Okay, time to stop crime...

By WicBury Crapper Board Member "CornLogsRule"....

Okay, its time to stop crime.

And we at the WicBury Crapper, of course, have all the answers!

First, lets just admit that crime is totally out of control. Lets ask this question. If your car broke down on Rt. 13 at North Blvd. would you feel comfortable walking down Smith Street to PMRC to make a phone call at 2AM? Probably not. Why? Because you might get hit over the head, shot, stabbed, robbed, raped, or hit over the head while being shot, raped, robbed and stabbed.

So, is this the fault of the police? No. So where does the blame lie? Well the blame lies with the Government because even though everyone wants a lower crime rate and to feel safe in their homes there is apparently no money out there for more police, better equipment, or even to retain current cops on the job (some departments are laying off cops).

Brings us to our next point.. Is education as important as safety? No. While your educators enjoyed an increase in pay and have been restrained from having their budget cuts your kids will be getting beaten, shot, stabbed, robbed and hit over the head for their lunch money OR hit by a car because they slashed the police department's crossing guards. How foolish is this?

In any society safety is of paramount concern to citizens. If you are not safe and there is not enough police protection and the courts fail and punishment fails you have what we have today. And we are on the precipice of a very slippery slope. Eventually, you have anarchy, which is what rampant crime is. Rampant violent crime is the inability of society to control itself from more heathen behaviors because there is a lack of law enforcement. Our jails and prisons are at an all time high in capacity. The U.S. houses five times more people in prison than the rest of the world, on average.

And to no surprise Salisbury is now, per capita, the second most violet city in the United States. How can this be?

Well, people are not afraid of going to jail. Jail is somewhat of an inconvenience for them. People don't like going to prison because they know they won't be out anytime soon. We warehouse people for the simple fact that we can't figure out whats wrong in our society to combat crime. This question has been plaguing mankind since the inception of societal rule.

Years ago crime was not as rampant due to several reasons. First, the moral fiber of society was much more conservative. Most people did not think it was a wise idea to cuss the police mainly because the police would break their teeth off. Therefore, people had a healthy respect and fear of law enforcement officers, as it should be. The move away from the authoritarian style of policing and more towards the community oriented policing has not solved crime, rather it has gotten much worse.

There was a limit on technology and thus communications. Communications is not always a good thing. For instance before movable type (the printing press) people generally got their news from other areas by word of mouth or written notices posted conspicuously. Even when people only had telephones in their homes the ability of the government to tap a criminals phone line was much easier, cheaper, and quicker. It is much, much easier to communicate when criminals have prepaid drop phones. "Blicka Blicka, where you at?" "Yo the polize is right aroun the corna yo."

Drugs are more accepted. Hey, its okay to use, sell, produce, smoke, shoot, or whatever drugs now. In fact, lets open up marijuana smoke shops around the country, oh wait, that's already happening, never mind. OH people are getting shot over drugs? Eh, it's only criminals who cares. OH a stray bullet shot someone in the leg in an apartment building (pemberton), well, they shouldn't have been living in a lower income area. Oh wait a second, that's a wrong way of thinking. Whoops! We have to give people nicer places with tax money so that the criminals will sell drugs somewhere else and thus get shot somewhere else! WTF?!

So we at the crapper of course have the solution to everything. Here's the solution, drum roll please... follow the following plan and we guarantee a rapid drop in the crime rate...

1. Untie the hands of the police. You want less crime, cops want less crime but it might take some muscle because criminals don't care about beating you in the head and taking your wallet so, cops just might have to beat a criminal or two in the head.

2. Initiate martial law for 30 days.

3. Equip the police with what the police need (i.e. rifles, shotguns, tasers, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers).

4. Drop serious criminals on an island saturated with drugs and weapons with no way of escaping (shark infested waters or gunships off shore) and wait. Kinda like escape from New York. Cheesy movie but what a great idea.

5. If that doesn't work drop a MOAB over the island and kill everyone dead.

6. Child molesters, murders, and armed robbers, oh yeah and rapist hang out front of the courthouse. "The hell with them fellas. Worms gotta eat the same as buzzards." - Clint Eastwood, Outlaw Josey Whales.

