Now this in New York.
More indications of our rights being taken away.
Here on the Island, we had one police department closed, and police service provided by the town in which the village was located. And since the State Troopers have statewide jurisdiction, the easiest way to handle it is to have the troopers take over.
Bad Cop = No Donut is okay but martial law?
Believe it or not the former Schenectady Chief of Police and his wife ran a drug smuggling ring from their home. Both were convicted after taking plea bargains.
Don’t they have a county sheriff to whom the responsibility would default?
Seems more like an indication of over reaction.
General George Patton violated it several times before WWII for a good cause. Look up Patton and Phenix City, Alabama.
Hmmmm, Glenn Beck is reading this now on the radio. Glenn/Stu are FReeping... lurking?
How many cops are in this department? How long have there been problems and of what sort? Sounds like there is a heck of a lot we don’t know. And is this mayor a loon, suggesting martial law??
Schenectady is a shit hole and has been in a death spiral since GE pulled out decades ago.
It seems US law enforcement considers the military just another tool in their toolbox. Not how it was supposed to be..
This dept has a history of disaster
How about calling up the unorganized militia. (Ooops there is that nasty politically incorrect noun militia.) Anyway, I’m sure there are hundreds of senior citizens retired and otherwise that would bring their personal weapons (Ooops personal weapons???Who would have thought???) and police the streets and neighborhoods.
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.
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.
What about the County Sheriff???