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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The police claim that being on foot or on bikes limits their ability to respond quickly to emergency calls that may be a few blocks away.  The argument is BS of course - if you've seen a homicide response you know that every car in the precinct piles into the area and then 95% of the officers just stand around chatting, logging their "response" to the incident.   [/quote]

LOL - a poor guy out for a walk had a heart attack on my street two weeks ago and within minutes there were like 7 patrol cars on the scene and dozens of cops along with an ambulance and a fire truck.

All the cops stuck around for like 2 hours chatting with police tape up (the guy was on the sidewalk so it was unclear why they blocked an adjacent road that wasn't even blocked by the ambulance or fire truck) after the ambulance was long gone - not typing up a report or directing traffic just standing around in groups talking.  The fire truck left as soon as the ambulance did as if the Fireman actually had something to do but MPD - well why not hang around and look like you've actually got something important to do.[/quote]

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