Mayor's License Suspended
From:
Wizard Marks
Date:
May 10 17:35 UTC
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Guy Gambill: "The 32 officers we just hired will spend the bulk of their time
on this sort of thing, not on chasing down murderers, rapists and thieves...
and the stats will show that crime is "up". But is it really?"
It seems to be a fairly common belief that all cops would be chasing murderers
if they just were not goofing around with law violations like driving without a
license. But, the reality is that the MPD hired 32 patrol officers, not
detectives. The detective types are few and busy, and luckily, very few murders
are a mystery.
Crime is always up during times of economic depression, that's when people get
really desperate as the bottom rung of the ladder gets squeezed out of
legitimate work. Capitalism relies on a steady pool of unemployed,
incarcerated, and armed forces to keep wages low. This ain't no mystery,
either.
So, yeah, we do need more officers to knock more heads, incarcerate more
people, and keep the criminal "justice" system in full flower. But we also need
them to keep the rest of us on the path. For instance, maybe they'll have
enough cops in the Third Precinct to ticket some of the large number of people
who go South on the one way North streets which feed into Lake St. Those
buggers are a threat to life and limb.