23 March 2007

Metro Squad: Act Two (scene III)...

Every once in a while, the local paper presents a story with ALL the angles well covered. Such was the case yesterday in the News-Sentinel with Kevin Leininger's article about the Metro Squad wanting to be reactivated by Sheriff Ken Fries (as reported on this blog several days ago).
But wait...it does get "better"...
Rev. Latham has chosen once again to wield a wrench, ready to toss it into the cogs of law-enforcement progress in what the police are attempting to do in this city and county...namely see a substantial DROP in crime; a drop that would become a lot longer-lived than a year or two. They don't call it PUBLIC SAFETY for no reason, do they? I guess the old "race card" was getting a tad dusty over the past few months since the Wal-Mart fiasco...time to get it back out, eh?
I hope I'm wrong here.

According to the latest report from Morgan-Quinto about the most dangerous states...INDIANA has dropped THREE spots from 25 to 28 (Nevada at #50 being the worst) since last year. Actually, going back as far as 1994, we've yet to climb ANY HIGHER than 24 on the list...so something is definitely wrong. We're not going in the right direction, are we? If one were to follow census trends, our county is GROWING (350,000+), but not by the method you might believe. It's due to BIRTHS, and not people wanting to MOVE here (wonder why THAT is?), so that only proves that more and more people have more and more time to procreate (and obviously commit more crime). And after seeing the way they treat their PETS...that's one SCARY visual. Notice I didn't even address any illegal aliens in the mix (yet).

Of course we DO have an increasing number of freeloaders, sapping tax money from those who DO work so they can get their Crunch 'N Munch and Orange Drink at the local Krogers. And we DO have a rising drug trade, making auto paint, wheel rim/ tire places laugh all the way to the bank (wish such could be said about MUFFLER shops). Hell, Indiana is "home" to about THIRTY different violent gangs (thanks for the transients, Illinois, MIchigan, and Ohio)! And we have more varieties of drugs coming into the city than you can shake a blunt at. But that must be neither here nor there to the good "Rev". He's just worried about the police getting all "cowboy" on "his" people.

I'll keep saying this until you start to listen, Rev....it's called CRIMINAL PROFILING, kapesh? It means when there are 90 percent BLACKS in a given area, the people that will most likely be pulled over for an infraction (like speeding) would be....(once again...all together, gang...) BLACK. How much easier CAN we make it for you to understand? I believe you're an educated enough man to comprehend this...or am I wrong? And naturally, we're NOT talking about ALL blacks, Rev...just the less than TEN PERCENT of "your" people who are committing over EIGHTY PERCENT of the DAMN CRIME in "your" community! Seems YOU have a few too many people falling through these huge cracks (more like chasms) in "your" realm, Rev!

Sheriff Ken wants to target crime hot spots...oops, those spots might be in predominantly BLACK areas of the city...looks like a job for NAACPMAN!!!! I guess the good Rev will want to have Sheriff Ken walking on eggs like Chief York has been doing for the past few years...all in the name of "better race relations". I know Rusty must get damn tired of all these stupid lawsuits against his department, instigated by people like sweet old Hana Stith (among some select others). Too many people are constantly fomenting distrust of the police by their actions, their lifestyles, and their overall demeanor. And that needs to stop now if any long-lasting progress is to be made.

The police have enough on their plates with placing their lives on the line to deal with a sub-cultured, multi-generational mindset against ANY law-enforcement agency, as if any "community" can handle their OWN problems without outside intervention. We call that ANARCHY. Well, we can plainly see the result of this "self-vigilance" or self-policing, as it were, can't we?....it's called ANOTHER HOMICIDE in the city's southeast quadrant. But the latest news has Sheriff Fries not necessarily having the Metro Squad ON the southeast side. That would (potentially) conflict with ongoing FWPD teams working in troubled areas. Hey, Rusty...you want to park a sector car in MY driveway to catch some perps, I'll give you plate numbers, descriptions, times and a cup of coffee to the officer...how's that for better police-community relations? But be forewarned...I'm not black, nor do I have a rap sheet. I just obey the law because it's expected of me (as well as everyone else).

THIS is a perfect case of "if" my (property) tax money were to go for having MORE officers, and MORE patrols in MY part of town so as to get public pissers off the streets, child predators out of our neighborhoods, scofflaws from getting away with anything they wish, boomcars from keeping us awake to all hours, illegal guns out of the hands of the wrong people, drug dealers from plying their trade in front of our houses, and this general apathetic pall from hanging over this part of town....SO BE IT...BRING IT THE HELL ON! But that doesn't seem to be part of the Rev's plan...so he must be OK with the status quo. I, on the other hand...am NOT. Wonder if it's because I give a crap?

Rev. Latham would also like to see more black and hispanic officers...well Rev, if they could get through the screening processes and the academy, they'd be ON the street, wouldn't they? Now be honest, Rev..."IF" every single officer on the southeast side WERE to be BLACK (or hispanic) and they STILL pulled "your" people over, wouldn't you STILL be pissing and moaning? And how can the officers just doing their job be construed as ANY form of RACISM, when (if) the officers are BLACK, hmm? I think you're a bit befuddled where the colors BLACK, BLUE and WHITE are concerned.

. Crime always was and always will be...COLORLESS. It affects everyone of any color, race, or religion. It's people with little knowledge of human nature, and a blatant disregard for civility that "color" crime with it's various hues and contrasts.

How about I send you a box of Crayolas?

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