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jag
10:23 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Wait, but I thought we were being overrun by illegal immigrants who are destroying the world as we know it and causing chaos on every street corner?!
Jeff Hawkins
10:47 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Wait, number one......who said any of that........wait, number two...........how racist of you to assume that illegal immigrants are destroying the world and causing chaos on every street corner and wait, number three..........aren't you being a little overly dramatic :)))))
jag
11:28 am on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Har har, Jeff. You know perfectly well all the anti-immigrant crap that's spewed on this site. Most of which is based on nonsensical claims about how county crime is through the roof even though it's been going down year after year after year. It's a sad and pathetic tactic used by American racists and xenophobes for generations, including by the Klan against my Irish immigrant ancestry.
Eric S.
1:52 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Thank you! I was thinking it too, but since I already hit another post (white girl from Chevy Chase caught for armed robber in G'burg -- c'mon!), I figured two posts is too many.
Seriously, why does Patch look like the WTOP comments so often?
jnrentz1
6:54 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
No amnesty of any kind for any illegal alien.
Jeff Hawkins
12:17 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
@Jag
Yes.....there is alot of anti-immigrant feelings on this site, yes there are alot anti-immigrant feelings everywhere. This article concerned a reduction in crime and that's always a good thing. I don't think they listed the crimes commited according to race, maybe hispanic crime went down, black crime up, and white crime topped them all..........who knows.....maybe it was the reverse.
Now the claims of higher crime from certain folks might very well correlate with where that person lives who's making that claim, through their eyes it might be a valid claim or at least a problem, do we discount those feelings?
Leggett and the Police recently had a community meeting in Montgomery Village to help address the "rising" crime in that area and from what I have read, it's mostly being commited by hispanic folks.
I guess the question could be, if you live in Montgomery Village and crime is rising and most of the crimes are being commited by hispanic folks, is it racist to say "most of the rising crime in my neighborhood is being commited by hispanic folks."
The Klan was indeed against Catholic's, not so much against the Irish in general. Heck, there were Irish Brigades on both sides in the Civil War, in particular at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Your Irish ancestors in general hated blacks and hispanics......we've come a long way......but we aren't there yet!
Corbin Dallas Multipass
2:27 pm on Wednesday, March 14, 2012
http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/poltmpl.asp?url=/Content/POL/media/crimeStats.asp has the excel files with stat dumps for those interested.
Jeff Hawkins
8:19 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
@Bubba
Yes indeed, those men......roughly 200 or so did "cross-over" as you say for many reasons............some not so no noble.
William Grove
10:30 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
The stats are BS. We live in Bethesda and our two cars get broken into 10 -15 times per year (mostly in summer). MCPD discourage reporting these incidents and once asked my wife, "what do you expect us to do about it?" Nasty, stupid and lazy is not what you want in a police force.
jag
11:03 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
LOL, you're joking, right? 15 times a year? I've lived in Rockville and Silver Spring for 26 years and have never even known anyone who had their car broken into in MoCo, much less had my car broken into. If you're not joking, then you should set up a camera or something because obviously someone you know is targeting you for some personal reason. There is literally no chance of you randomly being broken into 15 times a year (for multiple years??), even if you lived in the junkiest neighborhood in America and were dumb enough to leave an expensive GPS out.
William Grove
11:42 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
we live close to Western Ave and the thinking is it's DC-based and they just go down the street almost every other week from April through October. got hit last week for first time this year.
Jeff Hawkins
12:14 pm on Thursday, March 15, 2012
@William
That stinks William. Sounds like you are in the proverbial "no man's land". Are the D.C. police helping at all?
Bubba
2:34 pm on Thursday, March 15, 2012
@William Grove - in case you missed this article in the Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/amid-rash-of-car-break-ins-dc-zeroes-in-on-a-repeat-offender/2012/03/06/gIQA7hdk3R_story.html
If the break-ins are that persistent you and your neighbors need to get together and put pressure on the police to fix the problem. As the article states, there are only a handful of thieves who car break-ins. Catching and prosecuting those thieves to the fullest extent isn't going to happen without some outside influence.
jnrentz1
5:04 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012
Mr. Grove,
You should consider moving to a lower crime area.