The cops know these repeat offenders. They have video of them committing crimes. The prosecutors and judges don’t care and decide not to press charges. It’s a circus.

MPD Lieutenant secretly feeding Proud Boys intel: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/02/16/dc-police-tarrio-proud-boys-lamond/

MPD fistbumping Proud Boys while escorting them to a bar after a day of randomly assaulting people in the street and vandalizing a black church in DC: https://twitter.com/Curious_Kurz/status/1147182850132905984

And in fact every time Proud Boys came en masse to DC, they assaulted people, MPD just stood back and did nothing.

And this is all part of a bigger pattern of police getting cozy with Proud Boys. https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1371096606502756354

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This is the answer. The MSRRA allows you as a spouse to claim the military member’s residency state starting in the tax year that you’re married.

That said, the complication is that you are exempt from state income taxes if you moved to that state to comply with military orders. So if you move to Virginia to be closer to your spouse where they are stationed, after you’re married, this might apply: source

• for DC, see: link

You will still get taxes withheld based on where you physically live from your pay check and need your employer to have your true home address (look into if the state where you live has a method for your employer to exempt you from those taxes ahead of time).

Like the poster prior said, online tax companies should be well aware of this and useable even in this situation - it’s the law and it’s common. Don’t let some of these posters have you second guess or feel guilty that you’re taking advantage of this law, they presumably don’t have to move every few years or deal with any of the other aspects of being a military spouse.

And finally— some of the info you’ll read will say that you can only claim the same state of residence as your spouse if you also had established residency there prior to being married. That changed in 2018 in the Veterans Benefits and Transitions Act, see Title III: Source

Signed, 3 military moves & one marriage in 3 years

Same place you’re getting your data from. BTW I’m referencing a ten-year period here, not from 2020 onward.

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1)The increase in DC is higher; 2) There are similar trends with declining numbers of police officers in those cities too; 3) I agree a more progressive prosecutorial posture when it comes to enforcement is also to blame.

who knew

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How do you think prosecutors build cases? Spoiler alert: they can’t do shit when cops won’t show up to testify

For the major ones like Women's March or March for Our Lives, you could sign up to activist newsletters which would advertise those events (probably something like Everytown).

But if walk around around Embassy Row long enough, especially in good weather, you're bound to run into one eventually.

I am saying the nationwide increase in murders is less than the increase in murders in DC on a per capital basis. This further correlates with a drop in the number of police officers during that same period in DC. Hence, the drop in police officers correlates with a disproportionate surge in crime in DC. Can you follow?

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Thanks for checking one of my crime apologist bingo squares, “crime also occurs elsewhere, so we should ignore it here”.

Bet if I scroll down you probably covered “it’s not as bad as the 90s”, too.

Great roof deck, too, for when the weather gets better

Actual weather is “scaring the shit out of you”? You have no control over it. Go outside and enjoy the nice days. Stop living in fear.

I want one specific data point on violent crime: how much of the reduction is due to a reduction in snatch and grab robberies of phones? It’s a violent crime as defined by DC (and most jurisdictions), and due to that, when you looked at crime maps in the early 2010s, many of the most “violent” places were near popular metro stations like Dupont Circle. With Apple and Google increasingly making phones worth less and less to steal (by locking them down, etc, such that a theft now is good only for conning someone into buying a useless phone or parting it out), those crimes have seemed to drop precipitously.

Now compare 2013 to 2023.

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Im curious - most cops I see in DC are Black. How many of them are proud boy sympathizers.

We won’t become a state because the District was never intended to be a state.

Look at murder rates (which can’t be fake and don’t suffer from reporting issues) in DC vs. the US. You see your DC centric spike in crime there very clearly.

Now do three year rolling average trends of murder rates correlated to number of police officers. The data is very obviously there to prove my point as much as you’d like to pretend otherwise.

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