Posted on 02/04/2013 7:09:17 PM PST by lowbridge
NJ cities have been doing this for years (long before budget cuts reduced them to smaller, middle-aged police forces). Everybody in NJ knows the crime stats are bogus, and they avoid certain areas accordingly.
“If something bad happens, you are on your own.
Oh, and...
PAY YOUR DAMN TAXES PEASANT!”
Here in NJ the urban underclass doesn’t pay taxes anyway (property, income, whatever); I’m happy to see their police forces reduced to hollow shells. The suburbs tired of paying them to do nothing anyway.
The continuing descent into 3rd world country status. Chicago, Detroit and every other democrat hell-hole is the natural progression of democrat policies.
We have the same problem, to a smaller degree, in my democrat run utopia. There are no taxpayers. The businesses have all moved out because of theft, crime and high taxes. The democrat politicians and the unions have a strangle hold on everything. The takers use up more and more resources. The police dept. operates at bare bones minimum staffing. In our case, we are under the state average of police officers per resident average.
The state average of police officers per 1,000 residents in Ohio is 2.11, we are at 1.45.
In our democrat utopia the police dept. was allowed to create more supervisor and ‘inside’ positions. So there are actually more cops sitting inside behind a desk, with either stripes, bars or stars on their sleeves and shoulders, than there are working the road.
The democrat run city, and the police union, work hand in hand to create these problems.
Back in the early 1990’s the people of the city here voted, and passed, a police levy which was supposed to give us more manpower, better equipment, etc. Well, that got pirated. Stolen. Used to line the pockets of politicians and cronies.
To the people of Chicago, Detroit, my town (which has been nicknamed “little Detroit” by a larger, neighboring police dept.) you get what you vote for.
You voted democrat, this is what you get. The reason your PD is terrible is union democrat corruption.
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