My Home Town....

[70bigblockdodge]

Duty to protect doesn't exist anymore.

Nor does the duty to keep the peace. Just diffuse the situation long enough to write the paper or pull out the cuffs. Don't get me wrong some people will not stop till they are laying on the ground with 3 cops kneeling on them and they should be arrested. There does not always need to be a result if the police show up, but I'm sure the commissioners, mayor, council etc. likes to see results not just peace keeping

 

[Big_John]

I'm sure the commissioners, mayor, council etc. likes to see results not just peace keeping

That's it right there.... There's no metrics to be judged on for peace keeping. It used to be that if you got pulled over, you had a chance of just getting a warning. Not now... It's a ticket... and I don't believe that's coming from the guys with the boots on the ground.

 

[67Monaco]

That's it right there.... There's no metrics to be judged on for peace keeping. It used to be that if you got pulled over, you had a chance of just getting a warning. Not now... It's a ticket... and I don't believe that's coming from the guys with the boots on the ground.

That's it right there.... There's no metrics to be judged on for peace keeping.

And no dollars to be made.

boots on the ground.

And I'm sorry I have a huge problem with that term. It's not you. I hate it when I hear the media or the politicians refer to "boots on the ground". What about the lives attached to the feet that are inserted into those boots? The US public is more inclined to send our youngest and brightest into the meat grinders created by politicians and large corporations if they can take the human life aspect out of it. And that's the first of their phrases they tend to use.

 

[Big_John]

And I'm sorry I have a huge problem with that term. It's not you. I hate it when I hear the media or the politicians refer to "boots on the ground". What about the lives attached to the feet that are inserted into those boots? The US public is more inclined to send our youngest and brightest into the meat grinders created by politicians and large corporations if they can take the human life aspect out of it. And that's the first of their phrases they tend to use.

That is true. The lives of many are just so many numbers.

I could have used some other term, especially after me bitching about the cops becoming paramilitary, but my intent was to show that the "cop on the beat" isn't the one deciding.