Kinda of gross that you would be defending a violent criminal with a long and “distinguished” record of crime in DC, dragging people with stolen cars, and putting a lot of other people at risk.

I’m not cheerleading the “death”. I am cheerleading the removal of a violent criminal from DC streets. There was no reason to die, but he made that choice all of his own volition.

The US Park Police…doing the work the MPD refuses to do.

This ain’t rocket science. They need turnstyles that people can’t jump. Not sure how places like NYC figured this out in the 80s and Metro is still confused by it.

That is an enormous effect. Dimorphis was 560 feet in diameter. It was about the size and mass of the great Pyramid at Giza. If it hit the earth, it would completely destroy everything within a 10 mile radius and creat earth quakes that would be felt up to 1000 miles away. It would be worse if it hit water as the tsunami effect would flood nearly 70% of the globes ocean coast lines, killing an untold number.

If we can redirect something that size, then it should scale upwards from there. Just need to detect it early enough

“Muh it’s lower since the crack addict “mayor for Life” Marion Barry was in office so quit ur bitchin” lol…

8.9%? That’s it?

The national average for CPI last year was 7.5%, nearly the same the year before, and that the national average. It’s more in HCOLareas like DC.

So while no one likes their rent going up, you can’t uncouple the cost of rent from the cost of maintaining that roof over your head.

I’m always amazed at the multiple levels of failure for stuff like this.

Let’s assume the order from DC to the vendor was correct (iffy, but let’s make that assumption).

Then the person at the printer screwed up setting the template. Then the person boxing/shipping screwed up.

Then it got to DPW and the person unboxing didn’t notice, nor did the crew hanging them, or the supervisor managing the crew doing it. I’ve seen miss spelled flags and signs stay up for months until someone tweets it and the city is embarrassed enough to fix it.

At the very minimum, 5 sets of eyes missed this, and DC probably payed a kings ransom to pay for it all.

Embarrassing.

That’s simply not true. The websites for Cap Police and NPS Police even reference reaching them via 911.

DCs office of unified communications gets the 911 call and then depending where it is, routes the NPS, the Cap Police etc to the scene.

Dude, you can’t dismiss 16 years of both declining cop counts and murders because “muh, crack in the 1990s”, yet then think 2 years during Covid when murders were increasing nationally( and is now declining) is “finally” indicative of DCs declining cop counts showing up in the murder rate?

You can’t possibly be that daft. Or you must be a cop, and not a bright one at that.

Cheers mate, go on believing DC isn’t the most policied city in America.

Lol…you aren’t equipped for this.

Peak DC cop numbers were 1999. It’s been slowly declining since.

Yet murders steadily declined for the next 13 years despite MPD losing hundreds of cops.

Less cops yet fewer murders for 13 years. Explain.

Then 2015-2019, the number of murders stayed statistically static, despite MPD losing hundreds more. Explain.

Your argument is juvenile and o Lu works if you exclude decades of data precovid and data showing the murder rate increase in DC for that 2 year Covid period was mirrored exactly across the cities in the rest of the nation. It was a national trend, not a local anomaly.

Back to the kids table son, the adults are speaking.

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I have my data from MPDs website. You are the one making the outlandish claims that aren’t supported by DC or any other cities data (more cops = less murder” so you must have some other source of data. Link it here.

Link your data.

Also, what’s your excuse for both significantly more cops, significantly lower population and 2X the number of murders through the 1990s?

That can’t be explained if more cops = less murder.

No it doesn’t. Full stop. Also, quit moving the goal lines. You’ve lost this argument, admit it like an adult and move on. DC is the most overpoliced City in the nation despite adjacent LE agencies taking enormous responsibility from MPD

Lol…talking about “juking the numbers” that’s exactly what you did, no?

You used 2013, probably because it was a highly anomalous year that sold the story you wanted to tell with the second lowest number of homicides on record. A number that immediate shot up in the year and second year following when there were the same number of cops.

In 2010 when the number of DC cops was higher by 38,there were 30% more homicides than in 2013. How is that possible if your correlation to the number of cops and murders is supposedly true?

In 2008, when the number of DC cops was higher by 50, the number of murders was 83% higher than in 2013? How is that possible?

You are only right if correlation = causation, which simply is t true.

DC literally has more cops per capita than any other US city, by a margin, despite our coos having fewer responsibilities.

Back in 2011, MPD had roughly 3,900 officers and the city recorded over 7,000 violent crimes and made 44,000 arrests. Last year, though, MPD had about 300 fewer officers — and there were just over 4,100 violent crimes and 16,900 arrests.

Draw your own conclusions but the numbers say your conclusions are highly selective, immaterial and nearly identical to the increased murder rate across the nation, not just DC.

