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Dec

21

Police crackdown on, uh, murder

122105sly.jpg Yesterday, police commissioner Sylvester Johnson announced his plan to rid the city of crime, or at least cut down on all the murders. As usual, the four points of this major plan seem like a good idea, but the one maybe could have been done before (emphasis mine):

• More aggressive serving of outstanding warrants.

• Detectives will actually be out on the street patrolling after major crimes.
• More manpower on duty into the wee hours of the morning.
• And a major crackdown on curfews for minors on warrants.

Okay. I don’t know much about police work. But cops don’t patrol around the area after a crime was committed? Doesn’t that make sense? Are cops legitimately too busy? Seriously, I have no idea. But it seems (to me) that this plan probably should have been put into action, oh, say, sometime before the 370+ murders so far this year? Just a thought.

Sylvester Johnson Outlines Plan to Combat Crime [6 ABC]
 
dmac | 9:02 AM | 2 Comments
Crime, Murder, Police, Sylvester Johnson
 
  1. cmf Says: Dec 21 9:31 AM

    “• Detectives will actually be out on the street patrolling after major crimes.”

    i’m pretty sure this has to do with the distinction between officers on patrol and detectives. detectives do the “thinking” behind solving crimes and not the type of foot or car patrol that lower-ranked officers do

    but maybe you were just being sarcastic anyway!

  2. Chris Says: Dec 21 2:48 PM

    Timoney was a pretty iffy guy with ethics, but he got the job done…Johnson just seems over his head with this job.

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