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Don’t federalize and militarize DC’s local police

Aug. 11, 2025 · by Joshua Tauberer

When I walk my toddler home from daycare every evening, it is safe. That’s here in Washington, D.C., where I have lived since I moved to work on government accountability 15 years ago.

For perhaps the next 30 days, or longer, District of Columbia residents will be policed by federalized civilian and military officers, per an executive order and presidential memorandum this morning. The executive order directs the police to be federalized to protect “national monuments” (which are in the safest parts of D.C. thanks to the existing park police) and other federal properties, but the memorandum directs the DC National Guard to address crime throughout the capital.

There is no crime emergency here. I live here. I have seen things get better, not worse, with my own eyes. Violent crime is the lowest it has been in 30 years. Overall crime is down this year already. According to 2019 data, crime is worse in Houston and Indianapolis than here in D.C. Like all places, we have crime. I have seen that too. But not more than most.

D.C. is not just the capital district. It is one of the largest cities in the country. It’s a great city. I love living here. 700,000 people live in D.C. — that’s more than two whole states, Vermont and Wyoming. District residents paid $45 billion in federal taxes in 2024 — that’s more than North Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, Alaska, and Vermont combined (and more than 21 other states individually).

How many votes do we have in Congress? None. We don’t have any say in the federal laws that bind us. But that’s not all. Arrests are already prosecuted by federal lawyers, not lawyers that work for the elected DC Attorney General. They enforce local laws that the District’s Council has been blocked by Congress from updating.

There is a lot of taxation here and not a lot of representation.

Instead, politicians from far away cities with crime worse than ours use us for their own gain.

It’s not enough that federal police officers already police many of the parks here (many of which are national parks), the area around the Capitol (which has its own federal police force), and White House grounds (which has the Secret Service). Now it might be our neighborhoods too. It will not make our communities safer, and it defies the American spirit of a government accountable to its people.

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“I’m not a fan of those “I’m different from everyone else”resumes when you begin to write a short novel on how awesome you are and then don’t provide any previous work experience to back that up.”

Please note: This is an anonymous response to an online survey; I do not have any way of contacting the respondent or verifying responses. Their answers may reflect good, bad, or middling hiring practices. I invite you to take what’s useful and leave the rest. If you are someone who hires Library, Archives or other LIS workers, please consider giving your own opinion by filling out the survey here. 

Current Hiring Practices and Organizational Needs

These questions are about your current hiring practices in general – the way things have been run the last year or two (or three).

Where do you advertise your job listings?

City HR posts on City website and Indeed

Do you notice a difference in application quality based on where the applicant saw the job ad?

No

Do you include salary in the job ad?

√ Yes

Do you use keyword matching or any automation tools to reduce the number of applications a human reads while considering candidates?  

√ No

Do you consider candidates who don’t meet all the requirements listed in the job ad?

√ Other: Depends on the type of job

Does your workplace require experience for entry-level librarian positions? (Officially or unofficially…)

√ Other: Not sure.

What is the current most common reason for disqualifying an applicant without an interview?

No skills or experience similar to the job requirements and duties.

Does your organization use one-way interviews? (Sometimes also called asynchronous or recorded interviews)

√ No

Do you provide interview questions before the interview? 

√ No

Does your interview process include taking the candidate out for a meal?

√ No, and I don’t think we ever have

How much of your interview process is virtual?

√ None

Do you (or does your organization) give candidates feedback about applications or interview performance?

√ Other: I’m the only direct hiring authority for the library department and I do not have the time to do so.

What is the most important thing for a job hunter to do in order to improve their hirability?

Gain experience in the field or have worked in a similar environment in which the skills can be easily transferable.

I want to hire someone who is: 

Flexible

Is there anything else you’d like to say about hiring practices at your organization or in current trends?

The city has one person in HR and I’m the only one in our department that has to set up interviews, conduct interviews, provide training and set up the new employee. I’m also the director, so on top of that I lose time from my own duties such as management, budgeting, facility upkeep etc.

Your Last Recruitment

These are questions about the last person you hired (or the last position you attempted to fill). This person may not have been a librarian, and that’s ok.

Think about the most recent time you participated in hiring someone (or an attempt to hire someone) at your organization. What was the title of the position you were trying to fill?

We lost half the staff in a month, so two Library Clerks and one library assistant

When was this position hired?

√ Within the last three months

Approximately how many people applied for this position?

√ 75-100

Approximately what percentage of those would you say were hirable?

√ 25% or less

And how would you define “hirable”?

Someone that can actually write a resume, has had work experience, shows that they are not a job jumper, demonstrates flexibility and the ability to learn tasks on their own without being micromanaged.

How did the recruitment for this position compare with recruitments in previous years?

More applications than a year before, but fewer qualified.

Your Workplace

This section asks for information about your workplace, including if you have lost positions in the last decade.

How many staff members are at your library/organization?

√ 0-10

Are you unionized?

√ No

How many permanent, full time job openings has your workplace posted in the last year?

√ None!

How many permanent, full time librarian (or other “professional” level) jobs has your workplace posted in the last year?

√ None!

Can you tell us how the number of permanent, full-time positions at your workplace has changed over the past decade?

√ There are the same number of positions

Have any full-time librarian positions been replaced with part-time or hourly workers over the past decade?  

√ I don’t know

Have any full-time librarian positions been replaced with non-librarian, lower paid staff positions over the past decade?   

