Montgomery County police were called to Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda on the evening of November 12, 2024, after someone reported having been assaulted there. The assault was reported at 9:34 PM Tuesday. This was the eleventh assault reported this year at the popular mall. Only five were reported there in 2023.
This year's total is now just one away from matching the twelve assaults reported at the retail center in 2022. That led to Montgomery County police opening a "resource room" at the mall, in an attempt to combat elevated crime at the property - part of a general crime wave that has persisted countywide since 2020, after the County Council defunded the police. The police department is down 194 officers since 2020, and 179 police officer positions are now vacant, according to a County Council staff memo released earlier this year.
How many "drones" do they have?
ReplyDeleteMarriott International, the global hotel chain based in Bethesda, is gearing up to lay off hundreds of employees by the start of the new year.
DeleteMarriott plans to cut 833 jobs, according to a Maryland WARN notice on the Department of Labor website. The notice for a “mass layoff” was issued Nov. 14 and will take effect Jan. 3, 2025.
Earlier this year, the company began a review of “all aspects of Marriott International’s business” to “enhance” the company’s effectiveness, a Marriott spokesperson said in an email.
“While always difficult, these job reductions at our corporate and continent offices will reshape the way we work,” and are expected to mostly in place by the first quarter of 2025, the spokesperson wrote.
Another nail in the Moco business coffin and tax base. Dont expect this trend to reverse; this is what happens with Democratic Socialists at the helm. Business is business and wackos that ban gas blowers, seek vaccine passports and close schools for 1.75 years to ruin children dont get nice things.
Broken Windows Policies are what we need implemented.
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This is what you get when a now term limited Democratic Socialist is the CE. No one wants to work here in a public safety position, no businesses are coming here and the tax base flees at every opportunity. Wait til a couple hundred thousand federal jobs leave in the next few years.
ReplyDeleteDefunding the police is the dumbest decision in an urban population 🤨
ReplyDeleteThat's the brilliant Democratic County Council.
DeleteWhat a great idea to defund police! It’s an idiotic mind that does most harm and boy there’s no shortage of idiots!
ReplyDeleteDefunding the police. THAT was a brilliant move.
ReplyDeleteThe people should rise.up and de-fund the Montgomery County Council. Enough!!
ReplyDeleteDid you mean de-fang?
DeleteSeems odd the assaults started after the bus depot opened at the mall.
ReplyDeleteNo one "defunded" anything.
ReplyDeleteIn Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, the Council approved a budget of over $296 million for the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD), marking a 4.5 percent increase from the previous year.
Similarly, the recommended FY24 budget for MCPD was more than $295.6 million, reflecting a 4.5 percent increase from the FY22 approved budget.
In FY25, the Council approved a budget of $330 million for MCPD, representing an increase of nearly $18 million.
It's more than just defunding the police, you've caused a major crisis in Police morale by arresting police officers and intimidating them into not being able to do what is an incredibly dangerous and hard job by threatening to take away qualified immunity, you've taken the side of criminals and drug dealers, you've tried to micromanage and second guess an officers actions during violent and potentially deadly encounters with perpetrators, and so now you have a major crisis with crime on the rise and police officers scared that they will be locked up or lose everything if a violent encounter goes wrong. Good job!that's exactly what the criminals want.iys going to be a long time before the police will trust in a way that allows them to do their job correctly.
Delete7:49: I notice you conveniently skipped over the defunding that took place in the heady fiscal years right after the George Floyd Revolution in 2020, such as the FY-2021 budget.
DeleteYour argument doesn't get much stronger in the years you did cite, as there is a twofold strategy implemented by the County Council and other Defund-the-Police bodies around the country: 1) an increase that is too small to cover rising funding needs, thereby functioning as a budget cut in practice, and 2) funding increases that target areas that won't actually crack down on crime or increase street personnel, but are misrepresented to the public to suggest they will.
We are too busy working on vaccine passports and banning gas blowers. The “leadership” of this County embodies all that is wrong with America, 🇺🇸, maybe there will be a trickledown from the glorious election rout we just enjoyed!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the ribbon cutting and banner raising ceremonies !
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ReplyDeleteFools they will never defund the police ! They have all the resources they need and tons of funds placed in different grants and unions ! They just greedy as hell. Like any other government agency ! An they allow the chaos to pursue because without it how will they keep a job! Everyone just make the right choices and stop living like a air head just go home when the sun goes down it’s ok that’s what normal people do
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