How many more?

[iris lilies]

If only we had a cop at every corner, I could relax.

Today at 12:30 pm I called DH on his cell phone to check that he was OK. He usually comes home for lunch at 11:30.
he was working in our ghetto gatdens and I worry when he is late. He was ok today! Just late in finishing a weeding job.

one time years ago , he ran over there to get a piece of equipment and was gone for 40 minutes. I worried. When he came back he had had an encounter with the criminal element who he found loading up their car with something stolen from our property. He didnt chase them, he noted for their license plate and watched them drive off. I am glad that he wasnt there five minutes earlier.

As I often say, the fewer cops in Rob's neighborhood, the more cops for my neighborhood. thanks, Rob!

I had to laugh when someone (was it here?) talked about how e cops need to get involved in communities, get out of their cars, get to know people where they patrol.

That's exactly what our neighborhood cop, Brian, does. He is on bike patrol now, and If I were his wife i would not be able to sleep at the thought of how vulnerable he is riding around on his bike. Ugh. The war on cops will cause them to justifiably get into patrol cars two at a time to have metal between them and the criminal element and to have a buddy backup.

[Ultralight]

If only we had a cop at every corner, I could relax.

Mucho tax dollars.

[iris lilies]

Mucho tax dollars.

oh, I know, its not at all practical. It is just my way of saying "cops good, perps bad."

[bae]

Mucho tax dollars.

The neighborhoods that need that level of policing typically don't have that level of tax revenue available.

The neighborhoods that have that sort of tax revenue typically don't need that level of policing.

Weird.

[LDAHL]

I think the process would be:

1. Get arrested for failure to disperse (a misdemeanor offense most places).
2. Successfully sue for false arrest.
3. Successfully establish damages of "multiple millions" in physical or psychological harm and diminished employment prospects.
4. Collect said millions.
5. Invest some portion of said millions in obtaining citizenship in some more congenial country.
6. Take comfortable satisfaction in the punishment you inflicted on "America" (aka the taxpayers).

[iris lily]

Here is our neighborhood officer Brian who rides around now on a bike or a scooter. He used to have this golf cart thingie:

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[Ultralight]

oh, I know, its not at all practical. It is just my way of saying "cops good, perps bad."

You must live in a really high crime area.

[LDAHL]

You must live in a really high crime area.

I live in a low crime area, but I agree with IL.

[Teacher Terry]

IL: is your whole town that bad or just where you live? When I went to grad school in Milwaukee the only way to get there was thru the ghetto. even though my car had no air I had the windows rolled up once I got off the freeway and hoped my car did not break down (before cell phones). However, like most towns milwaukee had good and bad places to live. It just so happens that the university was built near the lake and then unfortunately the neighborhood around it became shit.

[Ultralight]

IL:

Have you tried gentrifying the area?