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Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/

I'm usually a Silver Spring booster but last year's GS cashbox theft was in downtown Silver Spring.

MoCo is getting so trash so quickly it’s hard to fathom.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/

I'm usually a Silver Spring booster but last year's GS cashbox theft was in downtown Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when people have no hope. The middle class has been greatly squeezesd, and the lower class has no hope to move up. So, drugs and violence continue to grow.

When the middle class is strong, and the lower class knows they can get a great education and move up in status, hope is present, and drugs and violence decrease.

We need a wealth tax, we need giant corporations with record profits and share buybacks to pay their fair share in taxes (in some cases, they haven't paid ANY taxes), and we need to support those who need help, so they can move up, and out of the lower class

Or just put criminals in jail. The rest of us are doing fine.

It seems that you should move into a gated community where you will be surrounded by others “doing fine” and protected by private security, since you don’t seem to be comprehending that you live out in the world with poor people who are getting increasingly agitated.

I live in NE DC with other working class families. My private security is a shotgun.

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Anonymous wrote:But I was told in another thread that living in the city instead of moving to the suburbs once I had kids was childish, because cities are crime-ridden and not child friendly, and the suburbs are heaven.

Are you telling me... that was wrong?

Many parts of MoCo and NoVa really aren't true suburbia tho.

They're like mini cities and extensions of DC.

That is true but also Nova has half the crime of Moco

Not really true. Check crimegrade.org -- they're about the same in terms of safety. It's really only DC proper that is not very safe.

I will grant you that the VA folks are obsessed with posting on here about crime in MD; MD folks do not have the same obsession about VA, so if you only follow this board, it can give a skewed perspective.

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/

Democrats will do nothing to find him and punish him. Just watch.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I was told in another thread that living in the city instead of moving to the suburbs once I had kids was childish, because cities are crime-ridden and not child friendly, and the suburbs are heaven.

Are you telling me... that was wrong?

Many parts of MoCo and NoVa really aren't true suburbia tho.

They're like mini cities and extensions of DC.

That is true but also Nova has half the crime of Moco

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But I was told in another thread that living in the city instead of moving to the suburbs once I had kids was childish, because cities are crime-ridden and not child friendly, and the suburbs are heaven.

Are you telling me... that was wrong?

Many parts of MoCo and NoVa really aren't true suburbia tho.

They're like mini cities and extensions of DC.

Anonymous wrote:But I was told in another thread that living in the city instead of moving to the suburbs once I had kids was childish, because cities are crime-ridden and not child friendly, and the suburbs are heaven.

Are you telling me... that was wrong?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what happens when people have no hope. The middle class has been greatly squeezesd, and the lower class has no hope to move up. So, drugs and violence continue to grow.

When the middle class is strong, and the lower class knows they can get a great education and move up in status, hope is present, and drugs and violence decrease.

We need a wealth tax, we need giant corporations with record profits and share buybacks to pay their fair share in taxes (in some cases, they haven't paid ANY taxes), and we need to support those who need help, so they can move up, and out of the lower class

Or just put criminals in jail. The rest of us are doing fine.

It seems that you should move into a gated community where you will be surrounded by others “doing fine” and protected by private security, since you don’t seem to be comprehending that you live out in the world with poor people who are getting increasingly agitated.

DP here.

What do you suggest? The person you’re responding to clearly thinks criminals should be held accountable for their actions. Do you disagree?

There are two very polarized groups right now when it comes to criminal justice. The far left thinks criminals are victims of society, systemic racism, poverty, and other negative factors. A lot of that is true. The far right wants law breaker in jail for the maximum amount of time, fueled by a deep need for retribution rather than for public safety. And removing law breakers from society makes society safer.

But neither is a sustainable path. Right now the far left is winning and crime is increasing. The people who suffer the increased violence are communities of color, lower income individuals, and other at-risk individuals. Who did that special needs bus driver molest? When the far right "wins," outrageous numbers of people are held in prison and their families and communities suffer their absence as well.

A reasoned, middle-of-the-road approach -- clear consequences for breaking the law, appropriate to the crime, which also increasing governmental services for non-crime societal ills like homelessness/mental health/substance abuse -- would be more effective.

We are a much too polarized society to be effective anymore.

The far left is winning and we see who suffers the most as a result.

The only answer: more of the same but even more and harder.

What does the far left have to do with rising crime?

Are you that stupid?

Your boy did this your boy's policies did this.

Who stiffed every single police department in the US that they did a rally in that city? Come on you know the answer it was the Republcian party with Trump. Do you know how many millions of $ police departments have to pay now that has to be made up by taxpayers?

Not to mention every single Republican MAGA JERK VOTES AGAINST ANYTHING TO HELP OUR VETERANS. They voted no!

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Anonymous wrote:Justice reform is what caused the issues.

Guess what? Some people deserve to have their lives ruined by a "silly" little carjacking charge.

omg scary. So glad there was no weapon involved.

My DD was a GS, and we worked those tables all the time. I've been to that Safeways many many times. How awful.

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/

Anonymous wrote:Justice reform is what caused the issues.

Guess what? Some people deserve to have their lives ruined by a "silly" little carjacking charge.

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts robbed outside a grocery store in Rockville. See, crime doesn't happen only in Silver Spring!

https://mocoshow.com/blog/girl-scouts-robbed-of-cookie-money-in-front-of-grocery-store/