By Adam Pagnucco. Part One started our list of the top twenty posts in our first year ranked by page views. We have previously listed posts 11-20. Today we list…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last February, Council Member Will Jawando introduced a bill to restrict the authority of county police officers to make traffic stops. Council Member Kristin Mink co-sponsored the…
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Your Picks in Year One, Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. On September 27, 2022, Montgomery Perspective published its first post. Since then, almost 500 posts have followed. It’s been a tumultuous year and we have watched it…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Five
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing. Part Two explored police data released by Montgomery County government since the late 1990s. Part Three looked at data from…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Four
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing. Part Two explored police data released by Montgomery County government since the late 1990s. Part Three looked at data from…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Three
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part Two examined trends in arrests, traffic citations and warrants served contained in Montgomery County’s comprehensive annual financial reports (CAFRs). Now let’s look at stats supplied by…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part Two
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By Adam Pagnucco. Part One introduced the concept of depolicing, which Wikipedia defines as “a term for police disengaging from active police work, generally as a reaction to external scrutiny…
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Is There Depolicing in MoCo? Part One
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By Adam Pagnucco. Until I started running analyses of crime data a few months ago, I had never heard the term “depolicing.” One of my sources brought it to my…
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The Nothing Burger Crime Bill
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By Adam Pagnucco. Last month, county officials celebrated the passage of legislation intended to enhance late night safety. The bill requires some late night businesses to draft safety plans for…
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The Last Time Crime was a Hot Issue
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By Adam Pagnucco. I have been writing about crime quite a bit lately. Last year, it was a big deal in the county executive election (in which I worked for…