Law enforcement in this city worked very well when the Chief of Police and the District Commander Inspectors answered only to the three Commissioners that ran this relatively small town with apolitical administration.

Any senior police officer, criminal attorney or judge will tell you that privately.

Law enforcement and adjudication were not politicized.

Public safety was job one.

Today it’s spread-the-misery politics and social engineering without license.

Reformed Somali Pirate “Tantum Eruditi Sunt Liberi”

What’s community policing ?

-Just old-school police work, really.

Cops on the beat, walking in pairs, every day.

After roll call on each shift, they march out of the district station in pairs, all of them, and the squad cars stay in the garage.

Two cops walking up and down streets can walk an entire PSA in an 8 hour shift, alleys included.

Too, cold; stomp your feet.

That’s police presence on a regualr basis.

It breeds and strengthens neighborhood and territorial familiarity and awareness for everyone.

Without it the scofflaws gain ground and feel emboldened.

With it, public safety expands, law and order governs as it should.

Each of us can go on with our lives at work, school, and play.

That’s what today is called community policing.

-Just old-school police work, really.

That’s what government is for; to do only what citizens cannot do for themselves.

Lincoln taught us that.

Reformed Somali Pirtate “Tantum Eruditi Sunt Liberi”

Any efforts at “rising up” would need to be completely united (we are not there, read this list and that is clear) and would require great bravery. People get targeted and that is when they crack. I don’t blame anyone. Especially when they have young men in their homes. We have to protect young men.

I would love to hear ideas on how we could turn this around without dividing us. The discussions about unemployed and racial stereotyping are pointless in that they do not get at the issue. There is money to be made, people are making it, and they can without much of a challenge because it’s so easy to divide people and instill fear.

Peace y’all.

Frankie, in this neighborhood, no wanna be Hispanic gangster is going to come over on 3rd and Emerson and shoot anyone. We have had a problem out of the black men hanging out on 3rd St. for at least the last 7 years. When my mom (a 58 y/o woman) comes to visit, she walks the long way to the store to avoid them. My mom has seen the height of the civil rights movement growing up in Alabama. Yet, she will tell you that the KKK had nothing on these black men, in terms of instilling fear.

The sad part is that they are not young men. Some of the guys I see around there are at least 30y/o. Shiftless, unemployed, babymaking, hyperaggressive young black men. And the women are just as bad.