There’s plenty of mandatory overtime, forced doubles, and backfill going on in high-crime areas on the taxpayer’s dime and almost every summer many districts start canceling days off in the summer. There’s no shortage of government time. With the amount of cancelled days off and forced overtime many people work the equivalent of thirteen to fifteen months a year. The difference between this and a BID slot is that department overtime is on the taxpayers dime and you can be compelled to do it while BID overtime (and other details like the Nats) are voluntary and it’s privately funded. If you choose to do on your time it’s the officers decision.

Also- nobody is making $100 an hour- usually BID slots are straight time (ie whatever your normal wage is) or time and a half for a few hours a night. Most BID overtime guys aren’t looking to make lockups- they’re there for visibility and deterrence and if nothing pops off while they’re there than they’ve done their job and the BID is happy. If there is an arrest (likely Simple Assault, Unlawful Entry, theft, etc.) most never go to trial so court pay never happens. Besides, almost nobody loves Court here- it’s often on your day off or not your shift, and parking sucks compared to suburban court houses.

They’ll have all the normal authority- the BID is contracting with the department for people to work off-duty overtime.

Even easier would be for the District to move all marathons to 295/695 or just have them run loops on the mall and save us all the hassle.

They’re just farming out everything to private labs or federal labs depending on the stage of the case.

No clue on whether labs cooperate around here- they just spit the reports back out a few months after arrest.

If you’re going to a preliminary hearing, the case has been papered already. The US Attorney generally isn’t going to immediately drop a case at that point.

She’s not wrong- they could use some more people. And things like DNA testing, finger prints, cell site results, tower dumps, and other forensics take weeks to months to come back which doesn’t help. If we had people join up and police like the WAVE unit does in MD and VA we might also get more people but that would require accepting some potential liability.

And the council could help by passing some laws allowing for extended detentions when probable cause is found in a preliminary hearing for carjacking and gun possession. The guys doing these are often doing them in sprees and having them off the street even for an extra week or two will slow down the pace of carjackings and car thefts.

695 over the Potomac or 295 up to the MD line at Eastern.

You’re not going to find a lot of respite in the city. Have you considered the suburbs?

Alternative is finding an older building west of the park that’s built like a nuclear bunker.

Chocoflan at Taqueria Xochi.

#2 M? It’ll catch a stray bullet from time to time and there’s occasional drama like any building. You’ll probably also have your car broken into at some point.

Does this have anything to do with the zoo stopping the affiliation with FONZ?

The police part is bullshit- by policy there’s no involvement in evictions and if they do show up call for a supervisor.

Yes it works but it’s slower to dispatch versus calling 911 and being a ‘concerned citizen’

“Visible involvement from the Metropolitan Police Department, he added, could be a game-changer.”

You’re going to need to let MPD impound for owed tickets, fake tags, etc and make room at Blue Plains or open another lot so they can hold these cars until tags obtained, insurance obtained, tickets partially paid,etc.

Theres going to be a lot of screaming and complaining from the progressive non-Urbanist set because the demographic numbers that this will effect will probably be lopsided and skewed towards the poor. Ultimately both wings of the progressive political spectrum and DC are going to have to find a middle ground to make Vision Zero work because half of the traffic deaths are in poor black areas despite a smaller population share:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/10/27/dc-vision-zero-traffic-deaths/#:~:text=The%20city%20recorded%2040%20traffic,year%2C%20D.C.%20police%20records%20show.

No problem- DPW is the worst and there’s zero accountability when they don’t out things in whatever database they use/teletype. There’s a not insignificant number of stolen auto cases that I get that are DPW tow jobs.

Not shocked, seen DPW do tows and not put them in the system all the time. I’d try (202) 541-6083 every so often to see if the driver called DPW/put it in Teletype. Also check to see later if there was a ticket issued. Might give you some kind of clue if they wrote the ticket for the drop-off location. Otherwise I’d call MPD and ask to have it put in as an ‘Attempt to Locate’

Seconded- they do look like they’re for this.

The jury right starts when a crime has a sentence six months or greater. That’s why DC Code currently has a split between charges that have 180 days max sentence vs. six months and above. Looking it up in SCOTUS it’s Baldwin v New York.

That, or more cases will get dropped. DC residents will love getting several times the amount of jury summons.

Ideally they could build a second courthouse EOTR and run some classes cases through there and take the pressure off 500 Indiana Avenue.

Being MPD I’m dreading Every. Fucking. Case. that’s worth prosecuting being an all-day court affair. It’ll be good for the junior AUSAs to get trial experience I guess.