In her speech tonight at the DNC in Chicago, we urge County Executive Alsobrooks to finally address real challenges that her constituents are dealing with here at home as a result of her leadership instead of just repeating the same old partisan talking points.
- Rising Crime on Her Watch: Prince George’s County has seen an over 30% increase in violent crime, 95% increase in homicides, and 500% increase in carjackings since County Executive Alsobrooks took office. In 2020, after embracing the Defund the Police movement, Alsobrooks removed security from Prince George’s County Public Schools, defunded $20 million for police training and equipment, and implemented a program to keep drug dealers out of jail. Alsobrooks wants to abolish cash bail, which could release defendants accused of violent crimes back on the streets.
- Failing To Deliver Basic Services: In her campaign for County Executive, Angela Alsobrooks’ signature promise was to double trash collection but then abandoned that promise once in office. Now, residents are complaining that “trash piled up for weeks without pickup and their complaints about it were ignored.” Meanwhile, the county firefighters’ union is sounding the alarm about staffing shortages that have become “more and more serious” over the last several years, blaming the Prince George’s County government for inadequate funding. Prince George’s County Fire Chief Tiffany Green had to pull career firefighters out of four firehouses for reassignment elsewhere because of “critical staffing shortages.” The firefighters in Prince George’s County are currently the only Maryland firefighters without a contract.
- Dangerous Sanctuary Policies: In one of her first acts in office, Alsobrooks made Prince George’s a sanctuary county, letting drug dealers, gang members, and sex offenders who are here illegally back on the street without informing federal agents. In 2019, two offenders whose federal detainers were ignored by County Executive Alsobrooks went on to murder a 14-year old girl shortly after being released from Prince George’s County Department of Corrections. Governor Moore has said that Alsobrooks’ policy is “violating federal law.”
- No Responsibility For Education: County Executive Alsobrooks campaigned on a promise to improve education, but her handpicked Chair of the Board of Education was accused by the State Department of Education of “incompetency, willful neglect of duty and misconduct.” Instead of addressing the problem as the schools declined, Alsobrooks said the school board was “not my responsibility” and opposed school choice for students in failing schools. Sadly, not a single demographic group of students in Prince George’s County hit the state’s annual target for math proficiency last year. Four Prince George’s County high schools — Duval, Roosevelt, Gwynn Park, and Largo — lost a star in the state’s one-to-five star scale ranking system and not a single high school in the county improved its ranking. The state’s official scorecard for 2023 showed that PG County high schools “failed to hit any of the annual targets laid out by the state and did not achieve improvement in any of the five categories measured.”
- Raising Taxes: The latest forecasts for Prince George’s County showed a projected deficit gap in the budget that grows from $183M in FY 2025 to as much as $387M by 2030 and Country Executive Alsobrooks is openly talking about raising taxes. At the federal level, she is campaigning on a promise to raise Social Security taxes.