7. Prioritize law enforcement budgets over anything else. Well it's nice that your kids are learning trigonometry and are all smart and stuff but, who cares when someone is breaking into your house at 3AM?

8. Joint street level enforcement task force. And, when we mean task force, not like the "crime task force" where fatheads sit around and wonder why things aren't improving, we mean twenty huge cops from multiple jurisdictions, in vans rolling around jumping out on corner drug dealers several times a week, randomly. You will see a rapid decrease in street level sales.

The last time this happened people cried that it was racist because cops raided the Parry and Gates barbershop where there is an open air drug market. So, how about now allowing drug sales to go on in front of your barbershop? Their answer, well if you see someone selling drugs in front of the barbershop arrest them! Well, cops tried to do that and it was racist apperently.

9. All searches authorized of persons and vehicles with just RAS (reasonable articuable suspicion). If you are not carrying dope or guns we guess you have nothing to worry about right?

10. Replace failing government officials with officials FROM OUTSIDE OF THE AREA. ENOUGH OF THE "GOOD OLD BOYS NETWORK" IN POLITICS AROUND HERE. THATS WHY NOTHING EVER GETS DONE WITH ANYTHING. WHO'S DING-A-LING IS BIGGER??ENOUGH OF THE CHIEF AND THE MAYOR BICKERING OVER DUMB CRAP. ENOUGH OF DEPARTMENTS BUTTING HEADS TO WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE CRIME PROBLEMS. REPLACE EVERYONE WITH ALL NEW AND OUT OF COUNTY/STATE PEOPLE. NEW IDEAS. NEW PEOPLE.

11. Das Crapper for president.

12. Fleeing felons shot dead.

Questions/comments? Hmmmmm?

Take the handcuffs off the police...

By WicBury Crapper Board Member "DasCrapper"...

People wonder why the crime rate across the country is out of control?? Gee, we wonder why... Why are criminals so brazen in Salisbury to commit armed robberies of banks and other places? Why are citizens afraid to walk down the streets?

Lets see....
1) Police can not use force many times, even when appropriate to do so.
2) Civil liability
3) News coverage
4) Bad view of police by the community stemming from Rodney King incident
5) Politicians don't support the police
6) Video games depicting shooting and killing people and cops
7) Proliferation of gangster rappers as "cool" rapping about guns, drugs, murder, and murder of cops
8) Decaying moral fabric of Society
9) Lack of funding
10) Lack of aggressive policing due to above reasons

So here's our answer to all of these problems. Different departments and politicians can make threats and promises to combat crime.. but we have the answer to all of the issues. You want safety and security? We've got you covered...Of course, we may have to alter our consitution a little bit....

1. Take handcuffs off the police. Give the police tools and weapons needed to combat crime. Issue all officers tasers, shotguns, and rifles. Use force to combat crime because force is being used to combat society by criminals. Criminals don't care about your safety, why should you care about their safety from cops trying to protect your safety?
2. Suspend civil liability for police
3. Support the police even if a police action even if it doesn't look the best for you as a politician
4. Restrict video game sales of violent crime to adults only. Ban all video games depicting assaults on police. The problem was that twenty years ago or so our society had better morals so we had games like Duck Hunt and not games like vice city.
5. Lack of funding. So, you are cutting funding to public safety, which causes public safety to cut back on training, personnel, and weapons, and you are wondering why crime is getting worse? Hey, while we are at it, lets lay off some crossing guards.

Rules & Regulations... Ehch...

By WicBury Crapper board member "ThinBlueLog"...

As we all know society and police departments are made of up of rules and regulations. Most are required to keep things functional. Violation of rules and regulations (*ahem* laws) and people can face serious issues like going to jail or fines. But in the recent years rules and regulations and enforcement thereof of citizens, especially society rules, have been more and more lax while rules and regulations of the police have become more and more stringent.

This is a recipe for disaster for many reasons. Primarily, the police must have more authority over citizens than that of citizens over police. This is just a simple fact because once police are placed on the defensive, such as the case today, then police become hesitant to react in situations, if taking actions at all. It is clear in which way society is moving however, society either does not care of a segment of society is in power that resists enforcement of stricter laws of society (i.e. immigration laws and reform).

