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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s hope this tragic death is what turns the tide. Several informed observations:

1. Thanks to the DC Council, we lost qualified cops, then tried to rehire and entice anyone to join with bonuses. Over the past 2 weeks, 2 DC cops were arrested for relatively minor but questionable offenses (moonlighting during the work hours and a chase).

2. The carjacker was shot by the MD troopers. The carjacker would likely have never been found or prosecuted in DC. That he may have been mentally ill is irrelevant since these are daily occurrences in DC.

3. Thanks to DC Council, the MPD isn’t allowed to chase and have to watch their back. The prosecution rate for cops is much greater than for the criminals. Had the carjacker been by some miracle shot in DC, that cop would be suspended and looking at jail just like the cop chasing an armed criminal who perished on his own.

4. In conclusion, an utter human tragedy within a greater tragedy is DC laid to waste by the DC Council. I can’t see a way forward unless this tragedy sends a wake up call and results in a federal protectorate and army on the streets until and unless DC can prove that it can secure its streets for all its citizens in all the Wards.[/quote]

If the murderer had either not left city limits or controlled his murderous ways once crossing the line, he would most likely be free right now or have Council members falling over themselves to provide him services, as we saw was the immediate impulse by a member of the Council after a man assaulted daycare workers in front of the children.[/quote]

They don't fall over themselves to provide services (or impose services) on the mentally ill crowding every bus stop UNTIL they assault or murder someone. Then it's, but services! But they're ill![/quote]

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