Posted on 08/27/2025 12:34:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) - One night last week, police officers in Washington stopped a man carrying a designer handbag after spotting a small, clear plastic bag poking out of it, which they suspected might contain marijuana.
It was the kind of encounter that is a staple of local police work, only this time the officers who asked to look inside the bag were accompanied by agents from five separate federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Secret Service, according to records filed in a local court.
While the two-week effort has turned up guns and drugs, records from Washington’s Superior Court show it has also included federal agents converging in large numbers on low-level crimes such as marijuana use and public alcohol consumption, cases that have seldom been a priority for U.S. law enforcement agencies tasked with targeting drug traffickers and gunrunners.
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No one is above the law.
People should not be allowed to walk down the street smoking a joint or drinking alcohol, period. There is a time and place for that, but its not walking down the street.
People should not be allowed to walk down the street smoking a joint or drinking alcohol, period. There is a time and place for that, but its not walking down the street.
Going after minor offenses is how Guliani fought crime in New York. Individuals who commit minor offensives also commit serious offensives
Rooter Reuters don’t care about “minor” offenses like throwing rocks through the windows of houses temporarily unoccupied. Their staff is a bunch of morons. They don’t understand how the world works.
Gaslight Media scofflaws.
Going for the 20-80 again.
Dump off Brad Heath and Jack Queen on the bad side of DC town after dark.
Jaywalkers beware!
I suggest these minor infraction guys have long rapsheets.
Get them off the streets. Crime stats nose-dive.
Reuters is a dip-S moronic anti-US operation.
They probably had to retrain police officers on how to write arrest reports, since they’ve been forbidden to arrest anyone for years.
I wonder if Reuters would have poo-pood someone caught with a 12rd magazine
Dear Reuters: this is called “broken glass policing” and it has been proven to work. Please see New York under Rudy Giuliani. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
“… crackdown target minor offenses.”
That’s because major offenses, such as murder, rape, and armed robbery, have dwindled to near zero. Much like one of my favorite headlines, “Even Though Crime Down, More People in Prison”.
Broken windows
Exactly. The expectation that criminal behavior will not be tolerated is created by consequences for all offenses, minor and serious.
Do the low level crimes involve illegal aliens?
If yes, the reason is obvious.
The Feds can take the suspect into immediate custody.
The story about multiple cops plus five federal agents taking down one suspect with a plastic bag, allegedly sticking out of a designer bag, is not credible.
There is more to that story, or the story is complete fiction.
Reuters is a hive a Trump hating children.
That’s how you do it!
Worked great for Rudy in NYC!
Reuters hates Trump like Robin Westman did.
you beat me to it!!!
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