While it is clearly evident that this country has many, many, many, many issues we either lack the ability, balls, or motivation in order to effect widespread change. Society keeps moving in the direction of a freer, more open outlay rather than to reign in the "changes" that keep occurring moving society in the opposite direction of where it needs to be which results in an ultimate lack of control of the most free people in society, criminals.

Criminals don't care about laws that's why they are called criminals. So, a handgun carry law only applies to honest citizens who'd rather not get arrested for carrying weapons. But, as society becomes more and more open and thus dangerous, there is an increased risk of assault, robbery, etc forcing people to carry weapons when the police can't protect them due to the original argument of more laws and regulations over the police.

Sixty years ago, this was not a problem because society did not push against the limits of it's own rules until the 1960's came about. People knew that criminals were bad and gave law enforcement the authority and latitude to use the means required in order to combat these criminals (hence some federal agents had tommy guns).

So which way do you want it?

Murder at 1600

Well another murder in the city. So, how do we stem the tide of shootings and death, not only in the city, but in the country?

First we have a large problem with firearms, this is obvious. However, the problem is firearms have been flooded in the U.S. since the civil war. Therefore, any attempt to curtail people from carry weapons only effect law abiding citizens. So the police should be armed over and above what matches that of the criminals in society. Yet in many jurisdictions criminals outgun the police by carrying automatic or semi-automatic assault style rifles.

While many departments refrain from issuing rifles and shotguns to their staff because they feel that it presents a too aggressive image, many departments have started to issue these weapons in order to combat the rising violence of street crime.

Starting in the early 1990s there was a trend to scale back the aggressiveness of the police, in part because of high profile cases of alleged police abuse of civil rights. However, there is a sliding scale of civil rights. The ultimate impact of civil rights to the extreme is a lawless society however, the problem therein is that once lawlessness prevails then everyone's rights are curtailed by others, specifically criminals seeking to control the weak. This is apparent in jails and prisons across the nation. Ironically, although criminals reject the moral code of society, they adopt their own rules and regulations once in prisons with penalties far exceeding those imposed by society for similar transgressions against law and order. Do you really want weak police officers protecting you who fail or won't take action in a serious situation? When someone is breaking into your house at 3AM and you call the police, who would you rather respond, a meek, and frightened police officer or an aggressive one willing to risk their safety to protect yours?

So, what is the solution? The country and society in general must realize that they can't have it both ways. Either you have an orderly society, which requires a uniformed force to protect itself, or you have an anarchist society with a rapidly deteriorating moral code, such as we do today. We say we have all these problems yet we fail to do anything to combat them. Why do we continue to sell video games featuring murder and murder of police officers in stores? Why do we continue to have TV shows and videos that depict criminal activity? Because of freedom of speech?? When does one good outweigh the other good? Yet you can't yell fire in a crowded theater... because it incites a breach of the public peace...

A crackdown, nationwide, is needed to rapidly combat criminals. We need to start shifting our outlook to previous times with a higher moral, ethical, and criminal justice outcome.

Are we doing the right thing?

Sometimes in everyday life we have to ask ourselves if we are doing the right thing. The right thing is a constant question in every one's mind who has a sense of self and community. Is what you are doing or saying the right thing? Are you serving a greater purpose or are you just indulging yourself in what you are doing?

So, we ask you to sit down, take a moment out of your day, either on the crapper or else where, and ask yourself... Am I doing what is right and just today? Is this, in my brief time on this earth, what I want my existence to be about? Take a quiet minute alone, sit, and think for a moment on things and how you treat those around you, especially if you are a supervisor or administrator. Close your door, put the phone on DND and think for ten minutes. Do people benefit from what I do? Do I bring joy or misery to those around me? Am I helping my fellow man, brothers in blue, or hurting them?

The Crapper is existential and introspective this morning.

Stuff is all messed up...

How to fix crime problems - Part 6, Politics

One of the biggest issues plaguing this area is the politics involved in crime problems. Everyone wants to present a solution to the problem or at least appear like they are attempting to solve the problem and yet, very little problems get solved. On face value it appears that police from different agencies are working together to solve crime issues, at least at press conferences. However, the truth is there is very little communication within agencies about situations occurring or developing crime trends. Moreover, there is even less communication between agencies about progressive crime problems or how to combat them.