√ I don’t know

Is librarianship a dying profession?

√ Other: Yes and No, depends on what part of the country you’re in.

Why or why not?

It will be if people continue to bar Librarians from doing their job and if tax payers don’t pay enough in taxes to sustain Libraries.

Demographics

This section asks for information about you specifically.

What part of the world are you in?

√ Southwestern US

What’s your region like?

√ Suburban area

What type of institution do you hire for (check all that apply):

√ Public Library 

What type(s) of LIS professionals do you hire? 

Besides the Director, 1 Youth Librarian.

Are you a librarian?

√ Yes

Are you now or have you ever been: 

√ A hiring manager (you are hiring people that you will directly or indirectly supervise),

√ A member of a hiring or search committee

Do you have any other comments, for job hunters, other people who hire, about the survey, or for Emily (the survey author)?

My comment is for the job hunters: For me, the hiring process starts with your resume. I look for clean and detailed information about your previous work experience, especially if you have never worked in a library before. Please spell check your resume too. It’s a “no” for me if you can’t take the time to check your work, especially being that library workers have to take the time to check the little details to find things and problem solve! You need to sell me on how those skills would translate to the library. Also do a cover letter to explain any gaps in your employment and tell me why you want to work for my library and what you can bring to the team and the community to make it better. Im not a fan of those “I’m different from everyone else”resumes when you begin to write a short novel on how awesome you are and then don’t provide any previous work experience to back that up.

I’m always looking for people who want to contribute something, are a team player, can be flexible, and want to learn through making mistakes. Even if you don’t have experience yet, people with integrity will get a place in the library over someone who may have the desired skill set. Certain qualities just can’t be trained into someone, while learning a new skill set can.

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Supercharge your console application with Terminaux 7.0!

Since the inception of the first ever version of Terminaux that changed how the terminal applications work in terms of user experience, we were working hard to add new exciting features, while constantly improving existing features. Terminaux 1.0 was first released on August 6th, 2023, as a mashup project of several terminal-related libraries that are no longer maintained. Since then, several major versions, such as the latest 6.x version series, went live.

In between versions 1.0 and 6.1, several new features were added, such as the screen feature, the more powerful interactive TUI feature, and the mouse listener feature. However, we felt that the whole framework needed some kind of refresh, such as improving existing features. We also felt the need to make the terminal applications more powerful than before.

We are so thrilled to announce the next-generation version of Terminaux that will change how your terminal applications work. This is…

Terminaux 7.0!

This version of Terminaux brings many improvements and new features that we were working very hard for six months. We will outline the top three features that made it to Terminaux, which made this release so exciting and huge.

Improved mouse support

We have improved the entire input system by introducing an event-based console event listener that allows you to read console input more reliably than never before. It not only supports keyboard input, but it also handles mouse events across all platforms, whether it’s Windows, Linux, or macOS. Of course, Terminaux handles mouse events since version 4.0, but we are talking about the major improvements that affected the input handling.

We have managed to fix outstanding issues with regards to reading mouse input in your interactive terminal applications, including echoing input VT sequences when clocking on an area with your mouse in Linux systems. We’ve also added support for SGR VT sequences to add support for bigger console windows when listening to mouse events, which makes your interactive applications stronger.

For performance reasons, we’ve chosen to utilize the raw mode reading to make those improvements possible. This is necessary to also parse the keyboard input ourselves, while making sure that it’s compatible with Console.ReadKey() in modern .NET applications.

Shell improvements

Earlier, Terminaux 6.0 introduced a minimal version of the shell that was found in the latest Nitrocid versions. That shell was the Mirage Easy SHell (MESH) that allowed building CLI applications, such as the file management shell. However, Nitrocid implemented much more than that, such as file name completions, shell scripting, and process execution.

To unify the codebase from Nitrocid to Terminaux 7.0 as part of the Terminaux preparation stage for Nitrocid 0.2.0, we’ve moved the entire implementation to Terminaux so that all shell console apps can have the same power as Nitrocid’s shell. Additionally, Nitrocid itself uses this shell from Terminaux, since the technical preview beta that we’ll release soon. This is to also integrate bugfixes to the remaining applications all at once.

Your shell has become more powerful, because we’ve not only introduced shell scripting (.mesh files) for task automation, but we’ve also brought several features straight from Nitrocid’s shell implementation, such as filesystem support and process execution.

Localization and RTL

Alongside many features that got added, Terminaux 7.0 also provides improved RTL support, which increases the performance of terminal applications that use right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic letters, alongside the already-existing Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) language support that we’ve introduced back in the fourth version of Terminaux.

Terminaux 4.0 introduced partial support for right-to-left languages, and we’ve improved this feature in this version of Terminaux to fix some of the issues that resulted from the conversion of RTL characters to visual map. We’ve utilized some parts of an existing library to incorporate further improvements that will be released in future Textify versions.

We are now proud to announce an improved right-to-left language support to make terminal applications able to utilize those languages. Those in Arabic countries and in other RTL-speaking countries can now use Terminaux 7.0 to improve their terminal application’s appearance.

Get Terminaux 7.0!

Terminaux 7.0 is free to obtain, and you can upgrade from whatever version of Terminaux that you have to v7.0 without any extra fees. What are you waiting for? Supercharge your Terminaux application by upgrading to Terminaux 7.0!