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Footnote: Montgomery County MD is the most liberal county in Maryland, followed by Howard County. Let me know when your county adopts "peer pressure" as a law enforcement strategy.

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Again, please inform yourself about Soviet tactics before espousing the similarities in law enforcement techniques. In Soviet Russia, citizens were killed or sent to gulags if they did not provide requested information about their comrades to the Cheka, the NKVD, and the KGB. Your analogy resembles the Left's tactic of calling the president a Nazi.

In the case of Howard County, government is not using the citizens - the citizens are incensed and want something done about the speeding through residential areas, so they are participating in their government to reduce the problem. If given the chance to participate in such a program in my community, there would be droves of people willing to take care of business. It is an example of citizens taking charge of their own safety as the police cannot be everywhere. That is why I own a gun - to prevent harm from coming to my family when law enforcement cannot do so.

As far as funding the police, I never said it was a problem, merely that people debate whether or not to fund the department.

And as for the liberal demographic - conservatives are more supportive of "law and order", because without it, chaos would reign. Perhaps the resources are spread thin in Howard County due to a liberal ideology of funding teachers and social initiatives as a priority over the police. It is usually the leftists who bemoan the "oppression" by the police (ironically expecting govt. to take over all other aspects of our lives). It would explain a lot.

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"Footnote: Montgomery County MD is the most liberal county in Maryland, followed by Howard County."


10-15 years ago HC was conservative Republican except Columbia MD. Now we are invaded by Kerry voters (and immigrants) who demand endless local tax increases, many are high paid government contractors getting rich off homeland security and other govmt spending, looking down at the Red States. Of course their research is very important to this country, ask Kerry. They want federal taxes to go up like with our county taxes. With them they bring crowded schools and clogged roads.