Generally speaking, the crime problem continues to be out of control. Armed robberies are still occurring. While some of these issues may be attributed to the economy there is still a lot of people that can find jobs so the necessity to commit an armed robbery for money is a poor excuse for a crime problem.

Departmental, interpersonal, and agency wide crime problems must be addressed and dealt with. The longer departments buck for the spotlight, refuse to share information, and fail to work together in order to resolve crime issues, the longer we are going to have an spike in crime and violent offenses.

How to fix crime problems - Part 5, Drug Enforcement

Lets face it, the drug enforcement in this area is woefully understaffed and undersold to the public. Unfortunately, the major portion of crime is generated by drug abuse. Drug users, who are constant addicts, commit burglaries and robberies in order to support their habit. No big news there. Hmmm so why don't we make drugs legal?

Stupid idea. Making drugs legal won't solve the problem because people are still hooked on drugs. That's why even though oxicodone and oxicotin is legal, people still steal it from others or brake into pharmacies that carry the stuff.

However, why do we have such a big drug problem? Easy, this place is a craphole, as we all know. But, unfortunately highway drug interdiction is not an adequate solution because, as the name sounds it enforces drug seizures on the highways. Route 13 passes through Salisbury so basically manpower is wasted on enforcing drug interdiction on drugs that are going through, not necessarily, into Salisbury or the county. The idea behind highway drug interdiction is seizing money and funds, which directly benefit the agency. A lot of cash runs through the bypass also. So, although making large drug seizures looks good for press releases, it really does nothing to fund further advances for the respective agencies.

In order to curb the high drug use and sale epidemic there has to be a large scale effort on arresting drug dealers, not drug users. Major and routine sweeps and buy/bust operations would dramatically decrease open air drug sales. This would cause the drug dealers to push their sales inside of their residences and who wants a crackhead in their house to buy drugs?

The WINTIF team needs about five times their current staffing level. There should be a street level "TNT" group added with enough officers, from multiple jurisdictions, to investigate and make large scale and routine arrests. Say about 25 members strong, give or take.

If you are going to pursue, lets be frank, monitary seizure on the bypass, then dedicate a team of six or more to the effort, not two. Or, not one with no dog.

How to Solve Crime Problems, Chapter 5

Drug Enforcement

Obviously there is a serious problem with drugs in Wicomico County and really all over the Eastern Shore of Maryland and the country. However we have not addressed many of these issues. Liberals would have you believe that drug abuse is a problem that is caused by society or to be more exact a differentiation between classes of society. Therefore, the only thing that people have to turn to is drugs. Bullshit.

While it may be very, very difficult to "rise from the hood" to a decent place in society there are plenty of people that reside in very bad areas of Salisbury that go to college and more power to them because those people are trying to better themselves. Even though they are using student aid loans, that is what the money is therefore and it is accessible by anyone to use. People can make the best of a situation or the worst of one (i.e. using/selling drugs). However, this still does little to address the problem.

First, we need to stem the flow of drugs into the Country and we have a feeling that a lot of drugs are coming in through container shipments from large shipping vessels. These containers can be short stacked to contain large quantities of drugs. With large ships caring thousands of containers per trip it is impossible to check each one for dangerous items. However, we have to start doing a better job of it. Put all the containers when off loading past drug dogs for a quick scan and flag them if drug odors are detected.

We have not seen a rapid increase in Meth production but it is happening and many law enforcement officers do not know how to effectively deal with it when it arrives full steam. This is a particular hazard due to the nature of the drug in it's production with explosive potential.

Within the county we have to do a better job of controlling street level distribution. Frequently we have seen open air drug markets such as on Delaware Ave, Church Street, Booth, West, Olivia, Smith, and many other areas within the city. Salisbury City Police used to have a "ZERO" squad where a team of officers would ride around and perform jump outs on suspected criminals establishing a "zero" tolerance policy. This was particularly effective yet not particularly attractive politically. However, a combined agency jump out team, or several of them, patrolling five random days a week, would rapidly put a stop to open air drug sales. We would also add undercover buys from task force. Of course to do all this agencies need manpower, proper weapons, several vehicles (rentals would do well) and ballistic protection.

