primitives discuss law-enforcement protection for George Bush

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3958944

Oh my.

sabra  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:15 PM
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Dallas police cut extra protection at George W. Bush's home 

The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on the street outside the president’s home. The estimated cost of that service was $300,000 for about a year, according to police officials who asked that they not be named.

“We just had to cut it,” said one police official, who agreed to speak on the condition on anonymity. “We’re about to lay off people.”

Police officials said that they had been already gradually reducing extra security provided for the former president even before the city’s fiscal crunch. The cuts to the president’s security detail were first reported by KTVT-TV on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localn...

I suspect this was just so much fluff, the Dallas police protecting a guy already protected by the Secret Service, and it's time to cut the fluff.

First up at bat, the mean-spirited warped primitive, whose inadvertent revelations about her current situation have raised some red flags:

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:16 PM
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1. Now he'll have to hire a bunch of Blackwater goons to pick all the shoes up off his lawn every morning.

I have to love stuff like that.

Egnever (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-08-09 01:18 PM
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2. I am glad they cut it but how does it cost 300k for one person?

alsame  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-08-09 01:19 PM
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4. I think it's 3 people, each doing one 8 hour shift.

Downwinder (562 posts)      Wed Jul-08-09 01:31 PM
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10. Plus without Single Payer Insurance the City has to cover Health Care costs.

Oak2004  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:31 PM
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11. One per eight hour shift = 4 or 5 guys/week 

I like that the Bush Depression is going to bite its overseer, albeit in a small way for a member of the nonproductive rich.

RaleighNCDUer  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-08-09 02:49 PM
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25. 24 hr coverage @ $35/hr = $306,000/yr.

$35/hr is pretty damn good pay. Maybe that included the amount they have to pay someone else to do real police work at the same time - 1 as Bushguard, and 1 to do Bushguard's job as a policeman.

POAS (1000+ posts)      Wed Jul-08-09 03:12 PM
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27. Your not considering costs other than salary.

Salary plus benefits is certainly the major part of those cost estimates but there is also the cost of the vehicle in terms of maintenance and fuel.

Also, an 8 hour shift is actually longer than 8 hours for each officer involved. They have travel time to and from the detail plus time needed to write and file shift and/or incident reports.

Lone_Star_Dem  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:18 PM
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3. He created the mess we're all in. It's only fair he should have to pay for his extra protection 

Not that I expect it will hurt his pocketbook all that much.

SpiralHawk  (1000+ posts)     Wed Jul-08-09 01:20 PM
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5. Starve the Beast

Apply 'conservative' republion economic principles to xCommander AWOL Bush's lair and the protection thereof. He is most deserving...

Beetwasher  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:22 PM
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7. He Doesn't Really Need Any Protection Anymore Anyway

Nobody wants to hurt him, we all just want to pretend he never existed in the first place.

FLyellowdog  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jul-08-09 01:32 PM
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12. My thoughts exactly. "W" who?

The formica primitive, the one who's nuts, the one the CIA wants to do in:

formercia  (1000+ posts)       Wed Jul-08-09 01:25 PM
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8. The SWAT team just inflates his ego.

Like he's still 'important.'

The above's about half the bonfire; the rest is just as Hate-filled.

[thundley4]

I saw that earlier, but I wonder why there was any police necessary.  President Bush lives in a gated community.  The only thing I can think of is that the added officer was used to direct traffic near the gate and to keep moonbats away.

[Doc Savage]

Figure that the Dallas PD thought that the streets outside the gate would start looking like the road outside of Crawford.  Just a little precaution.

[AllosaursRus]

Figure that the Dallas PD thought that the streets outside the gate would start looking like the road outside of Crawford.  Just a little precaution.

Exactly! probly not so much for W's protection as it was to keep idiots away from the community. Ah'm pretty sure W can protect himself to a certain degree, anyway. He just strikes me as a man who has a pistole in the night stand.