Posted on 03/23/2009 7:59:28 AM PDT by bimboeruption
The Schenectady department is probably the most corrupt in NY State. Drug dealers sometimes go free because when it’s time to go to trial the drug evidence is missing.
What a drama queen.
The law duty should next fall to the elected county sheriff. He can deputize people to take over the bureaucratic functions while his desk-bound deputies patrol the town. I’m sure there’s retired deputies and veterans who can push papers, handle dispatch, count bullets, ration doughnuts and answer phones.
Some politicians are so stupid they need to locked in zoos for the public safety.
Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that. Good stuff in that link too. Thanks!
Long Island, N.Y.
Thank you, I wrote that.
Does this mean that it's basically impossible to fire a police officer because they still get lifetime benefits? The sentence didn't make sense to me.
Thanks for the link.
Yes, in stages. The old factory was still visible and in ruins from the highway when I left quite some time ago.
ML/NJ
GE is the largest employer in Schenectady by a very large margin, and thus they have a very close relationship. What happens to one will usually effect the other very quickly. As GE diversified in the late 20th century, parts of the Schenectady works closed, laying off large numbers of people. But still to say they are still the largest employer doesn't say much for that poor but once very beautiful and vibrant city.
I used to go to an acting/modeling agent of sorts when I was a kid and her office was in the Proctor Arcade downtown. It was once such a beautiful building, it was defunct even then...but even as a kid the ruins of the city fascinated me.
Schenectady? (Maybe compared to Troy!)
I went to RPI in the 60s and had occasion to go over to Schenectady once in a while. I never saw much there.
ML/NJ
LOL! Yeah it must have seen it’s hey day in the early 1900’s. Troy too though was once a decent place. Hard to imagine. I went to Russell Sage BTW.
HEY HEY, easy on the Troylets. (I lived on Pawling Ave at one point..)
:)
What about the County Sheriff???
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