Anonymous
01/10/2024 08:03
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
As many as it takes. DC authorities view this level of mayhem as better than “mass incarceration.” Get that through your head—they simply do not care.
Anonymous
01/10/2024 07:52
Subject: Re:We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous
01/10/2024 07:01
Subject: Re:We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/10/2024 06:44
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
I seriously doubt prosecutors care how many people die. Just stop believing what they tell you, and start to focus on what they’re doing. Actions speak louder than words… and endless promises.
They know most people are stupid and will keep voting the same way.
Will there be an expose and demonstrations? Media needs to expose, and residents need to shame and demands change.
Anonymous
01/09/2024 18:15
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Time to get out
Get out now
Get out now
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/09/2024 17:57
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
I seriously doubt prosecutors care how many people die. Just stop believing what they tell you, and start to focus on what they’re doing. Actions speak louder than words… and endless promises.
They know most people are stupid and will keep voting the same way.
All of this starts and ends with the city council. They run the show and they are relentlessly soft on crime. You see the results.
Anonymous
Anonymous
01/09/2024 15:55
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
I seriously doubt prosecutors care how many people die. Just stop believing what they tell you, and start to focus on what they’re doing. Actions speak louder than words… and endless promises.
They know most people are stupid and will keep voting the same way.
Like anyone in DC, I'm sure the USAO dreads a WaPo headline, like "USAO Graves Responsible For X Murders in 2023 Due To Not Prosecuting And Preventing Violent Felons From Continuing to Murder"
I'm sure if the right people stepped up there would be a freakout and change of behavior.
Anonymous
01/09/2024 14:21
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
I seriously doubt prosecutors care how many people die. Just stop believing what they tell you, and start to focus on what they’re doing. Actions speak louder than words… and endless promises.
They know most people are stupid and will keep voting the same way.
Anonymous
01/09/2024 14:07
Subject: We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
How many more people have to die before MPD and the prosecutors start doing their jobs?
Anonymous
01/09/2024 09:55
Subject: Re:We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
The shooting victim who then crashed into Peet's coffee at 17th & L St. NW earlier this morning has died. DC is NOT on a good trajectory. The Mayflower used to be a very safe business travel/wedding/event hotel. Crime downtown and in Dupont has really picked up. RIP to the man who died today. DC's homicide stats are really ticking up and it's only 1/9!
Anonymous
01/09/2024 09:44
Subject: Re:We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
I used to go to this Peet's at 17th & L all the time before remote work. This is nuts. Wondering if he was shot there or elsewhere, details still have not been clarified. Thank goodness it was so early, they open at 6:30 and think the staff are there a bit earlier. Super nice folks at that location, hope repairs will be quick so they won't lose too many hours.
Anonymous
01/08/2024 20:08
Subject: Re:We need massively stepped up criminal enforcement and convictions in DC
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
The impact it SHOULD have is for cops to realize that it's not necessary to pin someone to the ground such that they can't breathe, particularly when they aren't armed and weren't resisting. Or to not let someone slam around in the back of a van without a seatbelt. I mean you at least have enough training to not let them hit their heads getting into the back of a cruiser, don'cha?
The impact SHOULD be that maybe cops should take a few minutes out of their day to look at the literal thousands of videos all over Youtube and everywhere else, and the dozens of new ones that get posted every day, which shows cops acting like complete a-holes?
Police really need to work on their reputation and restore community faith and trust in them. But instead police continue to go around acting self righteous, pretending there's no such thing as police abuse, or worse yet, collecting a check but not doing the job.
+ 1000
Curious if the two posters above actually have any experience in law enforcement, or any families members who have worked in law enforcement. My guess is no. And I don't view it as "self righteous" to remind the "defund the police" crowd that when their babies get carjacked in Georgetown, or they get whacked in the back of the head on the National Mall, or when they are innocent bystanders in a U Street shootout, then they actually might need the police . . .
We are PAYING for the police - who just sit in their cars, scrolling through tik tok videos, can't even be bothered to show up for most of the crimes happening in this city.
The police don’t want to go to jail either.
Reality check: Despite the handful of cases that were high profile in the news like Derek Chauvin, police have less than a 0.1% chance of being prosecuted for something that happened in the line of duty. Spare us that crap. Like I shouldn't go and do MY job because there's a less than 0.1% chance of me getting struck by lightning? Give me a break.
Daily factoid: Far more MPD officers have been prosecuted for things like domestic violence, DUI etc than for "doing their jobs." The time is long past due to drive a stake through that false myth of persecuted cops.
I mean, a police officer was just admonished by the highest court in DC for confiscating a gun from an obvious gang-banger in a high crime block, who immediately went on to hijack a pharmacy truck with a machine gun in a drug distribution conspiracy. The officer won’t get prosecuted I’m sure, but how demoralizing.
Do you have more details, like a link, to give more context?
And if things like that are happening, why aren't prosecutors and witnesses in these cases stepping up and reminding judges that the gun was in fact illegal? Sure it's bound to be demoralizing but why are we putting up with this stupid shit from incompetent judges?
It was posted up thread. The court held that it was a 4th Amendment violation because there was not “reasonable suspicion” for the officer to look in the jacket pockets. Despite his instinct being 100% correct and grounded in the suspect’s behavior and the officer’s knowledge of the neighborhood. And of course also by the defendant’s subsequent action. It’s like an utter hellscape of the 2nd and 4th amendment colliding.