Language barrier plagues Mesa police

East Valley Tribune ^ | 4 NOV 2007 | Katie McDevitt,

[ARE SOLE]

“A lot of them get frustrated when officers don’t speak Spanish,” Raine says. “I’ve been on calls where people are yelling at me because I don’t speak enough Spanish.”

Why should our Police have to speak the language of people that conquered the Mexicans?

Regards

[radar101]

THE PROBLEM:
Gutless pandering politicians who blame police officers for not learning Spanish, and newspeople with the agenda of ruining America so we can be a Third World Country like where the “Victims” came from.

[pnh102]

Every illegal knows what the word “INS” means. Perhaps if we started saying it more, and following through on it, we would have fewer of these problems.

[Dahoser]

“Being able to provide good services to the citizens is the bottom line,” said Mesa Police Association president Fabian Cota. “The fact that officers can’t communicate with victims ... kind of means they are receiving inferior service.”

No, it really means that the victims are paying the price for not assimilating which is exactly as it should be and was until the bilingualism disgrace took the penalties out of staying separate.

[montag813]

We are told that we “can’t afford” to deport the illegals. Well if a single municipality is forced to spend $118,000 per year translating 911 calls, then it is obvious that we can.

[Flintlock]

It’s gonna be them, or us.
Whooooo’s it going to be, boys and girls?

[Truth29]

Broken Spanish translation: Habla Ingles o muerte.

[ought-six]

Hispanic illegals refuse to learn English. They expect — no, they DEMAND — that WE learn Spanish.

Teddy Roosevelt said the following:

“The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of (foreigners), each preserving (their) separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with (citizens) of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic. The (people) who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American. There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.”

Our political leadership since the 1960s, growing ever more leftist, have sold America down the river.

[ought-six]

“It’s gonna be them, or us.”

Yup.

[fella]

Oklahoma has a n answer.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

If people are not smart enough to learn the language of this country, maybe its time to send them home

Its not the fault of a police force that citizens refuse to learn the language.

[Vigilanteman]

Here is a hint for the Mesa Police and the illegal alien apologists:

If you are ever in Salt Lake City, arrange for a tour of the American Express call center.

It is staffed by mainly young people fluent not only in Spanish, but scores of other world languages. From what I observed, it took them an average of about 5 seconds to connect a caller with a staff member who spoke their language and could address their concern.

And they do it without one dime of taxpayer money. Why does this work so well? I'm not sure, but I suspect it is because the people who call in are legitimate card holders who either pay a membership fee or have gone through legitimate channels to obtain a card.

Unlike, I suspect, most of the special status victims in Mesa.

[Kolokotronis]

Oh, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you, George Bush! :)

Since it appears our Mohammedan/Mexican loving POTUS won’t be impeached for failure to protect the border, the election can’t come soon enough!

[YellowRoseofTx]

More and more these kind of big problems are going to happen, which means either only mexicans will be hired for all jobs and we just hand our country over to Mexico, or people began waking up and taking some major action to take our country back. Too many of the authority want to take the easy way and pander to the illegals who refuse to assimilate, creating these problems.

[txdoda]

a single municipality is forced to spend $118,000 per year translating 911 calls

and just think.... *if* they catch the bad guys, taxpayers are then forced to provide them with court translators.

In Dallas the 'court translators' (making 25 bucks per hour) are now asking for a raise to 50 BUCKS per hour.

this *cheap* labor continues to get very 'spensive'.

[kabar]

Perhaps equally important, business groups seeking to corner the Hispanic market support bilingualism as well. Indeed, the orientation of U.S. businesses to Hispanic customers means they increasingly need bilingual employees; therefore, bilingualism is affecting earnings. Bilingual police officers and firefighters in southwestern cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas are paid more than those who only speak English. In Miami, one study found, families that spoke only Spanish had average incomes of $18,000; English-only families had average incomes of $32,000; and bilingual families averaged more than $50,000. For the first time in U.S. history, increasing numbers of Americans (particularly black Americans) will not be able to receive the jobs or the pay they would otherwise receive because they can speak to their fellow citizens only in English.

If the spread of Spanish as the United States' second language continues, it could, in due course, have significant consequences in politics and government. In many states, those aspiring to political office might have to be fluent in both languages. Bilingual candidates for president and elected federal positions would have an advantage over English-only speakers. If dual-language education becomes prevalent in elementary and secondary schools, teachers will increasingly be expected to be bilingual. Government documents and forms could routinely be published in both languages. The use of both languages could become acceptable in congressional hearings and debates and in the general conduct of government business. Because most of those whose first language is Spanish will also probably have some fluency in English, English speakers lacking fluency in Spanish are likely to be and feel at a disadvantage in the competition for jobs, promotions, and contracts.

Samuel Huntington

[Squat]

If they can’t speak english just deport them and ask questions they can’t understand anyway, later.

[abovethefray]

The answer is obvious. Require the police to speak every third world language, so as to better serve all the newest ‘citizens’ that are flooding our once great country. If they can’t speak every dialect from around the globe fluently, fire them.

[Condor51]

I'm a tad corn fused????

According to a 'certain person' who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, these are all "hard working, good people", sooooo why is there crime in these neighborhoods the first place???? I thought they all worked from dawn 'til dusk - at jobs lazy Americans refused to do - then sat around in a family circle singing songs from home and playing the guitar. Then there's that whole 'family values' thing we've been beat over the head with. So I just don't see why they'd even NEED the police - ever.

Boy, I hope that 'certain person' wasn't pulling our leg. I'd be extremely disappointed.