Drug sales would suddenly recede into peoples houses. Drug dealers would be more reluctant to invite users into their residences on a daily basis to provide them with drugs or at the least it would remove the open air drug market environment with less people carrying weapons for protection against drug or cash robberies. The drug task force is also woefully understaffed for this drug saturated environment.

How to solve crime problems, Chapter Four

How to Solve Crime Problems (and make friends)

Chapter Four - Need For Local Legislative Action for Change

It's interesting how when driving up Route 13 or 50, specifically route 13 we see any number of "zombies" walking around all hours of the night, people standing on the street corners, and hookers working the local gas station and thrift travel inn. We see the same people walking around at three o'clock in the morning, walking from the Church Street area to the Thrift Travel then to Chesapeake Inn. What are these people doing? Where are these people going? Most of the people are either crack heads (we include the prostitutes) or crack dealers. The crack heads mostly wander around all hours of the night looking for their next hit of cocaine. The prostitutes walk around looking for johns so they can get their next hit of cocaine and the guys walking around who aren't looking for crack are either selling crack or watching the prostitutes (pimps).

And who wouldn't like a BJ from this lovely young lady? Well, shes no body from around these parts but as we know, they are seen all over Salisbury, specifically the Church Street area and other areas. If you look close, or far you can see her skull under her skin. Nice eh? Is this want you want to see walking around your city streets night after night. A walking zombie.

Typically your local drug dealer lives in the "inner city" (which most of Salisbury is) or the Booth Street/West Road/Reservation areas. They live in a shit hole, they're yard looks like shit with stuff strewn about, empty baggies littering the front yard, no grass, and a tricycle laying on it's side, with a Escalade with 20" rims parked out front (chrome rims). The rims, by the way, cost aboutt $1500.00 a piece. OR they will have a piece of shit crown Victoria (with spotlight) parked out front with the same 20" rims. The drug dealers don't work and are typically "disabled" on SSI and have "Attention Deficit Disorder" or some other type of pretend ailment that prevents them from being a productive member of society. Their housing is paid for by you, they pay about $15 a month. They get free food, which you also pay for (the Independence card) which they share and barder with (the crackheads use it as currency to buy drugs). They have a 50" plasma or projection television in their living room (rent a center) and a PS3 and XBOX 360 (both stolen in burglaries). They also have free health care. If they walk into any hospital, which can't refuse them service based on indecency, they get free health care, on your dime. They are also provided with a county health care card, also on your dime, which provides them with free health care. SO, obviously they have a lot of free time and money on their hands to deal drugs. Hence, drug dealers. Notice how the new neighborhood watch signs picture a guy wearing his hat backwards, covering his face with a mask.

Gangs

Anyone that says Salisbury doesn't have a gang problem is an idiot. Salisbury and the county have serious gang problems. The "bloods" have filtered down from whatever rock they've crawled out from under, and now have organized to sell drugs, rob people, and commit burglaries. Last week a group threw a chemical bomb into a residence which exploded! Also, have you noticed how many ghetto peoples are wearing red these days? We wish we had the patent on red clothing die because we'd be millionaires just like the gas stations selling white and black tee shirts three years ago. Red is the color that's in currently. Funny that all the armed robberies (or most of them) have been occurring with blue bandannas over their faces. But there is also a known crips problem so it could be some of those idiots also. Not everyone wearing red is a gang members of course. It's like a fashion trend almost. You get the gang members wearing red, then the kids are wearing red, now the old people are wearing red. Not all these people are gang members obviously, but they like wearing red because it's the "cool" thing to do to show alliance with their local street hoodlums.

So, what can we do to change these issues. Local legislative action. Although the local legislature (meaning the city and county government) can not enact laws over riding state laws they can enact laws enhancing or adding to state laws. Which is why almost every type of fighting knife and BB gun, air soft, etc. is illegal in ocean city and will get you arrested. This is because the local city legislature passed bans on these items. The legislature can also pass bans or moratoriums on specific types of businesses under zoning regulations such as porn shops and head shops (ocean city has done this as well). They can even ban specific types of pipes if the pipe is described accurately. They can ban anything really and make it a local arrestable offense.

