http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4905983Oh my.
lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-24-09 11:10 PM
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Has police force been cut back in your neck of the woods?
Just heard a guy on CNN (I think they said he was retired FBI) say that the local police force of Atlanta had been cut 20%. (I think he said Atlanta)
Don't forget, anybody--we got the
LONESTARNUT/HUNGER WATCH going on right now, although it's a little early yet, and it goes on for four years--chronicling hunger in the
0bamareich as complained by the primitives; and if one spots a fat primitive whining of hunger through January 20, 2013, it's worth $5 from my wallet to conservativecave.
It's another big bonfire, so only the Primitives of Prominence.
First up, the dysmenopausal Kansas school teacher:
proud2Blib (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-24-09 11:11 PM
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1. Yes
Clinton poured money into law enforcement. Bush cut the funding.
One of the rare tolerable primitives:
Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Sat Jan-24-09 11:21 PM
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4. Not here!
We ALWAYS have a total of four officers on duty at any one time
(little ag town in middle of San Joaquin Valley)
And then the grouchy old primitive, commenting on a comment by an
unterprimitiven that he needs to carry guns to guard against snakes on his exclusive desert-front real-estate:
NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-25-09 07:33 AM
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30. You carry a gun for snakes?
Worried they are going to chase you down and bite ya?
Your joking right?
Wouldn't it be easier to just walk away from them?
The methamphetimine primitive from southern Mississippi:
merh (1000+ posts) Sun Jan-25-09 12:09 AM
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16. That was one of the things the GWB admin did - it cut the community policing grants so that local law enforcement couldn't afford new hires. It replaced the community policing grants with terrorism grants so that LEO could buy weapons (e.g. tasers), equipment and have anti-terrorism training and those monies went to private corps that supplied and/or trained the LEO in anti-terrorism tactics.
Oh, the tax cuts meant less money to the state and local governments and that resulted in higher local/state taxes and cuts to schools and LEO, if folks retired or left for other jobs they slots were not always filled due to lack of adequate funding.
And of course there is a percentage of the LEO force that were weekend guardsmen that became active duty warriors thanks to GWB's wars.
That's all the Primitives of Prominence at this bonfire.