Gumburcules t1_jeef8du wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:40 PM

Reply to comment by BrightThru2014 in Glenmont redline racist incident march 30th, 2023 by Key_Ad_7299

Because arresting people is the police's job and prosecuting people is the USAO's job.

"Why should I review grants if the panel does not approve 70% of applicants?"

"Why should I conduct interviews if the hiring manager tells 70% of them they didn't get the job?"

"Why should I give college counseling if 70% of students don't get accepted to college?"

See how dumb that sounds in other jobs? Why should it be any different for police?

BrightThru2014 t1_jeeg084 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:47 PM

Do you know how human nature works? If my job is to write policy proposals, and I get paid regardless of how many policy proposals I write, and my boss doesn’t even read most of my memos, guess what I will be writing far fewer policy memos than if my boss actually read them.

Gumburcules t1_jeeh3yg wrote on March 31, 2023 at 12:55 PM

Except the USAO is reviewing the cases, and they're determining that in 70% of cases they can't make a case. And in some nonzero number of cases the reason is precisely because of the shitty police work done by the arresting officers.

So in your analogy your boss is reading the proposals and rejecting 70% of them, some of which because they're illegible and nonsensical. And if someone called you out as being a shitty lazy policy proposal writer for not writing policy because of it they'd be entirely correct, just like people calling out lazy shitty cops not doing their jobs would be.

BrightThru2014 t1_jeg8902 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 8:00 PM

Is there any reason to think cops in places like Chicago or Baltimore are better than DC cops? Because the prosecution rates for local DA offices are about 2-3x better in literally any other jurisdiction than DC. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. Stop defending criminal actors who are disproportionately causing harm to low-income disadvantaged communities.