Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turns out that 40% of DC's gun violence happens in just 2% of the city. And I suspect a lot of the other gun violence outside of this area relates back to it in some way. MPD should be putting significant all-hands resources into cameras/surveillance/investigative/undercover work to geographically root this out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/22/shooting-increase-dc-gun-violence/

Putting a disproportionate amount of police resources into 2% of the city will immediately get you branded as a racist.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he’s made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it’s time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy’s only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work? I’ve just described for you the culture of the Baltimore police department amid the deluge of the drug war, where actual investigation goes unrewarded and where rounding up bodies for street dealing, drug possession, loitering such – the easiest and most self-evident arrests a cop can make – is nonetheless the path to enlightenment and promotion and some additional pay. That’s what the drug war built, and that’s what Martin O’Malley affirmed when he sent so much of inner city Baltimore into the police wagons on a regular basis.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish

Measuring arrests and rewarding for # of arrests is the exact opposite of measuring protection. That means the cops get rewarded for more criminal acts. It actually motivates cops to want more crime so that they can make more arrests.

The primary measurement should be number of reported violent crimes in the patrolled area relative to the total number of people relative to the historical crime rate. The target should be as low a number as possible and / or a downward trend. Also, the reporting of the crime must be done in a two step process: 1) by the officer and 2) independently by the victim (or related to victim). This prevents under-reporting by the officer to game the system. I am sure it is not that simple, but you get the general idea. Reward the absence of crime, not the abundance / prosecution of it.

Anonymous wrote:

On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he’s made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it’s time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy’s only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work? I’ve just described for you the culture of the Baltimore police department amid the deluge of the drug war, where actual investigation goes unrewarded and where rounding up bodies for street dealing, drug possession, loitering such – the easiest and most self-evident arrests a cop can make – is nonetheless the path to enlightenment and promotion and some additional pay. That’s what the drug war built, and that’s what Martin O’Malley affirmed when he sent so much of inner city Baltimore into the police wagons on a regular basis.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Turns out that 40% of DC's gun violence happens in just 2% of the city. And I suspect a lot of the other gun violence outside of this area relates back to it in some way. MPD should be putting significant all-hands resources into cameras/surveillance/investigative/undercover work to geographically root this out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/22/shooting-increase-dc-gun-violence/

Putting a disproportionate amount of police resources into 2% of the city will immediately get you branded as a racist.

Anonymous wrote:

On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he’s made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it’s time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy’s only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work? I’ve just described for you the culture of the Baltimore police department amid the deluge of the drug war, where actual investigation goes unrewarded and where rounding up bodies for street dealing, drug possession, loitering such – the easiest and most self-evident arrests a cop can make – is nonetheless the path to enlightenment and promotion and some additional pay. That’s what the drug war built, and that’s what Martin O’Malley affirmed when he sent so much of inner city Baltimore into the police wagons on a regular basis.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish

On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he’s made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it’s time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy’s only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work? I’ve just described for you the culture of the Baltimore police department amid the deluge of the drug war, where actual investigation goes unrewarded and where rounding up bodies for street dealing, drug possession, loitering such – the easiest and most self-evident arrests a cop can make – is nonetheless the path to enlightenment and promotion and some additional pay. That’s what the drug war built, and that’s what Martin O’Malley affirmed when he sent so much of inner city Baltimore into the police wagons on a regular basis.

Anonymous wrote:What we need is more resources put into violence interruption. I live in a neighborhood where people shoot at each other. I appreciate that the police are doing the best they can but they show up after the shots are fired. And they can't do much to investigate and find the perpetrators because people in the neighborhood don't trust them to keep them save. Case in point - a young woman clammed up on the witness stand about a murder she'd seen in my neighborhood because she was apparently afraid that the guy on trial would kill her for testifying. We need more folks working pro-actively who are trusted in the neighborhood to help prevent shootings.

Anonymous wrote:What we need is more resources put into violence interruption. I live in a neighborhood where people shoot at each other. I appreciate that the police are doing the best they can but they show up after the shots are fired. And they can't do much to investigate and find the perpetrators because people in the neighborhood don't trust them to keep them save. Case in point - a young woman clammed up on the witness stand about a murder she'd seen in my neighborhood because she was apparently afraid that the guy on trial would kill her for testifying. We need more folks working pro-actively who are trusted in the neighborhood to help prevent shootings.

Anonymous wrote:Turns out that 40% of DC's gun violence happens in just 2% of the city. And I suspect a lot of the other gun violence outside of this area relates back to it in some way. MPD should be putting significant all-hands resources into cameras/surveillance/investigative/undercover work to geographically root this out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/22/shooting-increase-dc-gun-violence/