Montgomery County police responded to a report of a stolen vehicle near Suburban Hospital yesterday morning. The vehicle was parked along the street in the 8600 block of Garfield Street. It is believed the vehicle was stolen sometime between 11:00 PM Wednesday night and 7:00 AM Thursday morning.
MoCo Council is just not interested in solving this problem.
ReplyDeleteThe police need much better funding. They need a fleet of bait cars. When caught, these criminals need to be sent to prison for 10 years so they can tell all their friends it's not a good idea to do this in MoCo.
That's how this stops.
Tell us, oh wise one, how much more funding does MCPD need? So far the funding goes up and the quality goes down.
ReplyDelete@6:36 AM - You do realize this is no longer the twenty century, and your ideas would get laughed at by criminal of today. Nice try though Mrs. Cleaver.
ReplyDelete@7:44 AM: MCPD needs more funding to hire more officers so that there's a more visible police presence throughout the county to deter crimes such as these. This isn't complicated. I blame the MoCo Council for its failure to do that. I guess you don't.
ReplyDeleteWhen the police have to open a new mini station at Montgomery Mall, you know we've got problems.
ReplyDeleteCrime wasn't discussed much during the campaigns this cycle and than debating police in schools. Not a word about crime solutions on our local councilman's campaign site. If he's "data driven", there's plenty of data on crime spiking.
@9:55 AM: Exactly right.
ReplyDelete@8:16 AM: Let's hear your solution.
ReplyDelete@6:36AM Has the only proper, correct & spot-on comments on any of Roberts' story postings and we need more folks here B-town who feel that way AND comment that way. The rest of yiz' please go back to whence you came...
ReplyDelete9:55, Why is it a bad thing if police open a sub-station at a mall? Doesn't that provide greater community visibility? "Share a Jamba Juice with a cop, today from 2-4, lower level" Doesn't that additional space allow them to spend more time nearer their patrol areas in that part of the district --which extends from Great Falls to Piney Meetinghouse Road, S. Glen to Montrose & 270-- instead of having to drive all the way back to Rugby Avenue to do paperwork? Or is it more desirable for police to spend more time commuting to and from their assigned patrol areas to the 2D offices in Bethesda Triangle.
ReplyDeleteCrime has been spiking everywhere in the United States since 2019, when Covid hove into view. We're nothing special. Yes, we should all be safer. Yes, crime should be lower. Yes, crime is rising everywhere --urban, suburban, and rural, locally and nationally, and has been since the virus arrived.
8:04pm - yes, crime has been rising, but it's been since the summer of BLM protests and the lawlessness associated with them.
Delete2:33 These folks are self-compelled to parrot the "progressive" talking points about crime/police, etc. The rational explanation that defunding or otherwise hampering cops from doing their jobs hurts the very folks they claim to be protecting: blacks and other minorities the most.
ReplyDelete"MCPD needs more funding to hire more officers so that there's a more visible police presence throughout the county to deter crimes such as these. This isn't complicated."
ReplyDeleteMCPD already has dozens of unfilled officer positions. The council adding even more funding for even more vacancies solves literally nothing.