Comments on: Will Thousands Of Police Layoffs Unleash Chaos And Anarchy Across America?

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[...] Anthony Batts says that due to severe budget cuts there are a number of crimes that his department will simply not be able to respond to any longer. The crimes that the Oakland police will no longer be responding to include grand theft, [...]

By: Mene Tekel

Mene Tekel — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:35:06 +0000

This article is written like the ramblings of a paranoid schizophrenic. Cops are bullies and thugs. We live in a world where personal security is cheap and readily available. I’m not talking about guns like these hicks that want to tote firearms like the very thugs they despise — I’m talking home alarm systems, security cameras and locks.

By: Jonas Harbaugh

Jonas Harbaugh — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:52:21 +0000

The sheeple need to stop sending their money to the federal government. Your income tax funds this monstrous empire building and police state. I am urging everyone to stop withholding and stop giving your money to these thugs. Keep the money local and you will see a rebirth. It’s tie for the states to say no more, we’re keep ing our revenues so we don’t have to beg to get it back.

By: S Barringer

S Barringer — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:36:09 +0000

Nancy said, “Government generally has deliberately created a “dependency state” a mind set that dictates that we the sheeple must have someone else “do it for us”… NOT SO~!
Time to start doing “it” for ourselves.”
Reply: Absolutely right! It’s time for citizens to become self-sufficient, self-reliant, and relearn self-defense. This used to be the individual’s responsibility–if they wanted to survive. Now, self-defense has become the major condition for each of us to survive the out of control, monstrosity the government has created.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:12:47 +0000

Police are not required (by law) to do anything that does not directly involve the protection and enhancement of the “system”… People are just now finding that out..
So, people are beginning to understand that THEY.. the taxpayers could do with a whole LOT LESS police who are bullying, harassing, beating, shooting, and scorning the man on the street.. the taxpayer.
Government generally has deliberately created a “dependency state” a mind set that dictates that we the sheeple must have someone else “do it for us”… NOT SO~!
Time to start doing “it” for ourselves.

By: EX COP

EX COP — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:59:05 +0000

I am prior law enforcement…notice the key word ‘prior’. Much of what has been stated in the replies to this article are fairly correct. Sad to say, the days of law enforcement upholding and defending the Constitution of the United States (which is what we as officers do when sworn in) are a bygone era. Yes corruption is rampant. Yes a lot of cops are egotistical and arrogant. There are some good reasons for it, but….is there really a good reason for everyone to be a suspect? To continually use authority to bait and switch the general public into jail? Oh yes, there are those who are always walking the line of crime, full of lies, always manipulating, basically low life. But I have experienced police tactics after retirement – namely the Oklahoma State Troopers. I was profiled as a potential drug runner (I was driving a 2000 ford 250 truck with a 100 gallon fuel tank in the truck bed). The trooper found that I was driving to close to the car in front of me….barely, just enough to warrant in his eyes to stop me. I know all the tactics and he did everyone of them. It all ended with me not consenting to a search of my truck, so he used the drug dog for a sniff, then let me go. Here is a law abiding citizen about his legal business getting stopped by an over zealous trooper. Since then I’ve repented from how I was as an officer and feel sorry for everyone I see with their affects strewn along Interstate 40.

My point is this: Citizens of America – Arm yourselves, hold all government officials accountable for what they do, get involved at all levels, put YOUR FOOT ON THEIR NECKS! And when all else fails let us take our country back!

By: Dreamer

Dreamer — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:37:41 +0000

The police have NEVER had a duty or legal obligation to provide protection for individual citizens. The US SCOTUS, as well as Federal and State courts have ruled on this in over a dozen cases–the benchmark is “Warren v. District of Columbia”. So having fewer (or more) cops on the street will NOT have ANY statistically significant effect on the number or types of crimes committed. It will ONLY effect the speed of arrest AFTER the crimes are committed, and the number of citations that a department can write. I have concealed carry permits in 3 states, and I Open Carry wherever legal (which is about 99% of the time). I value my own life, and that of my family too much to trust it to some minimum-wage dispatcher, and the average 15-minute response time for a 911 call… When seconds count, the police are only minutes away…

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:31:48 +0000

With all the dirty cops we have in Memphis, TN, we could lay off about half of them and not miss them at all. IN fact the city would make money. the **** cops we got here total a police car a day doing stupid stuff like speeding without going to a call; pulling out of a service station and hitting another cop head on (happened last week 7/23/10)- that totaled two cars; then there are the times they elect NOT to use a siren and run red lights and broad side civilians… so in short, Memphis, TN would be better off without all the cops. If we need a cop now days, you better have the phone number of the local Krispy-Kreme doughnut shop in your back pocket!

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:13:53 +0000

I live in canada so sorry to you country down

By: Ian MacLeod

Ian MacLeod — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 04:50:40 +0000

I think we had far more cops – and far more “victimless crime” laws – than we needed to begin with. In cities we’ve forgotten how to walk over to a neighbor’s and ask them to please turn the noise down, it’s almost midnight. And if Smalltown America out in the boonies start getting an influx from the cities, I suspect we’ll find that rural areas are sufficiently well-armed to take care of themselves.

Anyone else see something wrong here? The gov’t just offered $25 BILLION for a new nuke power plant, but can’t help out with a shortage of cops – unless we want some free foreign troops and US military taking their places under martial law and a suspended Constitution.

How about we just say “HELL no!”?

Ian