Thursday, April 12, 2007
WP: DC / PG Team-Up to Clean-Up Border
According to the Washington Post District police and police from Prince George's County will increase across the border sharing of information and will also step up patrols along the border to deal with theproblem of criminals who easily pass from one jurisdiction to the other.
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Why is cross border pursuit/investigations such a hard thing for jurisdictions to coordinate? I never understood this rule (law?). can any lawyers here explain this to me? I remember being a kid and watching the Dukes of Hazard on TV and anytime Bo and Luke wanted to get out of trouble they just fled across the state line and poor old Roscoe P. Coltrane just stopped his cruiser and turned back around. I thought it was peculiar then and I think it's peculiar now. Especially in a place like DC where the borders with Maryland and Virginia are pretty much seamless and very heavily populated. I remember when I first moved to this neighborhood, an officer at a community meeting was describing how they have a hard time closing a lot of the drug and gang cases that occur in the neighborhood because many of the dealers and other suspects actually live in PG county and MPD can't just drive into Maryland and start banging on doors and detaining suspects. i remember thinking how convenient an arrangement that must be for the criminals
I think that's a very good question and with DC being as small as it is its almost impossible NOT to cross the border.
I think that it is mostly laziness on the part of DC cops. I lived in Fairfax Village for many years, and countless times the PG cops chased criminals down our street, and at times,the even had their guns drawn. I never saw a DC cop cross Southern ave, unless it was to drive their police cruiser home to Maryland.
By the way Fairfax Village is a nice 55 acre community on Pennsyvania av in far SE. AKA Anacostia,to people who don't know any better.
been around the city
dc isn't a state.
heck, you'd think that MD/VA could not only cross borders... they could invade DC!
i think that's why the legal aspects of border crossing exist.
rule of law sucks, but it's one way to keep alleged 'order'.
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