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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time. [/quote]

Because then people will have to realize that voting for the council and county exec who are allowing this to happen was the wrong thing and they would never admit that.  [/quote]

The county council has nothing to do with this. You sound insane.
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The CE and Council cut 25 police officer positions just for sh*ts and giggles.  There was no reason to do so.   But "defund the police" was all the rage.  Jawando in particular thinks a smaller leaner police force is what we need, because he has absolutely no clue how policing works.  The Council has enacted something like 20 different police reform requirements that weren't really needed, which has completely paralyzed the department as they try to implement them with inadequate funding and staffing.   And that leaves exactly zero time to be innovative or forward thinking like they used to be.  And surrounding jurisdictions are passing us by with much better, more efficient crime control methods.

Look, even DC's crime is down overall.  Ours is not.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/197622 
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Thank you, PP. Yes, the county council is directly responsible for this. They continue to call for a smaller police force with fewer powers. That’s in their written Task Force plan. Montgomery County is a great place to commit crime now. There’s few police, and the ones that remain have few powers. That is 100%, directly a result of county council reforms.

Why commit a crime in a neighboring jurisdiction when you can commit it in Montgomery County with zero consequences?[/quote]

Lol which is it … they cut positions or they recruit but can’t hire?

You guys need to get your story straight.[/quote]

There was no inconsistency in what PP said.  Council cut funded positions but it’s largely a moot point/empty political stunt because the County can’t hire for the positions it does have funded.  No one wants this job.  I know police officers and it’s wildly demoralizing to have people act like you are a racist (even if you’re black!) just for being a cop.  Admittedly, some got into it for the wrong reasons and/or had poor training, but that’s not the majority of the MoCo cops.  [/quote]

I know police officers and judges and state’s attorneys.

There’s a lot of BS that was going on in moco and it’s being called out (now can we clean out the state’s attorney office) and brought to justice. Only the racist cops are worried and there are quite a few. Marky  mark et.Al can use fake names online and pretend they aren’t cops as they make racist posts but it’s easy to figure out which cops they are.

It better not be 50%+ FFS, if that’s your measure of success … at least < 1/2 are not racist that’s sad.

There is not 1 cop that has not seen bad behavior and not reported it so even the good cops are culpable.

Nobody wants the job because it needs reform. We have cops doing jobs that don’t need cops.

P.S. black people can be racist.[/quote]

Let’s see you point to the “BS in MoCo” that’s being called out now. I follow county politics very closely and have seen absolutely nothing that would support your statements above about “quite a few” racist officers, etc.

You’re wrong on some many counts. People don’t want the job because they can work with more support and respect in neighboring counties… ALL neighboring counties. Again: this is the council’s doing.[/quote]

Oh so you don’t actually know cops.[/quote]

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