News Corner

Mayor Muriel Bowser of the District of Columbia allowed BLM protesters to paint "Defund the Police" in front of the White House. The DC City Council passed defund and disrespect laws to hamstring the police from doing their jobs. Crime went through the roof.

MoCo County Exec Marc Elrich forbade the police to post the "Thin Blue Line" flag in their offices, took away the School Resource Officers, and forbade the police to work with ICE to deport criminal illegals. Members of the County Council to this day write and rewrite rules to tie the hands of police saying they might be "disrespectful" to criminals. Murders, thefts, carjackings and violent crimes have spiked, and a sense of well being has declined.

This is what our elected leaders keep doing to us. Here's a quote from one of our readers:

"I am for more funding of the police and much tougher laws for criminals than we have now!  
It is due to these lax laws and defunding the police that we are all in shock about the crime rate going up at such an alarming rate in Montgomery County and the whole metro area!"

-Name withheld-

HELP THE MOCO POLICE DEPARTMENT

By Ann Guthrie Hingston

Marc Elrich’s Executive Order tied the hands of law enforcement. In 2019 County Executive Marc Elrich signed an executive order prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Soon thereafter, we organized and hundreds showed up in protest led by Larry O’Connor and Vince Coglianese of WMAL, Sabastian Gorka, Michelle Malkin and families of MCPD officers killed by convicted felons illegally in the United States. MCPD officers faced away from us to protect us as County officials and those they hired lined up across the street.

Rockville ICE Rally - Maryland Matters, courtesy Glynis Kazanjian

Policies have consequences. WJLA reports that so far this year Montgomery County has failed to honor 119 detainers and it is only February. Recently, reporter Brad Bell accompanied ICE agents as they attempted to arrest a non-citizen, convicted felon who had been the subject of an ICE detainer for deportation but was released from a local jail after 18 months. WATCH THE WJLA STORY HERE

Dozens of MoCo Republicans and Independents traveled to the CPAC conference at National Harbor last week to attend the Spring Meeting.  Participants said it was an awesome Convention with excellent speakers and an exciting program. It featured among others the President of El Salvador and former President Donald Trump.