Police
We hire, train, and deploy police for one objective: safety. ... every response we get when we protest violence [by police officers] is that the officer was worried about his/her safety.
WM: We are really in a way bigger hum if we think that one precludes the other. At the end of the day the desired outcome is that everyone return to home--or jail in some cases--unharmed. That includes tourists who stop in for a day as well as those of us here 24/7/365 and the police.
Their safety is not their job.
WM: I do not think that is at all true. Their safety is their job as is our safety. Police departments are an expensive proposition no matter how we crunch the numbers. It behooves them to keep themselves in good order and healthy once we've got them trained and experienced.
I don't send my tax dollars in to make anyone on the police force feel "safe". It is my safety that my dollars are supposed to buy. And when they act the way they have acted, they actually cause me to feel LESS safe. And that means I'm being ripped off. And some here call that a fair deal. But I call it one more case of the social contract being breached. So, naturally, I want something done about it, and I expect my elected officials to be more concerned about ME than about its employees.
WM: There are two issues here: one is expectations of one's council member. I'm pretty certain my council member has sense enough to consider everyone's safety. I think the other 12 council members can see that as well.
The second issue is how tax money gets spent. I think you're outta luck here, Jim. The city's first three jobs are fire, police, and public works. If you live anywhere in this country, you're gonna pay for at least two of those. (I hear that some areas still have volunteer fire departments.) In any city, you pay all three.
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