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Small town cops really do suck
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Yeah, I live in small-town US where many residents have complained about speeding in areas with heavy pedestrian use. In response, the local PD was quoted on the front page of the paper saying they don't have time to enforce speed limits. A few years later and they were again on the front page saying that they don't have time or equipment to enforce parking regulations. So here they're somewhere between suggestion and completely ignored, but the next town over is filled with speed cameras and highway patrol sitting in wait to meet their quota...both towns on the same road.
TF are they doing, then?!
Figuring out ways to look understaffed so they can get more officers...around that time their call volume "doubled" over a year because they changed how they tracked calls. (Accounting for that, it was roughly the same.) But they used that to ask for another officer...and I assume they probably even need another one if we want them to do speed enforcement.
Figuring out ways to look understaffed so they can get more officers...around that time their call volume "doubled" over a year because they changed how they tracked calls. (Accounting for that, it was roughly the same.) But they used that to ask for another officer...and I assume they probably even need another one if we want them to do speed enforcement.
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