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Anonymous wrote:How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time.

Because then people will have to realize that voting for the council and county exec who are allowing this to happen was the wrong thing and they would never admit that.

The county council has nothing to do with this. You sound insane.

The CE and Council cut 25 police officer positions just for sh*ts and giggles. There was no reason to do so. But "defund the police" was all the rage. Jawando in particular thinks a smaller leaner police force is what we need, because he has absolutely no clue how policing works. The Council has enacted something like 20 different police reform requirements that weren't really needed, which has completely paralyzed the department as they try to implement them with inadequate funding and staffing. And that leaves exactly zero time to be innovative or forward thinking like they used to be. And surrounding jurisdictions are passing us by with much better, more efficient crime control methods.

Look, even DC's crime is down overall. Ours is not.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/197622

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Thank you, PP. Yes, the county council is directly responsible for this. They continue to call for a smaller police force with fewer powers. That’s in their written Task Force plan. Montgomery County is a great place to commit crime now. There’s few police, and the ones that remain have few powers. That is 100%, directly a result of county council reforms.

Why commit a crime in a neighboring jurisdiction when you can commit it in Montgomery County with zero consequences?

Lol which is it … they cut positions or they recruit but can’t hire?

You guys need to get your story straight.

Anonymous wrote:A dead body was found inside a trash bag on Old Georgetown Road near Wildwood. Probably gang killing.

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Anonymous wrote:How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time.

Time to move to Florida.

People robbed at gun point outside Apple Store in Miami
https://www.google.com/amp/s/wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/couple-robbed-at-gunpoint-behind-lincoln-road-apple-store/amp/

Smash and grab at Apple Store in Jacksonville
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2017/05/17/jacksonville-s-apple-store-victim-pricey-smash-and-grab-burglary/15755384007/

$500K iPhone theft ring based out of Ft Lauderdale mall
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/miami/news/police-bust-500k-iphone-theft-ring-operating-in-mall-apple-store/

Thieves go where the valuables are.

FL will be underwater.

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Anonymous wrote:How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time.

Well, the car jacking at Rockville Town Center a few weeks ago was at around 11:30am and I barely saw much about it on the news. The high school was on lockdown. But kids from RM go hang have lunch at Town Center often. They caught the DC teens who did it near Rockville Pike/Gude Drive later.

I guess it is the new normal.

The teens carjacking is an epidemic. I think it’s because teens want a car, and they’re hard to steal now. They want a car with a key, and that means carjacking someone. It’s so dumb and they have no plan except to ride around and then ditch the car. They’re too stupid to realize how easy it is for someone to get killed. We need the car companies to come up with technologies to prevent this ASAP. There needs to be a fast way to disable and recover the car. Possibly also we need dash cams, although I was on a carjacking jury where the stupid kids took their own pictures of themselves in the stolen car, then posted them to social media. So the level of idiocy is extremely high.

I think it’s darker than that … teens carjack cars as part of an organized crime ring, so the car can be sold or used in a crime. sometimes joyriding, but my money is on organized crime for teens coming from DC to carjack in Rockville.

Correct. Stupid kids joyriding is rare. Most crimes have a financial incentive.
And I agree that criminal activity in Montgomery County is influenced by the complete mess that is DC right now. This is why we need federal gun control.

The recent carjacking at Rockville Town Center was done using a BB gun. Do you think having federal BB gun control will alleviate crime?

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Anonymous wrote:How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time.

Because then people will have to realize that voting for the council and county exec who are allowing this to happen was the wrong thing and they would never admit that.

The county council has nothing to do with this. You sound insane.

The CE and Council cut 25 police officer positions just for sh*ts and giggles. There was no reason to do so. But "defund the police" was all the rage. Jawando in particular thinks a smaller leaner police force is what we need, because he has absolutely no clue how policing works. The Council has enacted something like 20 different police reform requirements that weren't really needed, which has completely paralyzed the department as they try to implement them with inadequate funding and staffing. And that leaves exactly zero time to be innovative or forward thinking like they used to be. And surrounding jurisdictions are passing us by with much better, more efficient crime control methods.

Look, even DC's crime is down overall. Ours is not.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/197622

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Thank you, PP. Yes, the county council is directly responsible for this. They continue to call for a smaller police force with fewer powers. That’s in their written Task Force plan. Montgomery County is a great place to commit crime now. There’s few police, and the ones that remain have few powers. That is 100%, directly a result of county council reforms.

Why commit a crime in a neighboring jurisdiction when you can commit it in Montgomery County with zero consequences?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you all forgetting about the gruesome murder that took place at the Lululemon there a decade ago?

That was an insane employee caught stealing and could happen anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:How come people aren't talking more about this...looks like it was 6pm. Is this normal? I am often in that area with my kids at that time.

Because then people will have to realize that voting for the council and county exec who are allowing this to happen was the wrong thing and they would never admit that.

The county council has nothing to do with this. You sound insane.

The CE and Council cut 25 police officer positions just for sh*ts and giggles. There was no reason to do so. But "defund the police" was all the rage. Jawando in particular thinks a smaller leaner police force is what we need, because he has absolutely no clue how policing works. The Council has enacted something like 20 different police reform requirements that weren't really needed, which has completely paralyzed the department as they try to implement them with inadequate funding and staffing. And that leaves exactly zero time to be innovative or forward thinking like they used to be. And surrounding jurisdictions are passing us by with much better, more efficient crime control methods.

Look, even DC's crime is down overall. Ours is not.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/node/197622

Anonymous wrote:Are you all forgetting about the gruesome murder that took place at the Lululemon there a decade ago?

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Anonymous wrote:Shooting on Hungerford Drive in Rockville yesterday too. In broad daylight, right by the Flagshio car wash in full view of lord of people. It’s crazy.

Yea because there are never shootings at Unity bridge, are you new here. Do you even know what Lincoln Park is?

umm yes I’m fully aware. But during daylight a father getting shot in front of his son should still shock us.

Yea well you should have always been shocked not act like it’s something new.

You’re just sad it’s creeping closer and closer to people that look like you.

You never gave a rats a$$ before

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DC crime hasn’t been shocking to me for decades. That’s the reason I chose NOT to live there. I am however shocked that it is creeping farther and farther out. And you’re right - now I do give a rats a$$. Because I don’t want the DC crime cesspool running rampant where I live. And I make no apologies for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Shooting on Hungerford Drive in Rockville yesterday too. In broad daylight, right by the Flagshio car wash in full view of lord of people. It’s crazy.

Yea because there are never shootings at Unity bridge, are you new here. Do you even know what Lincoln Park is?

umm yes I’m fully aware. But during daylight a father getting shot in front of his son should still shock us.

Yea well you should have always been shocked not act like it’s something new.

You’re just sad it’s creeping closer and closer to people that look like you.

You never gave a rats a$$ before

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Anonymous wrote:Shooting on Hungerford Drive in Rockville yesterday too. In broad daylight, right by the Flagshio car wash in full view of lord of people. It’s crazy.

Yea because there are never shootings at Unity bridge, are you new here. Do you even know what Lincoln Park is?

umm yes I’m fully aware. But during daylight a father getting shot in front of his son should still shock us.

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Anonymous wrote:Shooting on Hungerford Drive in Rockville yesterday too. In broad daylight, right by the Flagshio car wash in full view of lord of people. It’s crazy.

Yea because there are never shootings at Unity bridge, are you new here. Do you even know what Lincoln Park is?