[relictele]

In many areas of the country, law enforcement resources are being dramatically cut back due to budget problems at the same time that crime is rapidly rising.

Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.

[kearnyirish2]

“Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.”

I thought they’d given up on that; once the decision was made not to “harass” illegals, you’d be waving through a good number of drivers in ANY city.

Cities died because there was no reason to go or live there anymore; as manufacturing diappeared, fewer people worked in cities, and as the nature of shopping changed, fewer people had any reason to go there at all. At this point moving to a city is equivalent to adopting a public school teacher, a cop, a carrer politician, and five members of a permanent underclass “family” - you have to pay/clothe/house/feed all of them. No wonder companies and taxpayers have fled...

[PapaBear3625]

Yet they still manage to muster manpower and gear to conduct East German style checkpoints and speed traps.

Arresting gang bangers does not produce revenue. Arresting middle-class drivers for speeding and DUI does. Increasingly, police care more about revenue than their official jobs. In what way does this make them different from old-style highwaymen?

[EBH]

East German style checkpoints and speed traps.

uh...you mean revenue traps.

[cherry]

lack of law enforcement is not a bad thing if you don't live in the inner city...basically, you protect yourself and your own, and the consequences be damned...

you know the politically correct police will only protect a certain few, and the law will only go after the right wing nut jobs....so who needs em?