[thathamiltonwoman]

Follow a cop's daily life in NYC, Detroit or LA and you wouldn't say that. Any place that has big time gangs and big time drugs is a a kill zone day in and day out.

[eno_]

NYPD is relatively well-run.

Detroit, however, is a joke.

In NO city do the cops have a decent solution rate for robbery muggings and burglaries.

Even the rape and murder solution rates are down from the historic norm of 80%. IIRC it is about 50% in Detroit. That's right: unless you are caught dripping with your victim's blood screaming "I killed him!" you have a good chance of getting away with murder.

And it isn't as if police don't cost a lot. The cost keeps going up as effectiveness goes down.

Cops are going the way of public schools.

And I should respect cops in these cities... why?

[from occupied ga]

Follow a cop's daily life in NYC, Detroit or LA and you wouldn't say that. Any place that has big time gangs and big time drugs is a a kill zone day in and day out.

You throw words around, but you don't have a clue as to what they mean. Like "kill zone" This implies that someone is killed right? Well maybe someone is, but it is most likely an ordinary citizen deprived of his God given right to bear arms by cops.

You've been watching too many Hollywood cop licking shows. What facts do you have to support your position? How about none. Its all in the facts baby, the facts. How many cops were killed in NYC in the line of duty last year? Big fat zero. How many serfs were killed in NYC last year? Don't remember exactly, but several hundred.

Likewise Baltimore - in the last 10 years 2 cops (out of a force of 3000) were killed in line of duty. Hundreds of ordinary serfs were killed every year for the past ten. I once did the math and in Baltimore it was safer to be a cop (by about a factor of 2) than an ordinary citizen, so before you engage your mouth fingers, you should put your brain in gear. Making fatuous statements without any objective reality is something that liberals do. Are you a (ug) liberal?

[supercat]

Any place that has big time gangs and big time drugs is a a kill zone day in and day out.

Yup. Which is why in many areas the cops let the crooks go about their business while they [the cops] harrass law-abiding citizens so they can claim to be "doing something".