Of course no one wants to be a cop in DC, even black police officers get called white supremacists when DC criminals film themselves getting arrested. Eventually people will learn that you can get a MPD salary, benefits, and pension by almost doing nothing. You can't sleep in your car because reporters will put you on blast, but you can certainly go an entire career without issuing a traffic infraction, making an arrest, and possibly never writing a report. I've had two interactions with MPD and they just discouraged me from even reporting any sort of theft

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

Also you have to be willing to get shot or end up in jail if you make a single mistake on the job.

+1 when often dealing wirh large sized criminals hyped up on drugs

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only answer is to remove DC local government, instate Martial law and bring in the national guard until a proper government can be put in. Similar to Iraq.

LOL … wut?

You would typically have to use the national guard for this. It would be challenged, but I presume if a state of emergency was declared and Congress enacted it? To have worse crime than Baltimore... wow.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

Also you have to be willing to get shot or end up in jail if you make a single mistake on the job.

This. My spouse served in the military for a long time and I was aware that if he made a single mistake on the job (i'm not even talking about human cost, could be the level of something with equipment) he/we were hosed. And that's a job with some public support. Can't imagine without it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

The Defund the Police/ACAB movement made it very unpopular to be a cop. We will need to try much harder to find good people now. So self-defeating. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen “educated” people buy into.

What’s worse is that the ACAB crowd have put away their Antifa shirts and washed out the purple hair die and are now sneaking into elected office in DC.

https://anc3c.org/documents/2021-012-in-support-of-proposals-by-dc-police-reform-commission-report/

They have infested local government all over the USA, using the $18 billion from The Open Society Foundations.

Oh good, you're at least saying "infested" instead of "vermin" and "The Open Society Foundation" instead of "Soros / the globalist Jews". It's ok, we still see you. Back to your basement now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

The Defund the Police/ACAB movement made it very unpopular to be a cop. We will need to try much harder to find good people now. So self-defeating. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen “educated” people buy into.

What’s worse is that the ACAB crowd have put away their Antifa shirts and washed out the purple hair die and are now sneaking into elected office in DC.

https://anc3c.org/documents/2021-012-in-support-of-proposals-by-dc-police-reform-commission-report/

They have infested local government all over the USA, using the $18 billion from The Open Society Foundations.

Anonymous wrote:The only answer is to remove DC local government, instate Martial law and bring in the national guard until a proper government can be put in. Similar to Iraq.

LOL … wut?

Anonymous wrote:For all the people who are frantic about the DC area. Crime has risen everywhere including in conservative states.

You cannot outrun the wave of crime that is happening from the pandemic, services and other businesses, employment, schools and all such were affected.

While it's unfortunate that carjackings have risen, this is likely making up for the time there were not any during the pandemic. I have faith things will eventually course correct.

Things were closed for 2 years, and some places 2.5 years.

Are you sure crime is rising "everywhere?"
https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2023/april/is-dallas-really-the-safest-big-city-in-america/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

The Defund the Police/ACAB movement made it very unpopular to be a cop. We will need to try much harder to find good people now. So self-defeating. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen “educated” people buy into.

What’s worse is that the ACAB crowd have put away their Antifa shirts and washed out the purple hair die and are now sneaking into elected office in DC.

https://anc3c.org/documents/2021-012-in-support-of-proposals-by-dc-police-reform-commission-report/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

The Defund the Police/ACAB movement made it very unpopular to be a cop. We will need to try much harder to find good people now. So self-defeating. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen “educated” people buy into.

Yeah, like three years ago they did. But step forward three years to the present, and we barely ever hear anywhere near as much from the Defund/ACAB people anymore.

Plus, police could shut them up by fixing their policies with a few tweaks to be more responsible.

The only answer is to remove DC local government, instate Martial law and bring in the national guard until a proper government can be put in. Similar to Iraq.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

No one wants to be a cop, or at least not the quality of applicant you had 20 years ago.

As a former Atlanta Police Department officer said, “You’re a split second away from death or indictment.”

Police work can be messy. Unfortunately, with the internet and smart phones, if a cop kills someone with a gun, we immediately see an elementary school photo of the criminal and learn about his dreams to attend Harvard.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

Also you have to be willing to get shot or end up in jail if you make a single mistake on the job.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers

The Defund the Police/ACAB movement made it very unpopular to be a cop. We will need to try much harder to find good people now. So self-defeating. One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen “educated” people buy into.

Anonymous wrote:We're having a crime emergency and we need to get more officers on the ground quickly. What about bringing in officers from other parts of the country the way we do with power crews when there is a major outage. I'm sure some jurisdictions have officers they could spare for a few months. We could pay a premium to attract them.

The city is currently offering a $25K bonus to new recruits. This gives a 1st year officer a total comp of $80K, plus $6K housing assistance from DC, plus overtime (pretty much AYCE buffet).

What's the bottleneck with recruiting? This city graduates a bunch of kids from HS who could go straight into cadet corps and MPD. Is it the drug disqualification?

List of automatic disqualifiers is pretty long: https://joinmpd.dc.gov/basic-page-2020/automatic-disqualifiers