Montgomery County's Search For A New Police Chief

[Yooper]

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Leftist county races to the bottom in search for new police chief

Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, is looking for a new police commissioner. There is an obvious candidate for the job — Marcus Jones, the acting commissioner and 34-year veteran of t…

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Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, is looking for a new police commissioner. There is an obvious candidate for the job — Marcus Jones, the acting commissioner and 34-year veteran of the force.

Jones comes highly recommended by both the previous police commissioner, who has retired, and the County’s longtime State’s Attorney. Not only that, he’s African-American.

But there’s a problem. Montgomery County has moved from left-liberal to flat out left. The move was officially confirmed when Marc Elrich, a radical anti-business lefty, was elected County Executive.

Concerning one of the two finalists (Jones is not in the running):

Chapman’s inclusion is even less funny. She was the head of the police department in Portsmouth, Virginia which has a force of 255 officers. But Chapman resigned from that job in lieu of being fired for poor leadership.

Chapman, an African-American, claims her sacking was due to her race. But she was replaced by another African-American female. The city manager who canned Chapman is also an African-American female. Chapman’s allegation of discrimination is preposterous.

To summarize, Chapman headed a department about one-quarter the size of Montgomery County’s. She was ousted for poor performance. And she falsely claimed that the discharge was racially motivated.

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But “de-policing” and reduced public safety may well be in the cards, not just in Montgomery County, but in two other major Washington, D.C. suburbs. Across the river, Arlington and Fairfax Counties have replaced competent veteran prosecutors with inexperienced, anti-police leftists whose campaigns were funded by George Soros.

In all three jurisdictions, wokeness, that infantile condition, seems to trump public safety. For now.

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[GURPS]

 

[vraiblonde]

Fine with me. Now the criminals have a wealthy place to do business and can leave the rest of us alone.

 

[littlelady]

Read the article and weep (?).

Leftist county races to the bottom in search for new police chief

Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, is looking for a new police commissioner. There is an obvious candidate for the job — Marcus Jones, the acting commissioner and 34-year veteran of t…

www.powerlineblog.com

The opening:


Concerning one of the two finalists (Jones is not in the running):


From the close:


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We left Mont Cty 20 years ago because it sucked. We moved to Calvert, and, absolutely loved it there. Twenty years later we are back because of family. We do what we have to do. The reward of being with the grandtots is awesome. But, Mont Cty still sucks. I love putting prohibited items in the recycle bin. Take that!