Anonymous wrote:There was a serious crime committed in my neighborhood. The criminals were on a rented scooter that was abandoned after the crime. The police told me the scooter company just ignores their request for information on who rented the scooters. You have to have a phone or credit card to rent the scooters.

Can you tweet the details and Facebook the company? Public shaming works.

Also try calling whatever office regulates scooters.

Anonymous wrote:These crimes were organized on social media. There is the growing perception on social media, especially tick tock, that DC is very easy/lenient on youth crime and thus there is very little risk involved for larcenies.

TikTok users refer to armed carjacking in DC as “free cars.”

As recently as last year people were on this board excusing carjackings as “people needing to get to the store to buy food.” There is no competing with that mindset.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t I find any info about this online or from MPD twitter? It’s amazing what DOES’NT make the news (like WaPo online).

I saw it on the various DC crime twitter accounts but I was surprised that it didn't get picked up by the local news. Doesn't seem to be any outrage over it. Sad.

Woke progressives Washington Post metro reporters in action. There’s a reason why that newspaper is failing.

Anonymous wrote:Would be nice if Trump won and handled this issue.

I think Trump is genuinely embarrassed by DC crime when it comes to mind for him because he is so image obsessed and it makes any leader of the USA look kind of bad. Trump’s advisors generally seem like the kind of people who are are barricading themselves in NOVA and letting DC decline due to the stupidity of the local politicians. If Trump actually wants anything done about DC he’s going to have to invest time personally into making people who would otherwise be unwilling to do the work to get it done. I think he’s more likely to do what he did with the JFK/UFO files stuff and just defer to other people who tell him to forget about it.

Anonymous wrote:There was a serious crime committed in my neighborhood. The criminals were on a rented scooter that was abandoned after the crime. The police told me the scooter company just ignores their request for information on who rented the scooters. You have to have a phone or credit card to rent the scooters.

Isn’t that what a subpoena is for?

Would be nice if Trump won and handled this issue.

Anonymous wrote:Metro station was shut down, there were crowds of literally hundreds of teens milling around up and down M St, several shootings , more than a dozen robberies by groups of teens from 2nd and M all the way to Hill East.

What precipitated this? Was there a concert or something last night?

What precipitated this?

Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it’s the city’s progressive criminal justice policies that shield “youths” up to age 26 from any real accountability. That “juvenile offenders” get a slap on the wrist. That most residents vote in a self-flagellating way that enables weak on crime politicians to continue not tackling crime. Maybe there are no two parent households to stop this. It’s all fked up. I say that as someone from SE and it’s always been fked up. Do you know how much arm wrestling it took to get the city council to enact that recent emergency crime legislation? Way too much. But even complaining about crime is banned these days. Ugh.

Law abiding citizens in DC are basically conditioned to be sitting ducks when it comes to crime.

There was a shooting at a park in my neighborhood a few weeks back in the early evening when there were a ton of little kids and other bystanders there. Didn’t even make the Twitter crime accounts, much less the local news.

Of law abiding people don’t care or basically see it as an acceptable form of recompense to be crime victims because of “historical injustices” nothing will ever change.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe DC Police should actually do their jobs, and the DC prosecutors should actually do THEIR jobs. You all elected this mayor, you should get rid of her. She's a disgrace. DC has returned to the 1970s and 80s.

DC police hate the Mayor and the Council, so they refuse to do their jobs unless its an active shooting.

DC does not control the prosecution of offenders 18+. DC recently changed its laws so it can more readily detain and prosecute violent youth offenders. The experiment of leniency is over.

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Anonymous wrote:These crimes were organized on social media. There is the growing perception on social media, especially tick tock, that DC is very easy/lenient on youth crime and thus there is very little risk involved for larcenies.

Yes it is a shame social media companies are not held to account. Maybe a law suit or 500 would make them shut this sh$t down. That is a bridge too far for the law and order folks.

This would be great. These companies do not cooperate with LE at all. It would be nice if LE could track down and arrest people make bomb threats, swatting and flash rob/mobs. This companies can predict a lot of behavior and track all their customers but will not cooperate with LE? Allowing people and businesses to sue the social site would end this pretty quickly.

Anonymous wrote:And what are churches and schools doing, if they can't do any good, tax these churches and make school principals accountable for their lack of leadership.

When was the last time you went to Church? Most people don't go to Church. It's just a way for people to get together and unify their efforts. If people don't show up a church is powerless to do anything. We, as a community have to stop this.

If only these kids shared a commonality. Maybe then we could identify the issue.

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These crimes were organized on social media. There is the growing perception on social media, especially tick tock, that DC is very easy/lenient on youth crime and thus there is very little risk involved for larcenies.


Yes it is a shame social media companies are not held to account. Maybe a law suit or 500 would make them shut this sh$t down. That is a bridge too far for the law and order folks.

Yes, let’s blame the social media companies. Really, anyone will do. Anyone except those actually responsible

There was a serious crime committed in my neighborhood. The criminals were on a rented scooter that was abandoned after the crime. The police told me the scooter company just ignores their request for information on who rented the scooters. You have to have a phone or credit card to rent the scooters.