Not to mention, he's another carpetbagger, maintaining his primary residence in Maryland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/weekinreview/02dewan.html?_r=1

Thanks to Jamie, posting on this WCP article last month:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2009/10/13/chief-lanier-deserves-credit-for-drop-in-homicides/#comment-665590

You are wrong about the shotspotter program being limited to one Ward under Williams. When the technology was instituted the city paid to have it implemented in high crime areas all over the city in what was then called "hot spots". The expansion you mentioned was already bought and paid for when Fenty took office. However, if that is what you meant, then fine, lets not mince words. I think that 9/11 had a greater impact on local/federal law enforcement fusion than any local politician. That was a major weakness pointed out in the 9/11 report. LOTS of USDHS dollars have been spent to fix that deficiency. I am pleased that the locals embraced the improvements. As if they had a choice.

I use "constitutional privacy outrage" as a reference point. Cameras, though they didn't call them "surveillance" have been at intersections for a very long time. They were, and continue to be called, "traffic" cameras, though they do have the capability to be manipulated to zone in on individuals or property. You don't even want to know what the Fed's can do. It was Adrian Fenty that came up with the bright idea to synthesize the traffic camera operation with general law enforcement and move them from the DOT to Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Thereby shifting their focus and use as primarily for traffic management to that of "homeland security", hence the same source of the Constitutional Williams outrage.

We find agreement on the mess that has become Pershing Park. The mess began with an MPD coverup under Ramsey and continues under the leadership of his protege' Cathy Lanier with a boost from our carpetbagger Attorney General Peter Nickels. I fear because of his judicial antics, the chips are stacked up against the city the moment a case lands in front of a Superior Court Judge where we are the Defendant. He disregards the rulings of even their chief.

When Fenty doesn't frame an initiative as solely his own when it is actually an embellishment of what was already there, then I'll give him his due. However, when he wraps it in the cloak of a new invention, I will continue to clarify is factual misrepresentations.

I admittedly was soured against Fenty the moment I learned of his theft from an estate while serving as it's trustee. Not returning the money until he was reported by the family and censured by the D.C. bar. He then, as he does now, apologizes saying he didn't know what happened, begs for forgiveness, then goes on to do something else suspect (and the cycle continues). I have been on the wrong end of a fiscally unscrupulous attorney in estate matters. If they are willing to steal from a dead person's family, just imagine what they will do to the coffers of a city budget. I just find the man ethically suspect. Not someone I can cast a vote for.

For anyone curious, the annual murder count for the past 5 years in 7D is:
2005- 63
2006- 44
2007- 60
2008- 47
For the year, homicides in DC as a whole are down about 25%- more than most other big cities. And, as someone pointed out before, we'd be blaming the police if the numbers went up, so we should credit them when they go down.

And you would be blowing your usual indefensible smoke. Violent crime is down in major cities across the country and there is no shred of evidence nor definitive link between that drop and any of Lanier's initiatives.

PSA 7, where all the shotspotters are, is headed to surpass its murder rate of last year.

In particular, they were put up initially in high crime areas and then expanded to other areas of the city. They were used heavily during the "Crime Emergencies". The technology went up around the same time that police cameras went up. Don't you recall the Constitutional Privacy outrage? Presuming you live or lived in the city at the time.

Here is the link again, not sure if the post has fixed it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/21/AR2006102100826.html

This Administration just seems to claim full credit for ideas that began under another administration. I simply give the credit where it is due.

We have the Mayor's scandals, which have happen on his watch. One, the tax and revenue fraud case. Two, the awarding of city contracts to his friends. Three, AIDS funding fraud. Four, no accountability in the Dept of Child and Family Services. Five, using the police to help him break the traffic laws here and in another state. Six having his friends use city vehicles.

Now to our city council scandals, Jim Graham aka (The Queen of All Media) maybe if he spent less time getting in front of the TV cameras and spent more time keeping track of his chief of staff and staff members who like to shoot people at Metro stops. Marion Barry aka, (Crakatoa) who gives tax payers money to his friends with no accountability. Other members of the council who will not pass a strong crime bill, because they are worried about the civil rights of uneducated, low life thugs than the rights and safety of tax paying citizens.

If arrogance was put into monetary terms this city will never have a financial crisis.

Enought, Said!

Fenty and Lanier of DC and Jack Johnson, Pg County executive are so fucking corrupt I am giving my fucking house away to get the fuck away from PG and DC.
But, if teh feds lock up these slime bitches soon then I am cool and so are most citizens around here.

It would be just wonderful when Fenty fans can highlight Fenty borne initiatives.