08-25-2010, 09:46 AM
It's just the sign of the times and it's only going to get worse, much worse. Gang activity is going to rise because it's only a matter of time before the gang bangers are going to find out that we will no longer have a gang unit or NET unit. Chief Greathouse finds it necessary to cut back on the speacial units to "beef up" patrol, the only problem is that you can't do that when the police force is already down 30+ officers with a possiblity of losing 18-20 more in the near future. I'm sorry but Chief Yancey might have had a problem with his personal life but Chief Greathouse just has a problem. He has said that his concern is the citizens of this city, which is all fine, but when you are all for cutting your police department down your not showing much concern for your citizens. Chief Greathouse is not a policeman, he has not been a policeman since he was promoted 15 years ago. That's the problem with this system, that the Mayor continues to apply, nothing will ever change, and in the long run, citizens will pay. Just ask the family of the victim in this shooting, ask them if they feel that they had enough police protection on that block, when you are short police officers you are not going to have many patrols come though your neighborhood, and in turn things will get out of hand. Chief Greathouse and our city managment were partially responsible for this tragedy, maybe now the eyes will open, come election time we need to ask ourselves if we want to continue to live like this or do we want a better life. If so, then we need to find a Mayor that's concerned to the well being of the citizens and that starts with him and works it's way down to the department heads. We need a mayor that will place the right people in charge, people that are far more experienced than those that have been in these positions in the past. We don't need people who want to be politicians we police officers to be chiefs, we need fire chiefs that are firemen. And we need the politicians to stay politicians and leave the police and fire work to the policemen and firemen.