> Not DA, USAO

Sometimes, I read these threads and wonder how many of them live even remotely in the region given that they seem to be ready to comment on who does what in a given area while getting the basic facts wrong.

In /r/Baltimore, as an example, there was guy who was saying that the crime was the fault of the Mayor because he is apparently too afraid to fire the District Attorney.

Note that Baltimore has a States Attorney and it's an elected position over which the Office of the Mayor has precisely zero control.

Here, we have a user who doesn't even know which party is responsible for undertaking in the act of criminal prosecutions in the District. Likewise, between 3 different city subreddits I actively participate in, and the way it frequently pops up in other subreddits, the number of times I see the "tHe DA dOeSn'T pRoSeCuTe CrImInAlS" trope is hilarious - especially after what happened in San Francisco. ^^^^[archived]

In other cases, it becomes blatantly obvious when the right-wing "let police do their jobs" crowd that doesn't live in a city comes in to a thread.

Case in point: In /r/LosAngeles, during the run up to the General Election, a user who claimed to be resident of 2 years who had apparently moved from Chicago (lmao, sure) spoke about how Los Angeles has gotten worse under the leadership of Karen Bass... who - up until she took office as the newly elected Mayor of Los Angeles two weeks ago - had never held elected office in the City of Los Angeles.