Tuesday, June 14, 2005
At least he was wearing his seat belt and driving the speed limit while he drove to the house to murder and rob the family who lived there
This annoys me. I don’t know who’s behind it, but it is a sign that the inmates are running the asylum.
After Memorial Day, Prom weekend, and other holidays, the news folks always display the results of the proud accomplishments of the state line’s finest. You see, they gave away like 4 seat belt tickets, and a couple no insurance tickets, and a few speeding tickets. All of this thanks to roadblocks. Yeah, they don’t go look for crime, they wait for it to come to them. Yippee fucking skip. Who cares about those statistics?
Is it right to speed? No. Should you wear your seat belt? Yes. But people who don’t wear their seatbelts will still not wear their seatbelts after the tickets. People who speed will continue to speed.
And these precious roadblocks didn’t stop the two drag racers from committing vehicular manslaughter a couple weeks ago on Riverside.
And those roadblocks did nothing to stop the 10 murders we’ve had in our city already this year. If you want to talk statistics, let’s talk statistics.
10 murderers! We’re a tiny city. I can walk across the whole downtown in no time and I’m lazy! 10 Murders. And those are just the successful murders. There’s a hell of a lot more violence and theft in general in this town.
Why are the police annoying and fining otherwise decent people who commit these minor offences? Take the cops off of the roadblock duty and have them concentrate on the fact that we’re the crime capitol of Il, or that our homicide rate keeps going up.
If they took those checkpoints away, wild anarchy would not sweep through the streets. I can’t imagine why they have focused on screwing with normal people instead of actually getting in there and deterring criminals.
They make the proclamation that police will be cracking down on seat belts. Great! Do that…after we’re not the crime capitol and murder capitol of IL.
I’ve met a lot of cops downtown, and every one of them seems like a good person. I don’t want to put words in their mouths, but I think they may like a little more support with actual crime. And the police actually manning the roadblocks have to be thinking, “What the heck am I doing here? I could be actually helping.”
After Memorial Day, Prom weekend, and other holidays, the news folks always display the results of the proud accomplishments of the state line’s finest. You see, they gave away like 4 seat belt tickets, and a couple no insurance tickets, and a few speeding tickets. All of this thanks to roadblocks. Yeah, they don’t go look for crime, they wait for it to come to them. Yippee fucking skip. Who cares about those statistics?
Is it right to speed? No. Should you wear your seat belt? Yes. But people who don’t wear their seatbelts will still not wear their seatbelts after the tickets. People who speed will continue to speed.
And these precious roadblocks didn’t stop the two drag racers from committing vehicular manslaughter a couple weeks ago on Riverside.
And those roadblocks did nothing to stop the 10 murders we’ve had in our city already this year. If you want to talk statistics, let’s talk statistics.
10 murderers! We’re a tiny city. I can walk across the whole downtown in no time and I’m lazy! 10 Murders. And those are just the successful murders. There’s a hell of a lot more violence and theft in general in this town.
Why are the police annoying and fining otherwise decent people who commit these minor offences? Take the cops off of the roadblock duty and have them concentrate on the fact that we’re the crime capitol of Il, or that our homicide rate keeps going up.
If they took those checkpoints away, wild anarchy would not sweep through the streets. I can’t imagine why they have focused on screwing with normal people instead of actually getting in there and deterring criminals.
They make the proclamation that police will be cracking down on seat belts. Great! Do that…after we’re not the crime capitol and murder capitol of IL.
I’ve met a lot of cops downtown, and every one of them seems like a good person. I don’t want to put words in their mouths, but I think they may like a little more support with actual crime. And the police actually manning the roadblocks have to be thinking, “What the heck am I doing here? I could be actually helping.”
// posted by Tim @ 12:43 PM 
