Dyna The Command center is staffed any time it's on the street, and has been all week end you can tour it just knock on the door. If it's not on the street it's just parked in a parking lot. This was not purchased just for this purpose. Joan THom Hawthorne
Another grand example of the failure of "law enforcement by remote control" is MPD's new blue bus. It's been parked for a couple days now a block from my most humble home in the 'hood, but it only took about a day for the local criminals to figure out that the lights were on but no cops were home. Sure enough, yesterday morning a carload from the 'burbs was enjoying their crack in a blind spot of the less than block away blue bus. Later that day a car was stolen from nearly the same spot. The moral here is that there's no point in our city buying pricey toys- "mobile command units" run upwards of $100,000- unless we have the officers to staff them. Consider also that an unstaffed "Mobile Command Unit" is a tempting target for gangbangers- whoever steals or torches the blue bus will gain considerable street cred... So if we can't staff it let's sell it and use the proceeds to put some officers on the street! Dyna Sluyter REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