DC has 25% more cops per capita than NYC (whose cops also patrol their transit system).

20% more than Chicago, 30% more than Boston and Detroit, twice as many cops per capita as LA.

And again, this doesn’t include all the other adjacent police agencies in DC that reduce MPDs overall responsibility.

“Lowest number since 1970s blah blah blah” DC population is current 100,000 less than that period so of course the police count would be lower.

DCs issue isn’t that it doesn’t have enough LEOs. It’s that it’s LEOs are shit and the DC Council ties their hands.

The District has more cops per capita than ANY city in the US.

Better yet, that’s doesn’t include the thousands of addition LEOs who have jurisdiction over areas of the District.

The NPS has police jurisdiction over RCP and the National Mall.

The Capitol Police are thousands in number and have jurisdiction over Cap Hill and adjacent neighborhoods.

The Federal Police have responsibility over every Federal building not patrolled by the NPS or Cap Police.

The Transit Police have responsibility over Metro.

These additional agencies total nearly 4,000 additional LEOs. I mean, Jesus. DC has more cops per capita and yet doesn’t have responsibility to patrol 25% of the city land, any of the federal buildings, nor its transit system.

The audience this is aimed at…it’s immaterial because they still wouldn’t use it if the service was free.

The family of 3 or 4 coming to DC for the day or the weekend, don’t have time to waste parking at some far off metro station, waiting for off peak trains every 20 minutes to get downtown (and then back).

As I type this (just checked on Google) it would take you 38 minutes to drive from Shady Grove to the Air and Space downtown. It’s 59 minutes on Metro. Add in all the time for folks to fumble with metro cards for their kids, missing trains, not understanding how to use Metro, what lines to take etc, you are losing a minimum of an hour of your day, and that’s if the system works perfectly.

Now add in the cost. Family of 4, $4 bucks per trip. That’s $16 each way, or $32. That’s not going to break anyone’s bank but people would rather just drive downtown, pay the $20 it costs to park for the day and not have to worry about Metro.

It’s just not a great set up for tourists and we should stop pretending it is.

Getting a job in a Smithsonian museum is like getting a job in academia. It’s absolutely impossible because you have to wait for someone to die for a position to be vacated.

Museum jobs like that are the crème de la crème for folks in that field, and between the reality that there are so few of them, and that people keep them for life once they have them, it’s unlikely your friend will ever get one because when they come available every person who ever graduated in Museum studies anywhere in the world is applying for it.

A former college roommate who had worked his entire career as a lawyer and had reached partner status at DCs second most famous law firm, quit when he was 44 and went to work for the National Park Service making about 1/12th what he made before. Spent a few years in DC doing National Mall management stuff and then moved to Yosemite where he now spends all day maintaining walking trails, doing tours etc living in a cabin.

He had a borderline breakdown from the stress as a lawyer but the dude couldn’t be happier now.

The NYC convenience rule is a thing and holy shit do they enforce it. The state was losing billions a year in early Covid because all the New Yorkers went elsewhere while keeping their NYC based jobs.

You won’t pay twice, but NY will get their piece, and it ain’t small.

Also, be 100% sure that you alcan forever work remote 100% of the time. I once made that mistake (lived in DC and worked for a firm with its office in NYC) and after 6 months it was “hey, can you just come up one day a week” and escalated from there to 3 or 4 days a week and that commute sucks. I finally found another job after a year of that bullshit because it was stressing me out.

Lol..GOP just jelly that this supposed “shit hole” city is so economically productive it pays more federal income taxes than 22 states, 20 of the GOP states with significantly higher populations.

The days of the “Mayor for Life” Marion “Murder - Catch and a release ” Barry are back baby!

There really isn’t earth based math. There is just math. Any species that can figure out either long term generation space flight and navigation, or faster than light travel, can figure it out.

Had kid at Sibley in September. They gave you a yellow folder after the birth of your kid. It had birth certificate Forms in it. You were asked to fill them out before you left so that the hospital could do the paperwork.

If you did, they submitted the data to DC dept of vital records. You will have to go online to their website and request / pay for the birth certificate.

DC Sept of vital records will submit your newborns info to the social security administration and you should get a social security card in the mail within 6 weeks if birth. If you don’t within 8 weeks, call social security as something is amiss.

Yeah, 75% of all excess natural gas in the US was rerouted to Europe in March to assist the Germans, Belgians, Frence and Scandinavians build a stockpile for this winter now that they aren’t getting it from Russia.

That’s not a problem for Americans in the summer when our heating demand is low. Once winter hits however, it drives the price of the remaining gas into the stratosphere.