We don’t want bikes.
We want police officers that talk to people.

If you live in DC, do you know the police officers on your best?

How many police officers do you know? If none , that’s a problem. That’s THE big problem.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one even wants to be a cop in the first place. Let’s start with that.

AI robot cops will eventually solve this problem.

AI apparently already has issues with bias, so they’d have to somehow ensure that Robocop didn’t increase disparate impact or whatever.

You really can't wait until robocops beat up all of "those people" can you. You're real scum and we can all see it

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Anonymous wrote:No one even wants to be a cop in the first place. Let’s start with that.

AI robot cops will eventually solve this problem.

AI apparently already has issues with bias, so they’d have to somehow ensure that Robocop didn’t increase disparate impact or whatever.

Anonymous wrote:Ha! There all up here in NW napping in their cars.

It does happen in the fringes of the large National Presbyterian lot near Van Ness and Nebraska.

Anonymous wrote:The police claim that being on foot or on bikes limits their ability to respond quickly to emergency calls that may be a few blocks away. The argument is BS of course - if you've seen a homicide response you know that every car in the precinct piles into the area and then 95% of the officers just stand around chatting, logging their "response" to the incident.

LOL - a poor guy out for a walk had a heart attack on my street two weeks ago and within minutes there were like 7 patrol cars on the scene and dozens of cops along with an ambulance and a fire truck.

All the cops stuck around for like 2 hours chatting with police tape up (the guy was on the sidewalk so it was unclear why they blocked an adjacent road that wasn't even blocked by the ambulance or fire truck) after the ambulance was long gone - not typing up a report or directing traffic just standing around in groups talking. The fire truck left as soon as the ambulance did as if the Fireman actually had something to do but MPD - well why not hang around and look like you've actually got something important to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, police need to walk the beat. Check out this video of Harlem in the 1930s. Cops on corners with long nightsticks in full view. Everyone dressing and acting respectably. Streets and sidewalks so clean that you could eat off of them...How far we have fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyD3HbpvTNs

The Woke would claim that this is because the denizens were "oppressed and marginalized."

Neighboring Montgomery County’s Reimagining Public Safety Task Force recommends reducing staffing numbers by 50% in order to intentionally reduce the public’s interactions with police. The implication throughout the 80 page report is that the police are the problem, not crime.

Does DC’s council feel the same way?

Ha! There all up here in NW napping in their cars.

I think that's one of the things the new MPD chief wanted to see - more cops out walking and less cops sitting behind desks or sitting in cars.

That needs to happen. Cops need to know their communities to learn who the players are. The best way to do that is to get out and talk to people.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, police need to walk the beat. Check out this video of Harlem in the 1930s. Cops on corners with long nightsticks in full view. Everyone dressing and acting respectably. Streets and sidewalks so clean that you could eat off of them...How far we have fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyD3HbpvTNs

The Woke would claim that this is because the denizens were "oppressed and marginalized."

The police claim that being on foot or on bikes limits their ability to respond quickly to emergency calls that may be a few blocks away. The argument is BS of course - if you've seen a homicide response you know that every car in the precinct piles into the area and then 95% of the officers just stand around chatting, logging their "response" to the incident.

Yes, police need to walk the beat. Check out this video of Harlem in the 1930s. Cops on corners with long nightsticks in full view. Everyone dressing and acting respectably. Streets and sidewalks so clean that you could eat off of them...How far we have fallen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyD3HbpvTNs

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Anonymous wrote:Digital addiction is real.i it's not the "glass and steel bubble" They're sitting in that keeps them from policing, it's the little glass and metal in their hand shining addictive nonsense that they scroll through endlessly. I don't see cops in cars looking out their car windows, I se them illegally parked looking down at their phones. Every last one of them.

Actually, I've seen this too. They should be issued work phones with emergency money

They have work phones.

Anonymous wrote:This has long been considered a best practice and effective way to reduce crime. Unfortunately the DC mayor has chosen to do nothing.

What is incredible about this is the doublespeak by MPD, Bowser, and the police union supporters like Goulet - they argue that they are indeed doing "community policing" which is countered by a basic eye test of seeing far fewer officers around, almost none on foot... not to mention the massive increase in emergency response times from MPD which would indicate that they are not actually out in the community, but back at the precincts.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Digital addiction is real.i it's not the "glass and steel bubble" They're sitting in that keeps them from policing, it's the little glass and metal in their hand shining addictive nonsense that they scroll through endlessly. I don't see cops in cars looking out their car windows, I se them illegally parked looking down at their phones. Every last one of them.

Actually, I've seen this too. They should be issued work phones with emergency money

Sorry, meant emergency numbers (family)

Here’s a win-win: have WABA use some of its taxpayer subsidy to purchase more bikes for MPD officers.