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Now, I need concrete solutions to take to these dopes on the City Council so people and businesses in the area aren't harmed any further. Got any? :)

So I can't criticize this policy unless I can solve the crime problem? As I mentioned, if there was an easy solution, it would have been implemented already. There are lots of bad ways to reduce crime. You could have cops shoot all suspected drunk drivers on sight. Would that lessen the numbers of drunk drivers out there? Certainly. It would be more effective than all the previous drunk driving programs combined in getting drunks off the road. That still doesn't make it a good law or a good idea.

(Sorry I had to go last night. D@mn family; always wanting meals and clean socks & undies on a regular basis, the ingrates! Don't they realize that I have Crime Fighting Duties to attend to?) ;)

"That still doesn't make it a good law or a good idea."

Well, where do you draw the line then between the "rights" of roving gangs of thugs and the regular citizenry?

Step back and zoom out and see the Bigger Picture. If crime isn't stomped out when it first raises it's head, it all goes downhill from there. Broken Window Theory, Anyone?

I stated in an earlier post that gang activity is moving into the surrounding Red areas, seeping in from the Blue area of Madistan.

Madison and Milwaukee (Dane & Milwaukee counties) have our highest crime rates in the state. The ('rat) Governor constantly shifts money from the red areas of our state to the blue areas trying to combat these problems, with little success becuase he thinks like a 'rat.

In the long run, I may not have the State Highway that I live on repaired in a timely manner because funds are directed to either of those crime-ridden cities. Say I'm on the Interstate and I hit a deer and there's no State Trooper around to come to my aid because there are less Troopers out there because funds had been directed to the cities again?

See what I mean? I'm not disagreeing that people have rights, but why is it always that the Bad Guys get the money that the Good Guys pay for with their tax dollars to provide city & state services? Do ya really think these gang members, who are out at 3am are getting up again at 6am to shower, shave, go to the office, earn their paycheck and pay taxes? LOL!

It's just frustrating. It's hard to watch it happen before your very eyes. I think I should go back to ignoring the cancer that's growing all around me. (Not!)