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  • Carjacked in the capital

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 24 12:59:08 2025
    Carjacked in the capital: The 'crime of the pandemic' is still roiling
    D.C.

    Over the past 18 months, the number of carjackings has dropped sharply
    in the Washington area. But they still remain far above pre-pandemic
    levels.
    ...
    ...
    "It became the crime of the pandemic," said Chuck Wexler, executive
    director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a D.C.-based
    organization of current and former law enforcement officials focused
    on improving policing. "And the reason you still have it is because
    juveniles learned how to do it. That presents a lot of challenges for
    the justice system."
    ...
    ...
    Peter Newsham was entering his fourth year as the chief of
    Washington's Metropolitan Police Department when Covid began to sweep
    across the country. Crime skyrocketed in D.C. and other major cities
    spurred by a perfect storm of factors, including school closures, mass
    layoffs and social unrest following the death of George Floyd.

    "I had never seen anything like it in my time in Washington, D.C.,"
    said Newsham, who joined the force in 1989.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/carjacked-capital-crime-pandemic-still-roiling-dc-rcna224655

    juveniles learned how to do it

    And how is Trump's plan going to fix it?

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to JAB on Sun Aug 24 20:33:47 2025
    On Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:59:08 -0500, JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

    juveniles learned how to do it

    And how is Trump's plan going to fix it?

    NBC News
    Carjacked in the capital: The 'crime of the pandemic' is still roiling
    D.C. 15 hours ago

    What can those troops, FBI, etc. do to prevent juvenile carjacking?

    It's being done in neighborhoods, etc. Juveniles are not going to do
    it where the "troops" are....

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  • From Mike Spencer@21:1/5 to JAB on Fri Aug 29 03:46:31 2025
    JAB <here@is.invalid> writes:

    What can those troops, FBI, etc. do to prevent juvenile carjacking?

    There's a story, decades ago, from South Africa: A guy comes into the
    cop shop to report his Mercedes stolen. The desk officer takes the
    report and the guy sits down to wait. The desk officeer tells him
    that it could be days, weeks or never before his car is found. The
    guy says he'll wait anyhow.

    A couple of hours later, his car comes in on the hook with four dead
    guys in it.

    The car owner had left a quart of whiskey in a paper bag on the back seat.
    The whiskey was laced with cyanide.

    FWIW

    --
    Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere on Fri Aug 29 12:15:34 2025
    On 29 Aug 2025 03:46:31 -0300, Mike Spencer
    <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

    What can those troops, FBI, etc. do to prevent juvenile carjacking?

    There's a story

    On a different note, the DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has puckered up her
    lips and said crime is down, and sure Donald, spending 2 billion on DC
    is a great idea. But, "D.C. Democrats rebuke Mayor Muriel Bowser's
    comments that Trump's surge reduced crime"
    ===============================

    Members of the Washington, D.C. City Council are pushing back against
    Mayor Muriel Bowser's remarks that President Donald Trump's surge of
    federal law enforcement personnel into the city has helped lower
    crime.

    "As I feared, our Mayor's words are now being used to justify harmful
    federal overreach in cities nationwide. This is bigger than DC -- or
    partisan politics. It's about resisting creeping authoritarianism,"
    Ward 5 Councilmember Zachary Parker wrote in a post on X, adding, "we
    must not legitimize an illegitimate agenda."

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dc-democrats-rebuke-mayor-muriel-bowsers-comments-that-trumps-surge-reduced-crime/ar-AA1LqnaL

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