By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in April 2024, ranked by page views. 1. Northwood High School Students to Walk Out Tomorrow 2. MCPS’s…
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Five Police Trends
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By Adam Pagnucco. Recently, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) published its newest batch of data due under Bill 33-19, which requires regular reporting on demographic and activity stats. I…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Montgomery County Inspector General Megan Davey Limarzi has issued a memorandum of investigation finding that the county’s police department has misused state grant money. Her memo begins:…
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Top Stories: March 2024
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By Adam Pagnucco. Below are the top ten stories on Montgomery Perspective in March 2024, ranked by page views. 1. What MCPS Employees Think About Their Schools, Part Five 2….
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By Adam Pagnucco. Previously, I introduced this series and asked the candidates about what they believed was MCPS’s biggest problem, their experience with budgets, their opinions on the incumbents and…
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Police Union Speaks Out on Staffing Bomb
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By Adam Pagnucco. Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Lodge 35, which represents Montgomery County police officers, has released a statement on my post of yesterday about police staffing. That post…
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The Police Staffing Bomb
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By Adam Pagnucco. I have written many times about Montgomery County’s problems with police department staffing. Here is a sample. MoCo’s Recent Record on Police Staffing, Part One (February, 2023):…
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Pittman: Do We Have Enough Cops?
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By Adam Pagnucco. “I failed.” Those are two words I almost never hear from politicians. And yet that sentiment is a part of Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman’s recent…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Police Chief Marcus Jones, who has served in the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) for decades and has been chief since 2019, has announced his retirement. This…
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By Adam Pagnucco. Back in November, the Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) announced the launch of its Drone as First Responder Program. Almost immediately, the drone began assisting in arrests. …