So first a moratorium is needed on porn shops and head shops. Because come on, who the hell wants to ride up route 13 and see "SEX STYLE" right on the corner of Church Street. What a shit hole. Can we add anymore vice to this area? If these shops already exist local legislature can TAX THEM OUT OF EXISTENCE. Local legislator can pass laws making it a requirement that anyone selling obscene material or certain types of pipes pay $500,000.00 a year (or whatever). Business close. Then any other establishment that would want to open falls under the moratorium. Ahhhh haaaaa!

This also applies to our street walkers and zombies walking around. Local legislators can pass no loitering laws from dusk to dawn (or whenever) in specific areas, subject to immediate arrest.

Next Topic, Chapter 5, Drug enforcement!

How to Solve Crime Problems, Chapter 3

Okay so we've made it this far on how to solve crime problems. First, better communication between law enforcement agencies, second allow cops to be cops and to use force where force is needed. This brings us to Chapter 3..

Chapter 3 - Judicial System

Everyone knows that if you go to the wrong judges court room it's like watching puke colored paint dry. Sitting through a long and drawn out, whatever it is, on some crazy issue that could take five minutes to decide and solve. However, for whatever reason some judge want us to sit through their endless and mind numbing stories of nothing. Most of the time after a 30 min. endless speech on whatever, the suspect is given a PBJ. There is something seriously wrong with this. Judges like that should be removed from the bench to prevent a total collapse of our judicial system. When criminals know the judges are a joke who don't hand out time, just a no no, this creates a revolving door. These people should not be judge they should get a job as an insurance salesman somewhere. Get rid of these people and install judges that care and make fair decisions. These poor excuse for judicial officers are why the system has so many problems and why it takes time, after time, after time to get the case to court. If a suspect is given an advisory at the commissioners office, to get and attorney, why do we let him postpone the case to get an attorney? The suspect's dumb ass couldn't figure out to get an attorney? No, he knows. He knows that if he goes to court without an attorney he can play the system. Make it two more times and then request a jury trial and another postponement for a two months.

How about this new system. You are advised by the commissioner (as currently is) that you have the right to an attorney. First time case comes up, make a decision, either jury trial (if warranted) or heard in district court. No attorney, proceed today. Why do we allow criminals to schedule their cases because they "were busy" and could not get an attorney? What about thousands of man hours each year paid to cops that would rather be home doing something else on their day off? Why is preference given to accused criminals? We poop on them. You commit a capitol offense, death by hanging in front of the court house. Rape=death, armed robbery=death, murder=death. Better yet, remember that movie "The Running Man"...not a bad idea...Save taxpayers money on housing them and entertains the masses while deterring crime.

Juvenile Injustice

What a complete and total joke this system is. An arrest takes place for a felony charge ad they are released back to the parent, who is probably a felon themselves. The juvenile gets arrested ten more times for lets say, drug distribution, and they get released back to their parent again with a joke of a court to follow up with. The only juveniles that get (rarely) detained are the ones that essentially piss off someone who holds their keys, like the DJJ Officer or the Judge. Another revolving door system that MANUFACTURES criminals. By the time these criminals are 18 they know the system inside and out and know that it's a joke. What kind of a place are these juvenile homes? These places are also a joke. They house criminals but the staff can't do anything to correct their behaviors except for "moving them a step" like losing movie privilege for night. Give us a break. How about if these criminals are committing crimes or acting a fool, "one across the lip" (as fred sanford used to say)? This system needs to be totally erased and start from scratch. It's obviously broken, very broken.

If you put a criminal juvenile in a juvenile facility there should be no damn PlayStation's and Wii's laying around. Put them to work on a chain gang. If they don't listen to staff at a juvenile home, one across the lip. Still don't listen? One across the jaw. The behavior will change eventually. So, to fix the DJJ system, intake officer decides if the juvenile warrants detention or a smack upside his head. If detained, put to work immediately until trial. If found guilty, hard labor for sentence. Personally we like the whole public caning thing.

