08-25-2010, 12:22 PM
Well Frank,
They apparently think so now, there was an officer posted in front of the building last night for pretty much the whole shift. A little too late don't you think. You don't have to have an officer sitting there 24/7, but you reduce the chances of something like this happening if there were more patrols a little more often. But when people see that no patrol cars drive by for most of the night even after a stabbing, they do feel that they can come back and shoot someone. Police are reactive, when you're short handed, and gang units and NET units if run properly can be proactive, actually they are much more proactive seeing that they don't have to answer calls. No excuses on this one, the failure of the city's management and penny pintching mayor just cost this mother her life.................hey but I bet he saved the city about $500 somewhere along the line. And yes the gang members do care if there is a proactive gang unit or NET unit, they know when they are out there. And when the gang members figure out when the gang unit is working, then you might have to change things up and throw them off guard by changing hours or days off. If gang members are out all hours of the night then the gang unit needs to be out at all hours of the night, being reactive, proactive is all about taking care of buisness out there, no one ever said that gang unit or NET unit is a Monday-Friday job. But when you have someone in charge that can't seem to figure that out, then you find someone who can. And getting rid of the gang unit or NET unit is surley not the answer.
They apparently think so now, there was an officer posted in front of the building last night for pretty much the whole shift. A little too late don't you think. You don't have to have an officer sitting there 24/7, but you reduce the chances of something like this happening if there were more patrols a little more often. But when people see that no patrol cars drive by for most of the night even after a stabbing, they do feel that they can come back and shoot someone. Police are reactive, when you're short handed, and gang units and NET units if run properly can be proactive, actually they are much more proactive seeing that they don't have to answer calls. No excuses on this one, the failure of the city's management and penny pintching mayor just cost this mother her life.................hey but I bet he saved the city about $500 somewhere along the line. And yes the gang members do care if there is a proactive gang unit or NET unit, they know when they are out there. And when the gang members figure out when the gang unit is working, then you might have to change things up and throw them off guard by changing hours or days off. If gang members are out all hours of the night then the gang unit needs to be out at all hours of the night, being reactive, proactive is all about taking care of buisness out there, no one ever said that gang unit or NET unit is a Monday-Friday job. But when you have someone in charge that can't seem to figure that out, then you find someone who can. And getting rid of the gang unit or NET unit is surley not the answer.