We have quite a few towns who have no police - so they hire State Troopers (at overtime rates) with the understanding that they are expected to write enough tickets and generate enough fines to offset their expense.
Also, we have a few towns of the same size as those above who have 5-8 police. They set up speed traps on 4 lane highways that they have annexed into the town and put unrealistic speed limits on them. Police chief is expected to generate enough revenue to fund town budgets.
Then there is one stretch of highway I was on in Florida where the speed limits changed by more than 15 miles an hour 23 times in 12 miles across the county. One of the signs were 50’ off the highway as you rounded a curve dropping the speed limit from 65 to 35 - no warning, and no way of seeing it coming... They claim it is for the safety of their children..... Oh, really? If that were the case, there would be a big sign saying CHILDREN AHEAD - Speed Limit 35 - wouldn’t you think?
Then there is the sloppy police work... Oh, sorry we broke down your door and scared you and your children half to death and shot your dogs - we were supposed to be two blocks down the street... (there have been two cases of that in the last couple of months within 50 miles of us - One of them was the local town mayors house - Raid was by State Police who didn’t know it was the mayor’s home.)
Then there are those bureaucrats who ‘turn in’ people to bolster the power of their positions. Like the food cooperative a couple of months ago.
Oh, and lets not forget those horrible Amish in Pennsylvania who went to jail because they endangered the entire community - They had the audacity to use an outhouse - bureaucrats had pushed for legislation - ‘For the well-being of the community’ that even though they had been using outhouses for generations, and were way away from any well, the powers that be decided to force them to put in sewer connections a half mile away - I guess that was so that when it rained hard, the municipal sewage treatment plant could dump the overflow into the creek and nobody could be sued...
LOL TAC you didn’t ask for that... There are a few subjects that get me on my soapbox.
Guess I am using box #1 that our forefathers gave us...
Remember those 4 boxes to manage our country...
Soap Box
Ballot Box
Jury Box
Ammo Box
Remember those 4 boxes to manage our country...
Soap Box
Ballot Box
Jury Box
Ammo Box<<<
Excellent list!!!
Well said, I appreciate the rant.
My husband’s former girlfriend’s new boyfriend (this was long before we met!) got a threatening letter. The local police of an Arizona city which shall go unnamed assumed it was Tim who sent the letter, and took him down to the police station and tried to force him to confess. He didn’t confess, thank God. It finally came out that the man’s former girlfriend had sent the letter. There was no apology or compensation... “Oh well, that’s law enforcement.”
My husband has respect for the beat officer but he is very wary of detectives. They can get involved in a lot of rogue operations and not necessarily arrest and question the real culprits.
On second thought, Tim’s dad was the Fire Chief in Fresno years ago so maybe he doesn’t have as much respect for the police as the average person.