She was obviously obnoxious but really, does anyone think that if she were white she would've been arrested?

Anonymous wrote:Not in DC, but in Arlington ... I called the police on my neighbors they had a bunch of buys screaming and playing loud music at 11 pm. I am a woman, single at the time, and did not feel comfortable confronting drunk men. Called the police, they came, the music stopped, the police left. 10 minutes later a bunch of these guys came outside screaming fuck you and such. The music started again. I called the police again. Don't know what happened when the police came, but a bunch of guys were removed from the property.

Yes, remember the story last month about the 68-year old woman in Florida who got body-slammed and thrown in the pool after personally complaining about the noise at a party? Face-to-face isn't always best, especially when you are outnumbered.

At the end of the day, this harms not the cops who mostly mostly reside outside of DC but the citizens of DC themselves who have to at the end of the day deal with the fallout from this SJW crap.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-police-chief-officer-was-wrong-to-arrest-woman-on-noise-complaint/2017/06/07/b8fdd5b2-4b6e-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.b34e47c2c13c

Good luck with any future noise complaints folks, MPD's management caved in. I expect officers will very hesitant to act on any noise complaints from now on.

And the MPD wonders why they can't retain younger cops...

Exactly. Just the way Metro police have stopped enforcing the laws on eating in the Metro. When they ticket some hoe with attitude, the charge is racism.

Oh please. I lived in DC when crackhead Marion Barry was mayor. Many of the cops were thugs with guns and badges, used to hassle whites in DC.

I wonder if her lease will be renewed?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/dc-police-chief-officer-was-wrong-to-arrest-woman-on-noise-complaint/2017/06/07/b8fdd5b2-4b6e-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?utm_term=.b34e47c2c13c

Good luck with any future noise complaints folks, MPD's management caved in. I expect officers will very hesitant to act on any noise complaints from now on.

And the MPD wonders why they can't retain younger cops...

Anonymous wrote:

if the cops showed up at my house and asked me to turn it down, the music would be OFF in a heartbeat. If I couldn't figure out the sound system controls, cords would get yanked out of the wall. That fails - flip the master switch to the house.

+1

From the article: "I worked frantically with another guest to turn the music down and to research the noise ordinance. After about 20 minutes of waiting at the foot of my driveway, the white officer returned to my porch and arrested me for violating the noise ordinance."

The issue wasn't that the DJ couldn't find the switches. The arrested person and another guest were "researching the noise ordinance" for 20 mins while their music was thumping and the police were standing outside waiting.

Anonymous wrote:
Indeed, the neighbor should have asked in person,

Ridiculous. I would go and talk to the neighbor if there was some sort of problem that they likely weren't aware of. Like maybe if their dog was loose, or their barn was on fire.

These people were already well aware that they were disturbing their neighbors. How do you seriously think they would have reacted to neighbors complaining? Since they were obnoxious enough to make the police wait outside for 20 mins while they "researched the noise ordinance" to try to decide whether they needed to do what the police asked or not. I'd call the police all day and all night long on people like that. And I don't give a shit what race they are.

What racism? All I see is one extremely arrogant and entitled individual who believes she has the right to disturb the peace and quiet of her neighbors.

Yawn...what a non story

I was at a party on Saturday night in a yard where the cops got called for a noise complaint. All of the immediate neighbors had been invited and most were there (not given earplugs tho, which I find both funny and telling regarding how loud the DJ-having party thrower planned it to be!). Whoever called the cops probably wasn't someone who knows the family, so why would they be expected to come over to complain? I wouldn't go into the yard of a family I didn't know, at night, where there was partying going on - you don't know the people, you don't know how they are going to react to your complaint. That's why we have the police to do this for us.

At the party I was at, the homeowner apologized, asked what he could do to rectify the issue, turned the music down while MPD was standing there, and thanked the officers for their service. No arrests.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I could hear the music playing from over two blocks away, it was THAT loud. No sympathy for her here.

We're 3 blocks away and it was thumping in my house - it was above and beyond loud. And honestly - if the cops showed up at my house and asked me to turn it down, the music would be OFF in a heartbeat. If I couldn't figure out the sound system controls, cords would get yanked out of the wall. That fails - flip the master switch to the house.

Racism is absolutely and unfortunately alive and well, it seems like mislabeling here. Indeed, the neighbor should have asked in person, but... here we all are 'talking' in an anonymous online forum instead of discussing it over coffee F2F. Our culture is sadly moving away from knowing how to talk to one another (or maybe the person is elderly and ill or a shut-in - or didn't think they could be heard over that insanely loud music)

The police did a great job.

I am pp, not sure what the color of the police officers was, but the guys were white.

Not in DC, but in Arlington ... I called the police on my neighbors they had a bunch of buys screaming and playing loud music at 11 pm. I am a woman, single at the time, and did not feel comfortable confronting drunk men. Called the police, they came, the music stopped, the police left. 10 minutes later a bunch of these guys came outside screaming fuck you and such. The music started again. I called the police again. Don't know what happened when the police came, but a bunch of guys were removed from the property.

This country is actually doing really well if enforcing a noise complaint is what captures headlines as a "despicable act of racism". What an entitled, privileged problem you all have there in NW DC.