The Kenwood neighborhood in Chevy Chase has posted new signs at entrances to the community warning would-be criminals of security measures they face if they proceed. "No soliciting" has been a longstanding policy in Kenwood for decades. The new signs include a new warning that there is 24-hour video surveillance in Kenwood. They also make note of another longtime Kenwood practice, a private security guard driving throughout the community at all hours, something that does appear to keep crime down in Kenwood relative to adjacent communities. On the new sign, they are now noting that the guards are "off duty law enforcement," slightly more intimidating than the older signs that referred to them as "Private Security Service."
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Coming to every neighborhood in the immediate area no doubt. Hillmead would be a logical next spot. They've done this in the nicer neighborhoods in Atlanta where, in one case, an older woman was murdered in her kitchen and in another, and in a bizarre coincidence, a DC native was killed in a car jacking right outside a full scale country club. That's what will have to happen at this stage. Neighborhoods will have to ban together and pay dues to afford a modern "digital neighborhood watch" system. Cops can't and won't do it. No morale, no recruits, no support.
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We really have nothing to worry about, crime will stay in Silver Spring and Wheaton. There's been a few shootings over there in the last week but none here. Not to worry.
So if the "hired guns" used for "security" are off duty MoCo PoPo, will they be less inclined or more inclined to actually provide real protection since private funds are paying for their services? Will they use weapons or put their lives on the line like the oath all recruits recite after graduating from the academy? How is this going to work, like, in reality?
8:48: Under federal law, off-duty officers are allowed to carry their service weapons, even outside of their jurisdiction. The express idea of this post-9/11 federal law was that all law enforcement officers would be in a position to respond to incidents they might witness while off-duty, and can use their firearm (with certain exceptions, such as if they have been consuming alcohol).
Nowadays fewer and fewer LEOs, off duty, or on duty, are going to get in harm's way to be hurt and / or second guessed. Like the ubiquitous leaf blowers, their scope is to move the problem detritus elsewhere. The reality is that it all ends up *somewhere*.
I remember the time when federal agents tried to arrest someone who was viewing pornography on the computer at a local library - I believe it was Little Falls.
You'd figure that Elrich voters living elsewhere in MoCo would be outraged at the privilege at these Kenwood Residents are exercising by paying for their own police force, but it's crickets.
You'd also figure that these Kenwood Residents would realize their own hypocrisy if they voted for Elrich who's responsible for the crime surge in MoCo and the undersized police force that's unable to prevent crime, but no.... These residents actually proved that additional police are desperately needed to prevent crime, but they don't want the rest of the County to benefit from having these additional police. These Kenwood Residents just want them for their own neighborhood because they're rich enough to afford them. What privilege, right Shanel?
Do they get to use county squad cars? Will they use the blue lights to 'scare' (loosely) the hooligans into the unpoliced areas of the county?
@3:25 AM: Off-Duty cops with a take-home vehicle get to use it I'm sure.
See here under Benefits: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/jobs/pol-officer-benefits.html
8. Eligibility to participate in take home police car program after 18 months of employment
Also see here: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/POL/Resources/Files/PDF/Directives/400/FC423_Vehicle%20Policy_ksp%20.pdf
Do they think criminals read these signs? Maybe they should just say "Please don't rob or hurt us, go somewhere else where there are even fewer po-po."
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