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Sunday, June 04, 2023
Assault in Grosvenor area of Bethesda
Montgomery County police responded to a report of a 2nd-degree assault in the Grosvenor area of Bethesda early Friday evening, June 2, 2023. The assault was reported in the 5700 block of Grosvenor Lane at 6:19 PM.
Virginia has stopped telling black children in school that they are being oppressed by white people and that society owes them for the "systemic racism" they have suffered growing up in the United States.
As opposed to reports of burglaries, car thefts, and carjackings, reports of assaults are not "news you can use." It's like saying, "Someone tripped and fell, a block away from Dupont Circle." Was this an assault in a particular type of (or a particular) business establishment, or someone randomly assaulted on the street, or in a domestic dispute, or in an argument that got out of hand between acquaintances? How does any of us benefit from this report?
11:40: Our elected officials benefit politically when assaults are not reported. I generally report assaults that occur in public places - streets, businesses, etc. These are of public interest and concern regardless of circumstances. As far as any lack of more specific who-struck-john detail, your beef there is with MCPD, not me.
Thank you, Robert. I want to know about every fight that happens in my neighborhood, or at least the ones that cost me tax money for the LEO to come and arrest somebody. Not that I'm nosey, but I'm nosey.
I follow you for the local news. Good or bad. Your real estate news reporting is great. I love the photos!
While many states differentiate between assault and battery, Maryland does not. A threat of violence and the actual physical act of violence are both considered 2nd degree assault under Maryland law. You could be reporting that someone *said* they were going to slap someone. This isn't the Wild West or example of the collapse of civilization that some political cultists like to paint Bethesda as. I repeat my earlier comments, that you refused to post, that you post these regularly to support a political stance, facts be damned.
3:50 PM: Again, the failure of MCPD to provide timely, highly-detailed accounts of all crime incidents is not a shortcoming on my part. If someone is hitting, or even threatening to hit, people on a public street or in a store I patronize, I would want to be aware of this. I believe most other people would, too. Factual reporting of crime is not political.
3:24: Thank you, Shanel, I appreciate the support!
I appreciate all these posts even if they don’t have details. We need to be closely monitoring the rate at which we’re becoming San Francisco or Baltimore. Theta probably the end-state but hopefully it occurs over a few decades and it a few years.
Robert, elected officials really benefit politically from nonreporting of assaults only if there's a significant increase that's not being reported (or maybe a continuation of a high frequency of assaults). No one can legitimately blame a politician just because a few assaults happen "on his/her watch"-- it's the pattern that matters, particularly if it's related to a particular location or locations. If you were reporting on that, with regard to assaults, as opposed to each one as it happens (who's keeping track? I'm not), I wouldn't have said anything. And, 3:24, arrests shouldn't "cost you tax money," at least extra money (unless there's overtime for officers' in-court testimony)-- aren't the officers on their shifts anyway, arrests or not?
Aye, there's the rub. It's not so much the big monies that are being bandied about, it's the new sense of *being owed* and forever an excuse to 'get even' regardless of effort and / or discipline and education.
11 comments:
From 2019 but informative:
https://wjla.com/news/local/why-is-montgomery-countys-violent-crime-rate-twice-as-high-as-fairfax-countys
Virginia has stopped telling black children in school that they are being oppressed by white people and that society owes them for the "systemic racism" they have suffered growing up in the United States.
As opposed to reports of burglaries, car thefts, and carjackings, reports of assaults are not "news you can use." It's like saying, "Someone tripped and fell, a block away from Dupont Circle."
Was this an assault in a particular type of (or a particular) business establishment, or someone randomly assaulted on the street, or in a domestic dispute, or in an argument that got out of hand between acquaintances?
How does any of us benefit from this report?
11:40: Our elected officials benefit politically when assaults are not reported. I generally report assaults that occur in public places - streets, businesses, etc. These are of public interest and concern regardless of circumstances. As far as any lack of more specific who-struck-john detail, your beef there is with MCPD, not me.
Thank you, Robert. I want to know about every fight that happens in my neighborhood, or at least the ones that cost me tax money for the LEO to come and arrest somebody. Not that I'm nosey, but I'm nosey.
I follow you for the local news. Good or bad. Your real estate news reporting is great. I love the photos!
While many states differentiate between assault and battery, Maryland does not. A threat of violence and the actual physical act of violence are both considered 2nd degree assault under Maryland law.
You could be reporting that someone *said* they were going to slap someone. This isn't the Wild West or example of the collapse of civilization that some political cultists like to paint Bethesda as. I repeat my earlier comments, that you refused to post, that you post these regularly to support a political stance, facts be damned.
Do better, Mr. Dyer.
3:50 PM: Again, the failure of MCPD to provide timely, highly-detailed accounts of all crime incidents is not a shortcoming on my part. If someone is hitting, or even threatening to hit, people on a public street or in a store I patronize, I would want to be aware of this. I believe most other people would, too. Factual reporting of crime is not political.
3:24: Thank you, Shanel, I appreciate the support!
I appreciate all these posts even if they don’t have details. We need to be closely monitoring the rate at which we’re becoming San Francisco or Baltimore. Theta probably the end-state but hopefully it occurs over a few decades and it a few years.
Robert, elected officials really benefit politically from nonreporting of assaults only if there's a significant increase that's not being reported (or maybe a continuation of a high frequency of assaults).
No one can legitimately blame a politician just because a few assaults happen "on his/her watch"-- it's the pattern that matters, particularly if it's related to a particular location or locations. If you were reporting on that, with regard to assaults, as opposed to each one as it happens (who's keeping track? I'm not), I wouldn't have said anything.
And, 3:24, arrests shouldn't "cost you tax money," at least extra money (unless there's overtime for officers' in-court testimony)-- aren't the officers on their shifts anyway, arrests or not?
Me too, Robert! Your numerous blogs' 'scope' is perfect and perfectly concise, particularly when dealing with parsed out input from 'officials.'
Aye, there's the rub. It's not so much the big monies that are being bandied about, it's the new sense of *being owed* and forever an excuse to 'get even' regardless of effort and / or discipline and education.
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