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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently MoCo Police refused to come to the store. CVS employees were still waiting for 45 minutes, as “no units available.”

WTF is happening with the police that they had more pressing business?[/quote]

Like most local governments around here, MoCo government has been captured by soft-on-crime zealots. Not going to change anytime soon, and this is the result.  Brazen crime tolerated, I’d say affirmatively welcomed, by the authorities in formerly safe areas.  Watch your back, everyone.  [b]No one is coming to stop this, and it’s only going to get worse.[/b][/quote]

If this is true, then what are police doing while they are at work & collecting a paycheck?
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Police have largely adopted a "clean up crew" mentality. They have less interest in dealing with criminals these days. The criminals are more brazen, more mentally ill and on stronger drugs than ever before putting them at a greater risk than ever before. Meanwhile, you'll have a dozen people filming their every interaction looking for a social media gotcha with firing and jail time possible. Then even when they do arrest people, they are back on the streets in a day.

So what is even the point? [/quote]

In other words, police are getting paid to do nothing because they hate the fact that they have to be held accountable for their conduct.

Btw how many police officers in Montgomery County have gotten fired or gone to jail for misconduct on the job? I'll wait.[/quote]

The unfortunate reality is that policing doesn't work when its done in a way that is above reproach. Not enough people are willing to engage in risky encounters on the daily when the things can go wrong for them so many ways.

Its easy to criticize the police, but no one here is going to leave a cushy office job to show them how its done right. How many people here could keep their cool after they've been punched/spit on/bit and suddenly they've got hands in their pockets? Now add 10 people surrounding you with phones and jawing at you. No one wants to deal with that. [/quote]

You're acting like the standard that people are expecting of police is really high, when in fact folks just want police to stop harassing and killing innocent people. These incidents are not cases of police being harassed and then losing their cool. Don't be so disrespectful.[/quote]

The type of people that can walk the beat, keep their cool and not get themselves shot in the process won't do police work in any great number. So you get what you can get for the low pay and high risk. None of the "do better" posters around here will leave cushy office jobs to show them how its done.  So you either deal with a police force that hangs back, or a police force that's going to go too far now and then. Pick your poison.[/quote]

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