[fabsroman]

TBO,

Let me sum it up this way, if there are three LEO's sitting at a donut shop doing nothing, then fine, send them to the scene. I still believe that society would be better served if two of those LEO's were enforcing moving violations and such.

I guess my feelings about wasted police resources stems from several things.

1) We had a pretty good accident out in front of my place the other day that essentially closed down the street for over an hour. A 4 way stop sign had been put in here right before we moved in a year ago, and I almost got T-boned by a girl that never saw the thing. I almost pulled out in front of her, and then figured out that she wasn't going to stop. She actually saw the stop sign, locked up the brakes, and had them locked as she proceeded through the stop sign.

In the year I have lived here, I have seen one officer at the intersection and he was giving out tickets for seat belt violations only because he was standing in the middle of the intersection hiding behind the stop sign.

The morning of the accident, I saw an officer pull into the development right in front of me and pull behind some bushes. I was dying to see him pull somebody over for running the stop sign, but after waiting less than 5 minutes to catch somebody, he just took off. The accident occurred the next day. I have no idea where he went.

2) Last summer, about this time, my brother was at a Pho soup place (i.e., a Vietnamese noodle house) and a crazy guy threw a Pho bowl across the restaurant at my brother and struck him in the head. The bowl cracked, cut his head, and cut his forearm, both of which required stitches. My brother stumbled out of the restaurant dazed, confused, and frightened for his life as this man was yelling at him about how the white me took everything away from him. All my brother could do was sit on the curb and try to regain his senses while he stopped the bleeding. A man came up to him and asked him what happened. My brother explained it to him, and the man asked my brother if my brother wanted him to take care of the situation? My brother said no thank you. About this time, an ambulance pulled up on the scene and waited across the street for the police to arrive and watched my brother bleed. At this time, the crazy guy came out and tried to leave. His car had new car tags on it, so my brother ripped the front tag off, and gave it to the police when they finally showed up.

What I would hate to find out is that the police responded so slowly to the call because they had sent 3 LEO's to a school yard for a rock assault. If a rock assault deserved 3 LEO's, so did a Pho bowl assault. Granted, the story didn't occur here or I would really be pissed. I guess you have to live in the area to know whether police response is usually that good or not. If the police department could continually afford to send 3 officer to every minor assault incident, there had better be no aggressive driving and no lack of response to any other incident in the area.

In the end, I still believe that the resources could have been used better elsewhere.