I thought of writing a little something about Romneyâs offer of state troopers to the City of Boston, but then I conceded to myself that it would be too much work to explain why it sucks.
But then this. A state trooper and Boston cop in fist-a-cuffs. How perfect.
These kids cannot play together. Why? Probably because state troopers are glorified traffic cops who feel superior to most other police officers and departments in the state. Except Boston Police. Ernie laughed out loud upon reading the fight resulted from the state trooper trying to tell a Boston guy how to direct traffic.
These guys are great when we need speeding tickets written and drunk drivers arrested. But when a trooper walks into Roxbury District Court or Dorchester District Court with his Barney Fife case, and sits and listens to other criminal cases being heard as he waits for his appeal of a speeding ticket, he learns right away how much experience he does not have, or will never get. This is true for Chelsea Lynn, Lawrence, Springfield, etc.
So Romney wants to send these fashionably attired troopers down Blue Hill Ave. through the side streets, into the projects, and any where else crime needs a cure.
Hey Mitt, I didnât know we had a surplus of state troopers. You solved the crime problem in MA, have you? So now you can spare troopers to spread your good word.
Take Latin.
Worth at least 150 points on SATS.
Ernie did not take Latin.
Ernie wished he did.
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Oh, and ‘Say No to Drugs’ and ‘Be Cool. Stay in School’.
I think it means something like “Who polices the police?”
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Bob?
that’s what it means.
(roughly translated)
a 3? c’mon.
I actually found it pretty funny. I just wanted to bust your chops over your referring to yourself in the third person! 🙂
have a 5 to make up for it! 🙂
….Isn’t it a good idea to have state troopers in Boston all summer – perhaps in Back Bay etc – freeing up Boston cops to patrol Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Roxbury – make more weapons arrests, create more visibility for deterrence?
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Also, couldn’t we abandon all paid police “Construction Detail” duty (do any other states have this?) for the summertime, and instead get the contractors to donate their forced “details” to the rough neighborhoods for extra patrols?
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I work at a school and one of our kids just buried her brother yesterday (the Somali one on the front page of the Globe today). Shootings are almost double over last year. All Mitt v. Menino posturing aside, can’t someone lead here?