Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days

Anonymous wrote:I don't recall ATVs being on a ballot? I don't recall a ballot measure saying police can't do the job either.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a MPD cop that chased down an ate rider and killed them a couple years ago. Is that what you were hoping for OP?

Because of people like you, we probably have to wait for a stoned 14 year old doing a wheelie on ATV to run over a baby in a stroller in a crosswalk before anyone will do anything about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days

Driving while stoned or drunk: no penalty, unless you crash into someone or something.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the officer's statement (assuming he said it). Isn't it illegal to ride ATVs in the streets? So was he told not to arrest people doing it?

Yes, they are told not to arrest because it disproportionally criminalizes Black and brown behavior.

Politicians forget that the erosion of quality of life this causes also disproportionately impacts Black and brown community members.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days

Driving while stoned or drunk: no penalty, unless you crash into someone or something.

That's a road design issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days

Driving while stoned or drunk: no penalty, unless you crash into someone or something.

Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way a cop said that. That would be wildly, wildly unprofessional.

OP here. He 100% said it. I have lived in DC over 25 years and have had many conversations with cops about crime. They are more frustrated than citizens on the revolving door of catch and release of criminals. Over and over.

Citizens didn't vote for the decisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office to release criminals.

They voted for the Council members who applauded those decisions and tried to rewrite DC's criminal code to make it even harder to punish violent criminals in a move that was so laughably tin-eared that even many national Democrats disagreed with it.

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way a cop said that. That would be wildly, wildly unprofessional.

OP here. He 100% said it. I have lived in DC over 25 years and have had many conversations with cops about crime. They are more frustrated than citizens on the revolving door of catch and release of criminals. Over and over.

Citizens didn't vote for the decisions of the U.S. Attorney's Office to release criminals.

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Anonymous wrote:There's no way a cop said that. That would be wildly, wildly unprofessional.

OP here. He 100% said it. I have lived in DC over 25 years and have had many conversations with cops about crime. They are more frustrated than citizens on the revolving door of catch and release of criminals. Over and over.

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Anonymous wrote:The far left needs to stop demonizing the police. That's where all this comes from.

Pretty hard to respect them when their position is "let us kill black people with impunity, or else we won't do any work at all."

Yeah, you sound crazy.

What's even crazier is the left won't let cops do their jobs, but they also won't fire all the cops because they know defunding the police is toxic politically. The result: Taxpayers have to foot the bill for a gianormous police force that isn't allowed to do any policing.

Anonymous wrote:Let me remind everyone how traffic laws work in DC:

12 year old driving an ATV down the middle of Connecticut Avenue during rush hour: no penalty

Moped driver blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Motorcyclist blowing stop sign at 40 mph: no penalty

Cyclist with infant placed in basket in front of bike: no penalty

Cyclist with two small children on back with no helmets: no penalty

Car driver going 50 mph in a 25 mph zone with no traffic cameras: no penalty

Car driver doesnt stop at stop sign for full three seconds at empty intersection with camera: $100, doubled after 30 days