Your point is what exactly. From the same article you shared:

“Saldo says she encourages people to put trackers in their cars and hopes others don’t have to go through what she did.”

Of course, police should be held accountable. I think, Saldo was using the media to hold police accountable. But, let’s be clear, Saldo still suggested people use tracking devices in their own cars, and hoped in holding the police accountable - with her media messaging - they would correct their mistake of not marking the police car stolen in the future.

Final note: This happened in 2021, I hope there are not anymore articles similar. That is to say, perhaps Saldo holding police accountable caused them to fix the issue.

You’d have to get me drunker than Cooter Brown to try to get my car back from any criminal. However, as I noted, I would call the police and give them the lead. I would hope, they would pursue the individual(s), and I have no reason to believe they wouldn’t.

In truth, it sounds like the police have a staffing shortage. Constructively, citizens helping the police due to staff shortages sounds like a positive thing to do. Of course, it is not ideal, but what is in life exactly?

If I haven’t said it enough, I will say it again: put an AirTag in your car. If evidence takes 66 days to process, it is unlikely you will catch the criminals for months. If you have a tracking device in your car, police have a solid lead on where the criminals went, and the police can follow the lead to get the criminals.

Note: Hide the tag somewhere extremely hard to find and/or get to. Perhaps a nook inside of your trunk. These criminals are creative but we can beat them.

I read the article. The comments here are so empathic, insightful, and knowledgeable. This is not an easy issue to fix, it will take time. I hope the Mayor, Council, Police, and the DC AG come up with a coordinated response to address a couple hundred of kids terrorizing the city. Expungeable prohibition should only be offered to first time offenders.

As mentioned by another, the Wolfgang cohort study seems to point to some of the underlying issues: poverty, low academic achievement, and family disruption. All of those are personal problems, which the government can assist with, but the larger community has little impact on. The Mayor has created a basic income (to address poverty), she also has increased tutoring services (to address low academic achievement), and she seems to have a lot of shelters to help those who need transitional housing (to address family disruption, case in point abusive relationships). If troubled children commit crime, at this point, they need to be held accountable. The city has a myriad of resources, families must seek them out or their children will be stuck in this vicious cycle of criminality.

People are empathic but are becoming tired.

You rock!

I love Tatte.

Girl. Come join us. Plenty of us out here already doing exactly what you suggested. Tote kidding!

Girl. Nope - I have told myself every time I hear a loud noise “it is a firework, it is a firework, etc.”. It’s gotten to the point now, at times, I need someone to tell me the truth.

Signed, A person with one nerve and gunshots - all to common - wont take it!

No one is saying people can not share their experiences. What we collectively can’t do, is allow our experience to obscure the facts. We need a thorough investigation of the incident. Do police forces have an OIG?

When public safety, human lives, and larger institutional narratives are at play, we should follow the facts, and not our assumptions/feelings.

My first rental was in Trinidad in 2015. Boy - things have changed enormously since then. To some degree, development has been slow but is on track to pick up. If you are buying in the area, expect to see a big uptick in equity in 5-10 years. For example, Hechinger Mall currently is dilapidated, and has a ton of folks meandering around it. If you are newer to the area, please be situational aware in that area.

In reality, as some have pointed out you will have to be a little more situationally aware in Trinidad/Bladensburg than other parts of the city. With that said, you know the area is slowly being redeveloped, which often times increases public safety.

Development Tracker:

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/the-residential-developments-bursting-from-the-starburst-intersection/17318

Since you think, I am delusional, I should share my logic with you. First, as the central and chief policy-making body for the District of Columbia, the Council's mission is to provide strong, innovative and effective leadership for the benefit of residents across the city. In Anita Bonds case, she was given oversight over the District of Columbia’s Housing Authority (DCHA). The last Director of DCHA, Tyrone Garrett, openly admitted his strategy was to “remove about a quarter of its public housing stock from federal ownership” and “demolish or gut 10 apartment buildings”. You would think, with such an aggressive and/or controversial plan that Anita Bonds would closely monitor the process. Nope. Instead, she neglected her duties, and allowed for occupant rates to dip, housing to become inhabitable (mold, persistent crime, etc.), and basically she didn’t care!

Now tell me again, how oversight wasn’t her job?

The Council's central role as a legislative body is to make laws.

I personally think we should hold those who have oversight roles accountable. So, yes, I believe the buck stops with Anita Bonds. She should have provided adequate oversight. Truthfully, if she had provided overisight we would not have these entrenched problems.

It sure DOES seem that way. On a personal level, I thought she was lovely (someone I would not mind having tea with). On a professional level, I kept thinking why is she in this role?

Guh. I hate developers who break up homes, they are the worst. I do like when they develop corner lots and leave them as SFH - not divided up multi-family dwellings. Those are the worst!

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Then explain why she was crying recently?

Right. This *IS* Anita Bonds fault. No one elses. We need a targeted campaign to make her - and Vincent Gray - to encourage her to resign.

>nd then extended the upper floor over the other house. I have no idea what the inside looks like as the one unit was newly constructed but it’s got 2 AC units and now window units in all the rooms. It was absolutely constructed this way for the per bedroom situation.

You flip houses? We might need to talk. Looking to purchase later this year!

Disclaimer: This is highly speculative but it might explain things.

Ah, yes, Executive Director of District of Columbia Public Housing, Brenda Donald, looked as if she had just had a good cry at a recent public event. I could not put my finger on it, as this was a celebratory event, I kept thinking why would she look so sad. This article MIGHT explain why she had been crying: most likely the Mayor let her know the article was coming out and she would need to resign.

Referenced event can be seen here. Note: You can literally see she had been crying.

Your IBS sounds like it might negatively impact major life activities such as work. The episodic nature of your disability sure sounds like it could impact your commute too. Sounds REASONABLE to ask for an ACCOMMODATION of workplace flexibility to manage your illness. Lol. 💅🏾

It does. It is. And the oversight body OPM is where exactly? Lol.

I understand and agree with you. What you might not understand, is there are some of us who are aware of this clear guidance/legal direction not being followed. So, yes, there are much more than “zero” federal employees who are teleworking outside of the region (I.e. National Capital Region) and getting paid non-regional D.C. area locality pay. Please. Do. Not. Shoot the messenger!

I am describing entrenched and systemic issues. Agencies have long used highly “creative” interpretations of legal statues. I am also pointing out a lack of oversight by OPM. These two phenomena are not exclusive to any one administration, they are two highly systematic problems that is highly entrenched. Review the PLUM and see how many political appointees manage government, who are often ignorant of the law or find creative ways to skirt around it! OPM doesn’t do much auditing, so problem become highly probable and/or entrenched.

Ah, yes, OPM was so helpful in this article right? Standard comms. 101 boiler plate responses. Suggesting media refer to their official report on telework. Honest question: Is OPM auditing agencies Telework Managing Officer’s agency data around Telework, as it is stipulated in the Telework Enhancement Act of 2010?