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(Their slogan: "you may as well be calling the MOON!")
Meister reports on a new blog-- Baltimore John Watch!
... for more on Internet john-watching, see this Wired article
(Now that William Brown is in jail, are the prostitute killings going to stop?)
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From Fred Bealefeld, a new variety of policing: self-serve.
"These people are prepared to take care of their own community, and what you really need is communities taking care of communities."
OK, so, we're going to lay off all the cops, strap on six-shooters, and receive a full refund of our taxes, yes ???
No. What he has in mind is that the City collects a higher tax rate than most other cities in the country, hires no cops, hands the money out in grants to nonprofits, and then expects citizens to police the streets for ourselves with absolutely no legal authority.
Gotcha.
maybe said communities are defining "take care of" differently.
"No. What he has in mind is that the City collects a higher tax rate than most other cities in the country, hires no cops, hands the money out in grants to nonprofits, and then expects citizens to police the streets for ourselves with absolutely no legal authority."
Also, don't forget - when you do police the streets for yourselves, he expects the State's Attorney's office to pursue you criminally as if you were a petty thug.
But that doesn't matter, so long as the major constituency of the city that makes the voting decisions is kept satisfied by not locking up anyone's baby (or baby's daddy, as the case may be).
Perhaps we shouldn't get out the vote, but instead should get the (dumb) voters out?
I like the idea of self-serve policing. Does this mean I can carry the Sig down the street with me with Fred Bealefeld's permission? 'Cause if I have to act like a cop, I want all of the accoutrements that go with the job. Oh, a big-ass billyclub...and some handcuffs...oh wait, I already have those. :: giggle ::
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