Anonymous wrote:Didn’t burglary get re-defined so now it’s not burglary unless the homeowner is actually home at the time?

Anonymous wrote:Hope he is tried as an adult. He has quite a rap sheet for a 16 YO.

Now, find the punks who killed the Lyft driver.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.

Cameras should be able to read paper tags as well. If not they need to have a serious talk with their contractors and vendors.

Yes they can read them. But they are fake tags that have no tie to the vehicle.

How can you not know this? What point were you trying to make with your comment?

Camera will also give police the make, model and color of the car and if for example that car passes the same camera within 15 minutes every weekday as part of their commute, just set up with a cruiser to nail them the very next time they pass by. If it's a car with a whole bunch of outstanding tickets, it's well worth while. And if nothing else, if they start doing that in a very public way it will make every other person with a fake tag very nervous.

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Yeah I remember when March year-to-date data came out and people were like, it's only March, this doesn't show a trend yet, calm down.

And here we are in July, and it sure does!

Ugh this makes me so mad at our leadership. We can debate best policies but so many councilmen dug in on this notion that there is NOT a crime problem and now sheepishly are like, oh yeah maybe. This was clear as day two years ago and things have gotten worse even as crime in other big and more troubled cities has receded.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

Y'all haven't been enforcing tickets or parking since 2019. Bet there are a few thousand unused boots in some warehouse there in DC, start immobilizing cars with fake tags.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.

Cameras should be able to read paper tags as well. If not they need to have a serious talk with their contractors and vendors.

Yes they can read them. But they are fake tags that have no tie to the vehicle.

How can you not know this? What point were you trying to make with your comment?

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

Wait, she didn’t identify funding to cover the expected additional towing and impound costs that her legislation is creating? Seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.

Cameras should be able to read paper tags as well. If not they need to have a serious talk with their contractors and vendors.

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Anonymous wrote:Crime's up all over the country.

Ah, there you are.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

Sadly, without any mechanism to create new impound lots or enter into agreement with private lots -- plus legislation to significantly increase the number of tow trucks -- this bill has no chance of actually doing anything. There's no room at the current lots for any additional towed cars, and there aren't enough tow trucks to move them.

This is not serious legislation from Nadeau, because she knows of the existing space problem yet does not address it. This is purely performative legislation from someone who knows her popularity is in the toilet.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

I agree with this also. There are cameras everywhere in this city but paper tags render a car invisible to them. Criminals know that they are mostly invincible against any law abiding citizen. Most people are stuck hoping the inevitable carjacking or worse happens to someone else, because it will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:The council passed an emergency crime bill last week, and Nadeau (of all people) proposed a bill allowing DPW to tow and impound vehicles with fake or expired tags. Is the council finally waking up? We've got a long way to go, but this stuff helps.

I think a lot of it ties back to the loosening of regulations on vehicles - no longer requiring fines to be paid to get a license or register your car, allowing people to drive around in cars with phony paper tags, MPD no longer pulling people over for vehicle infractions, etc.

So much of the crime I've read about in the last 12 months involves the use of handguns + vehicles.

Absolutely. Fake/expired tags drive so much of the crime in this city. Go on a robbery spree in a car with fake paper tags, ditch the tags, repeat. You’ll never get caught, it’s too hard to trade. I am 100% for this bill. Get all of these cars off the streets.