Montgomery County police responded to a report of an aggravated assault at Westfield Montgomery Mall at lunchtime yesterday, January 12, 2023. The assault, which involved a weapon that was not a firearm, was reported at the mall at 12:00 PM Thursday. This was the 13th assault reported at the mall since May 18, 2022, but the first of 2023.
That police resource center is doing as good a job as Mayor Pete at DOT. Defund, demoralize the police and this is what you get. Funding? Well, even if they increased police funding, that doesn't solve the recruitment issue. Most county residents have no idea that the police training academy has a dangerously low enrollment right now. That's a huge problem.
ReplyDeleteBring a Montgomery Donuts to the food court to help with police presence.
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DeleteHow many second-degree assaults were there in Montgomery Mall in 2019?
ReplyDeleteJust wondering whether anyone caught and convicted of committing this type of crime at the Montgomery Mall is banned by the Mall (and/or the court) from returning to it, ever or for a specified period of time.
ReplyDeleteI was at the mall today, Friday the 13th, at around 4pm and it looked like an after school party was being held. Groups of brats from the neighbor-hood schools, many being dropped off by their parents, just running around creating mischievous havoc, and generally getting in the way of shoppers. Many of the girls I saw were dressed in bare necessities, even though it was in the low 40s outside. I haven't been here on weekends in a month of Sundays, but I wonder if this occurs during those hours. This was quite disturbing for me, and for some elderly shoppers I saw, who looked quit bothered by the behavior of these youths.
ReplyDeleteThe Mall needs to do better at policing itself, as their security was seen fraternizing with the problem, and not leaving security issues primarily in the hands of MCPD. Also, these issues are not in any way the problems of "Elrich".
So 9:21 wants less tolerance for bad behavior and dress code yet in the second paragraph exonerates Elrich, (and the council by implication).
ReplyDeleteElrich is responsible for demoralizing and restricting what police are able to do so the move to place a substation there as a "show" of force is just that and the bad actors know it. The private security the mall has can do even less.
That stupid Maryland House Bill 459 called The Juvenile Justice Reform Act needs to be repealed. That surely didn't help. All it did was increase crime.
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