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Anonymous wrote:Also, private police force, sorry “security”. I’ll pay for it and a bunch of neighbors will.

I'd like more information about this. I never wanted to live in Brasil or a gated community, but I don't see the alternative

Walls don't work. And, how will people read your yard signs?

Instead of wasting time and resources dealing with the ANC and City Council fools let’s self organize. There are whole bunch of police we defunded that would love to work in Woodley Park, Cleveland Park Woodland etc. while getting pension and not risking jail for chasing a violent criminal.

I’d say let’s just completely ignore the ANC and City Council. Who cares. Won’t be able to touch us and living well is the best revenge. Mr. Yawn can move in with Chaz Allen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/public-vs-private-policing-in-st-louis

I’m in

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Anonymous wrote:Also, private police force, sorry “security”. I’ll pay for it and a bunch of neighbors will.

South Africa, here we come.

But, I agree. When the government doesn’t do their job to prosecute criminals and keep them off the streets, citizens will start looking after themselves.

My husband has a background in this stuff. I told him he should open a decent security service in the district--not untrained people who stare at thieves as they loot the shelves- but the real thing offering decent neighborhood and home protection. Curious about the interest level. Best would be if neighbors/neighborhoods went in on it together, to bring down the cost. Is this something you would go in on with your street?

Anonymous wrote:Also, private police force, sorry “security”. I’ll pay for it and a bunch of neighbors will.

I'd like more information about this. I never wanted to live in Brasil or a gated community, but I don't see the alternative

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Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this seems like a teen boy prank with friends.

There is video, it was one man on a scooter. Not even ransacking cars, just destruction and damage to create harm.

Are police working to identify the rental scooter company?

Ha! Someone with Ring camera footage of the offender called in and then walked in to the 2nd District Station to offer it up. And they were rude and totally disinterested. When the city declines to prosecute anyone, the police consider it a waste of time to even go looking for offenders. Our city is broken, and f***ed.

That can't be true, can it? It would be so easy to track that suspect down through the scooter companies.

Yes you would think they would do some detective work. They could pull records from the scooter company and camera footage from homeowners. We used the DC rebate program ourselves to install cameras - now you are telling me they are not interested in footage when a crime is committed? I'm curious if the guy was wearing a mask in the footage.

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I totally believe this. A friend in DC followed three men who committed a crime as they fled and told police exactly where they were. They weren’t running, just walking down the street. The police never came. My friend called them three different times. It was completely absurd and showed me how dangerous DC is.

The police are not the problem.

What police? The ones we fired and put in jails?

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people have car insurance

Yawn.

Until it's your car! But hey it's only rich people, right? Tax base is going to flee DC.

Why would we? Just get Yawn and his friends out by getting our property values even higher and contracting private police force. I personally love that we’ll create an oasis while the city burns because watch my property price then. And Yawn can move to the burbs. Bye, Yawn, pack up your saddle bags and “git”

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Anonymous wrote:This is why people have car insurance

Yawn.

No, this is why people move out of the city. It gets old. Why invest tax dollars there when there’s so much nuisance and lawlessness ? This is how you drive out your tax base. Also you wouldn’t file an insurance claim on a car window it’s not worth the hike increase fool.

We can self-organize and privatize all the services, including security. It’s been a fact of life in many major cities far more capable than DC. We have cameras everywhere and I’m thinking of electrifying the fences or at least spike and crushed glass method. Plus our dogs are trained to bite anyone stinking of cheep reefer

Anonymous wrote:Also, private police force, sorry “security”. I’ll pay for it and a bunch of neighbors will.

South Africa, here we come.

But, I agree. When the government doesn’t do their job to prosecute criminals and keep them off the streets, citizens will start looking after themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah. Bike-jackings will be next. Then they might care.

Maybe a dead body blocking the lane, that is about the only way they will take notice. Even than, it is questionable.

Would depend on the color and where they stood on the ME conflict while alive

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Just normal boy prank behavior tho. Also another duo, a nine and thirteen year old, were also arrested last night for robbery with a knife

I really think we need to start charging their parents. Why is a 9 year old roaming around at night without an adult or parent? Something has to give.

Don’t you know that his parents are too busy to watch him because they are at their 3rd job, toiling away all night? 🙄

What parents?!

Also, private police force, sorry “security”. I’ll pay for it and a bunch of neighbors will.

Anonymous wrote:We need a big fence down the middle of 12 th st

Oh, come on. 14th

Joke aside, can we privatize our roads?

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Anonymous wrote:This is actually the perfect moment for restorative justice. If I was the judge, I'd suggest a paid apprenticeship at a car mechanic where he'd learn to replace windows. It would end when he'd successfully replaced 50 of them.

That's not restorative justice. Restorative justice would let the citizens meet the hammer wielder and apologize for their extravagant wealth.

True justice will be when the judges's hammer comes down hard on the perpetrator with a harsh cumulative sentence based on 50-plus counts of burglary and vandalism.

They should go all out to find these guys. It looked like two in the video and one has a very distinctive gait. The scooter was likely rented. What company was it - has district 2 spoken to looking into scooter rentals? There also HAS to be more video. If they came out on CT Ave, surely they passed some businesses. Is District 2 canvassing for this? Fingerprints?

If you read the thread you would know the answers to your questions are "no." USAO doesn't prosecute property crime anyway. Like Bowser said, "This isn't Maybury." You must be new here. The scooter was likely rented with a stolen card. Go back to your detective stories.

I'm from DC.... Assuming that they could try different angles at least. Likely and was are two different things .