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Anonymous wrote:And DC has that extra special problem of having federal prosecutors who are not accountable to DC citizens, and these prosecutors keep dropping the ball and keep putting violent criminals back out on the street.

Pretty sure that the federal prosecutors tasked with prosecuting local crime in DC would disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe we need fewer McDuffie's, more Giulianis.in D.C. look what a mess deblasio is making of NY

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Anonymous wrote:Pear clutchers getting the vapors as summer in the city kicks off. B-b-b-but I live in Northwest DC....

Anonymous wrote:And DC has that extra special problem of having federal prosecutors who are not accountable to DC citizens, and these prosecutors keep dropping the ball and keep putting violent criminals back out on the street.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe we need fewer McDuffie's, more Giulianis.in D.C. look what a mess deblasio is making of NY

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Anonymous wrote:I think it will stop when Trump takes office-after all, he is a no-nonsense type of guy. One can only hope.......

Yes, he will personally patrol DC.

This thread is ridiculous. It's a big city, of course crime will be higher. It's always been. I'm sure the law enforcement agencies know and atte working on it if there's an upward trend.In the meantime, you can aware of your surroundings and smart about your choices and you will very likely be safe. Shit happens, sure, but you can be the victim of a violent offense even in the nice, white, wealthy suburbs. Just ask Trayvon Martin

Anonymous wrote:I think it will stop when Trump takes office-after all, he is a no-nonsense type of guy. One can only hope.......

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Anonymous wrote:Before the summer is over somebody gonna straight up drop dead on Metro, watch. Some stressed out hyperparanoid compulsive worrier with an anxiety disorder is gonna be on a platform and as soon as the recording says, "Doors opening", they're gonna keel over from feeding into this mass panic y'all trying to spread.

No, not this summer. It won't be running, nobody will be on it. This fall or winter, maybe.

I think you underestimate Metro's ability to kill people.

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Anonymous wrote:Before the summer is over somebody gonna straight up drop dead on Metro, watch. Some stressed out hyperparanoid compulsive worrier with an anxiety disorder is gonna be on a platform and as soon as the recording says, "Doors opening", they're gonna keel over from feeding into this mass panic y'all trying to spread.

No, not this summer. It won't be running, nobody will be on it. This fall or winter, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

Rimjob defense attorney? That must have been interesting. If you're so concerned, please reach out to one of any number of community resources. You know, like MPD (I assume you know where the District station is located) or your PSA liaison. There's also the ANC and MOCRS liaison. There's also community listservs and the Current. Let us know what you find out.

That was intended to read "criminal defense attorney" and got garbled by my phones dictation function. More importantly, I don't work for you and do not need to report back to you. I well know the resources available, and I am an active community member on these types of issues. Your condescension in dismissing the previous poster's concern as pearl clutching was of obnoxious and only detracts from the sad facts on the ground.

You seem to have a higher tolerance for laziness than I. Several suspects allegedly connected to a knife-point robbery were apprehended at WHS yesterday afternoon. Maybe they were responsible for other assaults, maybe not. I seem to recall that one adult was arrested for one of the Tenleytown incidents. I'm sure the detectives are working the case and will make whatever statement is warranted. Either way, perhaps the Politics forum of DCUM isn't the best place to obtain accurate information relating a robbery which did not result in serious injury. NW isn't Mayberry.

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

Rimjob defense attorney? That must have been interesting. If you're so concerned, please reach out to one of any number of community resources. You know, like MPD (I assume you know where the District station is located) or your PSA liaison. There's also the ANC and MOCRS liaison. There's also community listservs and the Current. Let us know what you find out.

That was intended to read "criminal defense attorney" and got garbled by my phones dictation function. More importantly, I don't work for you and do not need to report back to you. I well know the resources available, and I am an active community member on these types of issues. Your condescension in dismissing the previous poster's concern as pearl clutching was of obnoxious and only detracts from the sad facts on the ground.

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Anonymous wrote:As understaffed as MPD might, I think they have a pretty good track record in terms of responding to and solving violent crimes and apprehending the suspects. There needs to be more proactive community policing and crime suppression. Policing Metro is much more problematic when there are random assaults by groups of individuals under the age of 18, but even then a significant number of high profile assaults have resulted in arrests.

Arrests, but no charges. Not that much deterrence.

I thought we were debunking the BS that is the "Ferguson effect," not discussing whether prosecutions (or lack of same) have a deterrent effect. Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any high-profile cases where there was an arrest but charges were dropped by the US Attorney except where juveniles were the alleged perpetrators or the victim couldn't positively ID a specific assailant:

All the high profile instances of groups of teens attacking strangers on the metro were juveniles. Also, groups of teens attacking people outside the metro in DC are all juveniles.

Have the guys who attacked the GDS kid even been arrested?

Do you have any leads to share with detectives or just pearl clutching?

New poster, but your condescension is disgusting. People have every reason to inquire whether police have identified and taken measures against the people who committed this assault and theft. I don't wear pearls, and there's no clutching. I am a citizen asking whether or not our police are doing a sufficient job protecting people in DC. Oh, and I was a rimjb defense attorney for over 15 years before transitioning to another area of law. No pearls, just too much exertion exerts criminals and the expansion of unchecked criminal conduct.

+1. Thank you.

Rimjob defense attorney? That must have been interesting. If you're so concerned, please reach out to one of any number of community resources. You know, like MPD (I assume you know where the District station is located) or your PSA liaison. There's also the ANC and MOCRS liaison. There's also community listservs and the Current. Let us know what you find out.