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You live in an area that has very little crime relative to the rest of the city. The PPD is short staffed and the attention needs to be focused elsewhere. That's the reality.
And then you have people like sandsonik who want to defund the police. Imagine if they got their way.
She can't understand that they were busy last year. Taking 268 illegal guns off the street resulting in 244 arrests. At great peril of personal harm. Lazy bums coming out of that dreadful academy. Doing nothing, as usual. It's all about her though.
It's not being addressed since we have a police shortage and also a rather "lazy me" Providence police force. This has been an issue for years. I think a lot of it has to do with the Providence Police Academy being separate from other police training in the state. This academy was established politically.
I have personally seen Providence police littering, observing people running stop signs and not going after them, etc. etc. Theft complaints are often met with "sorry lady, but not much we can do about it" comments. I have also had to cite an ordinance to a policeman who had never heard of it.
Having observed police behavior in other states, from too eager to about right, I'd say Providence police have been lacking for decades.
Wasting time on Smartphones may explain part of this. I once observed a police officer in downtown Tucson one night, oblivious to a loud boom car driving by, and laughing at his Smartphone.
Bloomberg worked very hard at making New York City the least noisy city in the country. Car alarms were banned in 2004, Police sirens were also banned (only exceptions were Fire trucks and ambulances), Boom cars silenced and someone from the city would go around and use a decimeter to determine if your A/C unit was emitting too many decibels of sound. In the residential areas of Manhattan, I actually saw those signs when visiting: $350 fine for honking your horn.
Wasting time on Smartphones may explain part of this. I once observed a police officer in downtown Tucson one night, oblivious to a loud boom car driving by, and laughing at his Smartphone.
Bloomberg worked very hard at making New York City the least noisy city in the country. Car alarms were banned in 2004, Police sirens were also banned (only exceptions were Fire trucks and ambulances), Boom cars silenced and someone from the city would go around and use a decimeter to determine if your A/C unit was emitting too many decibels of sound. In the residential areas of Manhattan, I actually saw those signs when visiting: $350 fine for honking your horn.
A cop missed a loud car in Tuscon, and this news is only now filtering into New England?
Race and Hispanic Origin
White alone, percent 95.5%
Black or African American alone, percent(a) 0.1%
American Indian and Alaska Native alone, percent(a) 0.5%
Asian alone, percent(a) 0.3%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone, percent(a) 0.0%
Two or More Races, percent 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino, percent(b) 0.2%
White alone, not Hispanic or Latino, percent 95.3%
Bloomberg worked very hard at making New York City the least noisy city in the country. Car alarms were banned in 2004, Police sirens were also banned (only exceptions were Fire trucks and ambulances), Boom cars silenced and someone from the city would go around and use a decimeter to determine if your A/C unit was emitting too many decibels of sound. In the residential areas of Manhattan, I actually saw those signs when visiting: $350 fine for honking your horn.
This demonstrates how leadership's focus on noise and other urban quality of life issues can work. If it has worked in NYC, it can work almost anywhere.
Your diplomacy is misguided in this instance. "Lazy", "do nothing", "bastar*s"? You're either in agreement with these assessments or you're not. And now it's being put forth that it should be allowable to terminate a public servant for an alleged offense that they haven't yet been convicted of. In the United States of America.
Most bosses can fire an employee for poor performance. It shouldn't have to rise to the level of illegality.
Hanley was convicted and is still on the job. Lugo was acquitted and was later caught sleeping on the job. In the United States of America. I guess that's what you can expect when police know they're untouchable.
You live in an area that has very little crime relative to the rest of the city. The PPD is short staffed and the attention needs to be focused elsewhere. That's the reality.
And then you have people like sandsonik who want to defund the police. Imagine if they got their way.
I don't want to defund the police. I would like them to do their job though.
The personal experience she related was seeing policemen littering, not stopping people for running red lights and not doing anything in response to theft reports.
She extrapolated that the Police Academy must play a part in producing these poor cops. If that's not it, what is it? Poor leadership and corrupt culture in the force?
Thank you for actually reading and understanding my post!
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