Why are CRPD officers entering homes?

[zz4guy]

I'm really tired of hearing on the news everyday how we should be kneeling down and kissing the royal arses of policemen, firemen, and local officials because they are out there doing their godamn jobs. This is why we PAY THEM WITH OUR TAXES all year long.

And then they violate our property rights and steal our posessions. Such heros

[DMRyan]

Should we not be "kneeling down and kissing the royal arses" of our trained soldiers protecting our nation overseas. It's our god damned tax money paying them to do their jobs afterall. I'm not saying that this thing doesn't go on in the worst of situations, but I do think we owe public servants more gratitude. They're the ones making sacrifices for someone else, not the other way around.

You guys don't make any sense and sound like a bunch of kooky conspriracy theorists. Move to a cabin in Montana and form a militia or something, or dump tea bags into the lake to protest your taxes for necessary public services. Nobody will give your cause a decent ear in real life, so you might as well do what you can on the internet.

[LPerkins33]

Originally Posted by DMRyan

Should we not be "kneeling down and kissing the royal arses" of our trained soldiers protecting our nation overseas. It's our god damned tax money paying them to do their jobs afterall. I'm not saying that this thing doesn't go on in the worst of situations, but I do think we owe public servants more gratitude. They're the ones making sacrifices for someone else, not the other way around.

You guys don't make any sense and sound like a bunch of kooky conspriracy theorists. Move to a cabin in Montana and form a militia or something, or dump tea bags into the lake to protest your taxes for necessary public services. Nobody will give your cause a decent ear in real life, so you might as well do what you can on the internet.

fact remains: at least here in Iowa City the police haven't even lifted a finger to help, they sit in their cars with the air conditioning on doing nothing. They aren't making ANY sacrifices. 90% of the time cops sit on their asses doing nothing and when a tragedy comes around where they can actually do something other than pull over speeders they don't step up to the challenge. To serve and protect? Give me a break.

[DMRyan]

My experience of working with police in Des Moines is that they were reporting to duty on their time off, working extra weekends, whatever it took to help out. I personally helped with voluntary evacuation efforts in a potentially flooded neighborhood, and the cops were out on their feet going door to door. In our one neighborhood that was flooded, it was the police that provided the extra security needed to thwart looting or worse. In Des Moines, I'd bet that many are grateful for the job the DMPD did during our latest mini-disaster.

I'm aware that police corruption does occur, but Iowa is far from a place like New Orleans, and this grouping of all police into this category of corruption when they're helping out with a disaster is unfounded and out of line.

[Busch71]

Originally Posted by DMRyan

I'm aware that police corruption does occur, but Iowa is far from a place like New Orleans...

So? It still happens, that's the problem. Within the past year I know of at least 3 CRPD who have been fired, 2 of them detectives. In Creston the police chief and assistant police chief raped a bartender at the country club just a couple months ago. N.O. may be far from Iowa but corruption definitely is not.

[neanerbean]

Originally Posted by Chicago60614

I think they're less concerned about doing things by the book as the city falls to pieces, and more worried about getting everything back on its feet. I don't really think Cedar Rapids is full of horrible cops who are taking advantage of this entire situation.

they're helping out

Uhh...yeah they kinda are. This PD has a colorful history of cops doing bad things and it wouldn't surprise me one bit that this is happening