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Have you tried reporting it? I would call the PPA enforcement line (215-683-9773) and also reporting it to 911. You can text 911 to do so - just have the location, make/model/color of the car, and license plate info if possible. They probably won't do anything the first day, but if it's there consistently and you keep bothering them daily, they might come out. I know it's ridiculous to have to do all that, but I've had some success in the past with it.

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Stinking Jersey guy.

New Jersey companies have also poisoned the Delaware before too. We only found out way later. love this for us

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I used to work at Ft McNair in DC and they had a shuttle that went to a metro station. We were told during orientation to take the shuttle and not walk to the metro because uniformed soldiers were being robbed at gunpoint.

There is no evidence that a national guard deployment would do anything besides put heavily armed young adults in a situation which they are not trained for.

I once interned or worked for a republican house representative. I did not share any of his views. It was a job for experience.

The question of criminal deterrence has been extensively studied and the #1 thing PPD could do to discourage more crimes is to catch more criminals. That's why clearance rates matter, and that's why candidates that are calling for more detectives and for more non-police investigators are better than candidates calling for the army.

BTW, with respect to 'trying new things' -- it's not like we haven't tried 'call the national guard' for law enforcement before. It leads to M2 .50cal machine guns being fired at residential buildings because part time soldiers thought they heard a gunshot and got spooked (Newark, NJ 1967).

If we want to try new things how about taking criminal investigation away from the police department and making it a standalone professional agency that can hire people who don't come up from patrol officers. There's lots of people with relevant investigatory skills who can't become detectives because they didn't go to the police academy in their early 20s. IT, accounting, digital forensics, etc are all highly relevant to solving shootings these days.

This will all be forgotten by the next big news cycle.

We'll randomly have an article pop up every 4-6 months about the court fillings on this case, but no one will really care.

This is America.

Don’t forget your wallet! 🥸

That's pretty much what I was thinking. Do you have one or are you just making the same assumptions that I am?

The key is allow vs do they ticket. It’s clearly illegal, but people are rarely ticketed so they keep doing it.

How will marginally trained army reservists combat gun violence?

No disrespect to reservists, but they exist in case the United States is invaded, they have zero law enforcement training. Are they going to call in mortar support any time there's a shooting? Because that's what they're trained for.

I freely admit that after having to live in Clarke's district for the last 20 years, I am 100% cynical about everything he does.

> This might seem peculiar or unfair

Or, you know, completely unconstitutional.

But are broken windows claimed on insurance? I've always paid out of pocket since it was under my $500 deductible.

Might be too cynical a way of looking at it — there's a sizable gulf between being a handpicked successor and being someone with practical experience working in a council office. And as far as I've seen, Clarke hasn't said word one about Young in this process — not in the Inky article, not on social, not anywhere.

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I was just telling my friends that London didn't realize food could be color beyond shades of brown until roughly 2010.

The bridge just got resinspected in December and is apparently still OK, for what that's worth.

I don't care for this outcome. (Or that nobody's left to even perfunctorily challenge Kenyatta Johnson in my district.)

The whole process of gathering petitions and signature challenges seems perverse to me.

We should evade the whole nonsense by adopting a deposit system, at least as an alternative. Rather than harassing people for signatures, a place on the ballot would require depositing a sum of money, which would be returned to you after the election should you win a sufficient share of votes.

In the United Kingdom, the deposit is £500 (Approximately $ 615) and is returned to any candidate who wins at least 5 % of the vote. (Both the deposit and vote share required for it to be returned were higher in the past) I would suggest a higher fee and vote threshold, if only to aggressively filter some more of the crazies and delusional also-rans out. The deposit, at least, should also probably be higher for city-wide offices. Perhaps the deposit amount could also be adjusted for wealth and income, which might have an interesting side-effect if the deposit amounts were public.

This might seem peculiar or unfair, but its a common practice and given the cost and difficult of soliciting sufficient signatures, might be less burdensome and reduce the incidence of shameful absurdities such as this year's races for district seats on the City Council.

Ultimately, however, the situation is a consequence of a defective political system that problem requires deeper, almost traumatic reform.

Young also worked for Clarke at one point.

Clarke may have failed at shoehorning Wilkerson in but he was still clearly trying to push things in the direction he wanted. Even if it didn't completely succeed, it definitely fits under "corrupt to the end."

It will be fine. At worst it runs the resistive heating coils like a normal electric water heater.

Electric resistance heat is slower to heat than gas, so if you take long showers or do shitloads of laundry, buy a bigger tank than you have now.