My sister is having a bad summer.
In fact, even as I’m typing this, Peggy is at D.C. police headquarters.
We had dinner in Georgetown recently and when we came back to my house, where her car was parked, she was short a Buick.
Two polite officers who responded to our call said they could do little, amid a rash of brazen car thefts by teenagers.
One officer said that, even if they saw the perp driving in her car, they could not chase him, because of laws passed by the D.C. Council.
Kids — some too young to drive legally — can just hot-wire cars to go home. Two 15-year-olds are charged in a carjacking attack on a former DOGE employee that helped set off President Trump’s crusade on crime in D.C. The council has been notoriously lax toward juvenile offenders.
Peggy had always loved that Buick, which she bought because Peyton Manning was the pitchman. We figured we’d never see it again.
The next morning, though, an officer from Prince George’s County, a working-class Maryland suburb, banged on her door. Her car was found in a park, running, nearly out of gas. When she collected it, after paying a $215 towing charge, she found an odoriferous collection: half-eaten pizza, grape soda cans, fast-food wrappers, a used condom and a couple of debit cards.
She called the D.C. police to tell them about the debit cards, thinking they could help trace the thieves. (Our dad, after all, was a D.C. cop.) But the police said to throw them away, noting that the cardholders had probably already gotten new ones.
Peggy got the car detailed and celebrated its return by going shopping at Bloomingdale’s. When she got back to her parking space, someone had T-boned the poor Buick.
I have no sympathy for Democrats who are victims of crime since they embraced Democrat policies and allowed millions of illegal aliens to enter the United States.
It really is too bad that in a Blue City, controlled by radical Socialist’ your personal property is not safe from theft. It terrible assault by thugs can harm or kill residents and visitors to the Capital City of this Nation.
Just remember that the next time you vote for Democrats. Those same Democrats will create bankrupt government spending for social concepts that force the middle class to leave. Why because they cannot afford the taxes.
Want to bet a clean sweep of D.C. would find significant numbers of illegals (protected by Socialist Mayor) and voter rolls that allow illegals and green cards to vote.
You voted for them. You created the crime locations.
Why don’t you go help if you are that concerned.