How to solve crime problems, Chapter 2

Accountability & Respect

One of the major issues of crime is that police officer these days are accountable for everything including what they do both on and off-duty. As police should be accountable for being above the line of the standard person. Therefore, yes cops are above other people. This crap philosophy of citizenry is equal to or somehow alike the police is ridiculous. Citizens feel that officers have to be angels of mercy. They want cops to protect them from the bad guys but if they take aggressive action, they are disciplined and even fired. Society can not have it's cake and eat it too. If you want to be a low crime society then Law Enforcement must be allowed to enforce laws, duh. Criminals don't care about laws or who they hurt or kill because they are criminals. Police officers have to worry about civil liability, camera phones, in car cameras, people recording them, being investigated internally and a whole host of other issues, not the least of which is getting killed on the road.

Law and Disorder

Police officers should be immune to law suits when performing their job function. Ever notice how people have no respect for the police, their elders or anything anymore? We wonder why that is... Well 25 years ago if you acted a fool with the police they would beat your head in and you respected them for that. Now there is so much civil liability and internal investigations that cops are afraid to take enforcement action of any kind. Picture left cop in Zimbabwe reasoning with suspect.

People, these are criminals and fools who you don't want breaking into your house, robbing you at gun point or shooting you in a store while you shop. But, yet we have people like Boykin writing negative articles about our law enforcement professionals to sell newspapers. Yet, we expect law enforcement to protect us. Please! Enough is enough. Lets rewind times back to the 1980's philosophy in law enforcement. The police are the police period. Let them do their jobs. If they have to wack some sense into some fool with a slap jack then more power to them. These criminals are not the innocent lambs that liberals would have you believe. Liberals want law enforcement to treat them with kid gloves, not hurt them or harass them, but yet want to feel protected inside their estates in the hills. As society continues to deteriorate things will only get exponentially worse. Time to take the handcuffs off law enforcement and authorize them to take care of business the right way. Getting sued is better then having one innocent citizen killed in the wake of these criminals. Poop on their heads. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN USING EXCESSIVE FORCE TO EFFECT AN ARREST ON A CITIZEN FOR A MINOR VIOLATION AND USING APPROPRIATE FORCE TO EFFECT AN ARREST ON A CRIMINAL AND DETER CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR FROM REOCCURRING OR OCCURRING IN THE FUTURE OR IN THE FIRST PLACE. Respect from fear is healthy for a society, from authority figures. While people should not fear the police in a call for help sense they should have a healthy respect for the police. If you were brought up the right way you knew if your dad or mom got upset with you, you may get a swat across your lip or a wack with the belt. Your healthy fear of authority deterred unwanted behaviors. But you still respected them because they didn't use excessive force (i.e. abusive force) to get their point across. So evidently this works.

So, issue slaps, PR 24's to all police. Issue long guns, bag guns, rocket launchers, and whatever else they need in order to combat this serious crime problem. Don't hold them civilly liable for use of force, if the person is a criminal or in commission of a crime. Poop on them. Or, continue to hold them liable and investigate their every action, but don't wonder why crime is getting exponentially worse every day and your house just got robbed. No explaining, no internals, you want safety? We've got your answers. Here a citizen is show a healthy respect for the riot police by saying in body language, "Hey I respect you, don't kick my ass".

Police haters would have you believe the police are like Gestapo. Give us a break. That's fine, suspend police for a day and see what happens to your lovely home and H3. We bet you'll see an escalate pull up with 20" rims, bought with your tax dollars by the way, four guys with blue bandannas get out, shoot you in the face, and take your wife's jewelry while shes tied up and raped in a hall closet. Cause, that's about the extent of what you got right now and we are slipping downhill fast. While we are at it, reinstate corporal punishment in schools and capital punishment in this state. Here's a great idea... with crime on the rise lets do away with capital punishment and house these animals for 50 years on your dime.

Time to take law enforcement's gloves off if you want a safe environment in this WICBURY CRAPPER.

How to solve crime problems, Chapter Uno

So how do we solve this crazy crime problem we have in the city AND the county? That's right, we have the answers! We can solve all the crime problems (not really) but we can damn sure kill most of them, just like putting poison down for rats! You heard it here first, we have all the answers! So Chapter one in our crime resolution plans for world domination, er to solve crime problems we mean.

Step 1 - Start doing organized police work, communication.

