Marx Is Still The Best
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 5/9/08 @ 12:43 am - Filed Under Local Politics
I’ve said it before but I want to reiterate, Phil Marx’s My Hud House is the best blog running. As pointed out by Fort Wayne Observed, today’s post is fantastic. Here’s an excerpt:
At nine in the evening, I called FWPD. I identified myself, gave my address, then said this “Could you send a car through the area when you get a chance. The guys on the corner have been there all day and they’re getting pretty noisy. This is not an emergency, just please send one of your cars through when you get a chance and that will probably quiet them down.”
The operator’s response was to ask “Is that all they’re doing, being noisy?” I interrupted the operator and said “Listen, I hope you’re recording this, because I want to make this very clear. These guys are running an open-air drug market here. You know it, all the police know it, and everyone in this neighborhood knows it. When I call to tell you the guys on the corner are getting too noisy, I expect you to send a car to check on it.”
This really pissed me off. I shouldn’t have to police the drug dealers here myself. That’s what I pay FWPD to do.
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Let us move Phil to say some place out in the burbs of Allen County. We have a current sheriff running for a second term and a person running against them…. Do you think the current sheriff would let this go on? Or do you think the current sheriff would have officers all over the place to clean it up?
THAT IS WHY I SUPPORT ELECTING THE TOP COP. THAT IS WHY I ALSO SUPPORT THE TOP COP RUNNING THE 911 SYSTEM! AN APPOINTED POLICE CHIEF ONLY ANSWERS TO THE MAYOR AND NOT THE VOTERS. I REST MY CASE!!!!
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