Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”
WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?
Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.
If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.
So what is even the point?
In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.
Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.
The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.
Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.
The people who find this now normalized (in liberal cities) disrespect and misbehavior need to speak up and support law enforcement and tough laws and judges.
Is Bethesda sick of stolen cars, packages, looted stores, racing crime vehicles and going to demand consequences? Including slamming a repeat crook onto the sidewalk with a zapper and cuffing them, bringing them in for a month and then community service, gps, record?
Seems like Bethesda let friendship heights go to krap. And they’re carburetors, cars, Amazon deliveries. Now their retails stores are under attack.
Waving your ringcam feed around again or this stuff and not contacting police, local and state electorate is silly.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”
WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?
Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.
If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.
So what is even the point?
In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.
Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.
The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.
Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Amazon and Ebay are culpable in fuelling this type of crime. If they couldn’t resell these goods, they wouldn’t commit the crime.
“This wave of rip-offs is not being driven by individual shoplifters, but by large, organized theft operations that sell stolen goods online. Retailers and experts say the problem spiked during the pandemic, when stores cut back on staff. Venues like Amazon and eBay give thieves a convenient way to resell stolen goods. Last year the Prosecutors Alliance of California estimated that $500 billion worth of stolen or counterfeit goods are sold every year through online marketplaces. Some operations recruit drug addicts as "boosters," instructing them what to steal. "This is not petty theft," said Walgreens CFO James Kehoe. "These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products."
https://theweek.com/crime/1022861/the-plague-of-shoplifting-gangs?amp
FB Marketplace and tables on the weekends too. This is the nexus btw addicts and organized theft that a PP tried to deny.
Anonymous wrote:Amazon and Ebay are culpable in fuelling this type of crime. If they couldn’t resell these goods, they wouldn’t commit the crime.
“This wave of rip-offs is not being driven by individual shoplifters, but by large, organized theft operations that sell stolen goods online. Retailers and experts say the problem spiked during the pandemic, when stores cut back on staff. Venues like Amazon and eBay give thieves a convenient way to resell stolen goods. Last year the Prosecutors Alliance of California estimated that $500 billion worth of stolen or counterfeit goods are sold every year through online marketplaces. Some operations recruit drug addicts as "boosters," instructing them what to steal. "This is not petty theft," said Walgreens CFO James Kehoe. "These are gangs that actually go in and empty our stores of beauty products."
https://theweek.com/crime/1022861/the-plague-of-shoplifting-gangs?amp
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”
WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?
Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.
If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.
So what is even the point?
In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.
Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.
The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.
Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that.
Anonymous wrote:Feel free to move to Vienna or McLean. We have better schools, lower taxes, and police that don't tolerate criminal destruction of our community
Anonymous wrote:https://twitter.com/LorenzoHall/status/1656439094472212480/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1656439094472212480¤tTweetUser=LorenzoHall
What will it take to stop this trash from entering our communities?
Why can we arrest them and lock them up to maximum sentences to scare others.
I highly doubt these idiots are armed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”
WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?
Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.
If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.
So what is even the point?
In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.
Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”
WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?
Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result. Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas. Watch your back, everyone. No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.
If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.
So what is even the point?
In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.
Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.