The fact that agencies don't share intelligence on a regular basis or work in conjunction with each other is complete smelly crap. Each agency likes to act independent of the others, except when there is a large scale problem and then they launch a night of 40 people working to solve an intermittent issue that needs to be prevented and controlled instead of swatted with 40 people on overtime assignment.

In order to organize police work effectively, we have to put our egos aside and sit down at a table and share information, daily. CID especially within agencies needs to work very closely with one another, in person or by video conferencing office to office. Communication should happen twice a day if possible, at the beginning of the day and at the end. There should be a summery sheet of current investigations and suspects e-mailed or faxed to the agency coordinator daily which would cut down on agencies investigating the same issues and would enhance a closer working relationship between agencies. CID must work much, much closer with patrol officers and be at roll calls, each roll call, daily or at least provide a summery of investigation status to roll calls. Being a detective is not only an honor, its a job. The ultimate goal is to arrest criminals.

Cut out the politics. Politics do nothing but hamper law enforcement from doing their job. Yes, this is a totally thankless profession. We are expected to act the best but deal with the worst and still act the best. We are expected to perform unreasonable requests, get yelled at about foolish issues that have no real consequence by administrations, read umpteen memorandums, e-mails, policies, procedures, and abide by unwritten or ever changing rules and regulations. The last thing we need is politics, which motivates much of the above, in law enforcement, but it is rampant. How about the politicians give us the money to operate effectively, stay out of our way, and we control crime and get results.

While we are at it, lets cut out egos. Administrative or supervisory egos have a terrible effect on moral and line officers performing at their peak performance. In fact, the more a line officer is mistreated, the worse he will do on the job because he adopts a passive aggressive attitude, which is his only means of fighting back. If the road officer is not screwing up, let him do his job and lock people up. If and when he screws up, then address the issue appropriately. Line officers with egos, lets get real. We are all cops, loose your 'tude. We don't care if you are CID, SWAT, or whatever, you aren't any better or have any other powers than anyone else on the road. Yeah, we know you are hot crap but really, who gives a crap. Shut up and get to work with the rest of us. Do you ever see your agency leader? Do they stop in at roll calls to talk to line personnel and assist them on the road? Do they handle calls for service along side you? If not, this is a problem because it creates a wide seperation between the ranks. Although they have an administrative job, they carry a badge and a gun like the rest of you.

All agencies should be operating on one radio system and digitally encoded. Each area of the county, especially the ones with independent cities such as Salisbury, Delmar, and Fruitland should have their own operational channel with one main channel. Communications needs to be upgraded dramatically, including dispatchers. Dispatchers are a vital component of the incident response system and should have double the current staff. They must be knowledgeable and trained to do their job and effectively handle the stress of dealing with the public and the officers on a daily basis. Attitude problems amongst dispatchers in some agencies is rampant and this does nothing but slow response times and delay vital communications that could result in the injury or death of a citizen or officer. For some reason either supervisors or administration are reluctant to address these problems with attitudes. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix in this issue except to pay dispatchers more and to retain qualified dispatchers and terminate lackadaisical dispatchers and to invest in training in these people.

Off-duty officers from all agencies should have a dinner or "social" once a month, where for about 30 min, someone who is well liked by all, a line officer or line supervisor, addresses the crowd with the months highlights and mentions who is doing a good job in each agency. Further, become involved in your local Fraternal Order of Police Lodges. Some lodges have more "teeth" than others and this is because of a serious lack of cohesion between members. You must attend meetings in order to change anything; there is strength in numbers. A strong FOP with a large attending membership is much stronger than a weak FOP with no one in attendance. This sends a message to administration that you are divided and can not even make the effort to go to a meeting to resolve issues that concern you directly.

Moral and "the thin blue line" is a very important factor in police work that is lacking in this area and most of the Eastern Shore. We as law enforcement tend to be at each other's throats a lot and talk about each other behind each others backs. Granted, there are cops that shouldn't be cops and they're are cops that are stupid or want to hump your wife however, these are all individual internal personnel issues. As a whole multi-agency personnel must do a better job in becoming more fluid and much more protective of each other. Regardless of which agency you work for, doesn't matter, we all do the same job.