecute police officers and not criminals?

You progressives did this.  Now you get to live with the consequences of your actions.[/quote]

You can post that picture all you like but ultimately it's meaningless, because DC *DID NOT* defund police in any meaningful way, and certainly NOT so much that it could even remotely account for the increase in crime.  If your police union is telling you otherwise, they are full of shit and they are the problem.

As police officers you swear an oath to uphold law and to protect and serve your community.  REGARDLESS of your police union leaders being snowflakes upset about some dumb shit painted on a pavement.[/quote]

I am not the poster of the defund pic, but there was an uptick in crime after the seismic social justice movement of 2020, plus COVID. Even though most cities including DC were flush with federal money during covid - none of the equity programming they directed a lot of it to (sometimes bizarrely) seems to have offset the changes in policies and policing they also oversaw. I think it's like when a teenager realizes their parent actually has no power to ground them if they just want to walk out the door - the criminals of DC discovered that there is zero will, and often very favorable laws that lean towards leniency for them. LEA standing by (as directed by politicians and the social climate) in 2020 while expensive plate windows were smashed and stores looted and the city painting messages that offset the "people" from "the police" certainly didn't help. Of course it's all compounded by a non functioning crime lab and cretinous prosecutors, but the sea change began with the heavy handed defund rhetoric and related pro criminal policy changes like the disastrous Allen law and messaging. Since then our city feels like it is welcoming to criminals, and literally no one else. Not police and certainly not residents and visitors. It sucks.[/quote]

Agreed. Very well said. It’s unfortunate what’s happened to our city in just a few year’s time. Disgrunted DC Democrat who is highly in favor of greater enforcement and police funding.[/quote]

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