Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's horrible. I cannot believe that we make legal gun ownership so difficult in DC (rightly, and I say this as a legal gun owning household) and illegal gun-ownership gets a slap on the wrist. It's a scandal that needs even more investigative work.
I agree. I really do not understand why we can't get more funding for more policing.
I lean left, and will never vote for a conservative, but come on. Do better, liberals.
What about this incident makes you think the cause is lack of policing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:That's horrible. I cannot believe that we make legal gun ownership so difficult in DC (rightly, and I say this as a legal gun owning household) and illegal gun-ownership gets a slap on the wrist. It's a scandal that needs even more investigative work.
I agree. I really do not understand why we can't get more funding for more policing.
I lean left, and will never vote for a conservative, but come on. Do better, liberals.
Anonymous wrote:A second victim has died.
Anonymous wrote:More on the individual killed: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxleoj0Rp61/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
It is a legislation problem. My son was murdered recently by a man who murdered someone in 2016 plead down to aggravate assault & got 3 years probation. While on probation he was stopped with an illegal firearm & not detained or arrested which left him on the street to murder 2 people including my son who was an innocent bystander. After being shot there were no 9-1-1 dispatchers available to answer the influx of calls & it took an ambulance over 30 mins to get to the scene where my son bled to death. SM only reports the events, 87% of violent crimes were declined to be processed by the District Attorney. When the dogs died in that flood they addressed the lack of dispatchers at the 9-1-1 call center. What are our tax dollars going to? What are our elected officials doing to keep the community safe?
Anonymous wrote:This issue is MPD leaving or retiring at a far higher rate than they can recruit, not funding at this point. Higher signing bonuses and other incentives have been tried, other area LE are also struggling to recruit and there is a lot of competition in this area.