Not that I’ve noticed.
SW Michigan.
It all has to do with whether there are funds for LEO Overtime pay. If so, they’ll be crawling out of the woodwork looking for anything to justify future OT. OT always becomes available by the Feds during natural disasters and ‘Pushes’ for this or that crime of the month. State OT is always available around the holidays. In WV, perhaps there’s a Push for moonshiners on?
am in s.w. montana.
been on a three week vacation from Florida to the north shore of lake superior to here and so far no problem with any authorities.
I live in a poor neighborhood. The police only come around when there is a dead body.
I saw a cop last week. I’ll probably see another today but I’m only a few miles from Michigan International Speedway.
Nothing here that I’ve not seen for decades
Oak Ridge, Tenn.
There is however a paramilitary presence due to the local Nuclear Facilities
That’s been tweaked since a Nun spray painted the Uranium Storage Facility
Houston & West Texas........very, very definitely. Its gotten genuinely creepy. We see not only an increase in police activity, we’ve seen a significant increase in multiple units parked in observation mode on streets and highways. I can’t tell whether its having an effect on business yet, but I’d have to think it is.
I am seeing an uptick in helicopter activity; that is certain.
It varies county by county here. Rural red counties are pretty much as they’ve always been within my memory. Urban fringe and urban can be a different story. I drive across all of them on a daily basis during the week, and haven’t noticed any recent ratcheting up. That started in the nineties but really kicked in after 9/11. The Emergency Broadcast System has had annoying periodic outbreaks of alerts over the past year, that’s about it.
Nope.
Nothing out of the ordinary here in San Jose, Ca. Heck, if anything, there’s less LE as the city has a shortage of police as there’s been a rash of departures due to police going to other jurisdictions for better pay/benefits.
Along this very general line, this morning I was talking to a neighborhood guy who has a backyard pool......a month ago he'd left town for a week and when he got back he found that his pump had burned out and algea had formed.
He got it all squared away, and two weeks later a guy from the Mosquito Vector agency showed up at his door - telling him that satellite photography had alerted them to the situation.
Big Sis really IS everywhere!
I live in a town of about 30,000 people in SE WI. No increased police activity. (although I wish they’d come around here more and catch the little teenage puke that’s been speeding up & down our 25mph residential street at 40+)
I’m about 5 miles from a national guard has and there has been a huge increase in helicopter activity the last month or so.
Pot harvest season.
Police in East Texas area went in to a big food retailer, pulled a store employee out in parking lot to talk to him. Asked him if photo on I-phone was his (it was -- because police had photographed his car). Asked if he had been involved in an altercation on the road leading to the store and had he aggressively approached someone who had been driving erratically (he had not). The policeman didn't think to ask him if he had loaned the car to someone else (he had not - the top-notch criminal attorney he contacted for advice on how to handle this matter asked him that).
Case of mistaken identity. Police said he would refer everything to the District Attorney. The particular individual interrogated does not have an aggressive bone in his body (personal knowledge).
It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so. Wonder what's going to happen next?
Yes. Definitely. Local cops and state troopers from Nashville to Dover and back. They were everywhere. Lots of traffic cops on motorcycles pulling cars over and one road block. Trooper cars everywhere. It was highly unusual.
Yep. Driving up I-15 out of San Diego yesterday, there were CHP and Sheriff all over the place pulling people over.
Figured it was one of those “maximum enforcement” days they do, although that is typically on holiday weekends. Maybe they just need more cash for the pension fund.
There was an armed stand-off at the house behind the house across from me. I was underwhelmed at the response. Yeah, there was a helicopter with a loudspeaker, but the patrol car at our end of the street was from the local school district! Another car came from the local transportation company. In front of the house were two sheriff’s cars. The guy came out eventually, and it didn’t even make the local paper.
Mostly I’ve noticed a lot of “drills,” in L.A. and San Bernardino. A DHS drill in San Diego featured zombies. Yes, I’m serious. People stand around watching these things like they are at Universal Studios. I shudder to think what people would do if it were the real thing.