Saturday, April 26, 2008

Fly onThe Wall Says.......

Well we now have a sixth mobile precinct. I hope that the citizens of DeKalb look at this program as just another waste of government. We take a $300,000.00 motor home and park it somewhere and it has DeKalb Police written on its side. And this will make persons wanting to commit crime run in fear? The real truth is we have a motor home parked and we assign an officer to guard the vehicle, so no one will vandalize to this “crime stopper”. The area is then flooded with police officers and laws are enforced. The motor home is not a reporting place and suspects are not interviewed in it.
It's parked at a location and we now have a $300,000.00 luxury motor home in the area. It has heated marble floors, granite counters, and the bedroom includes a sleep number bed, mirrored ceilings and LCD TV. The officers are not allowed to use the bathroom on board. Do you not get the point of this statement?
We can send a number of police officers into any area and enforce the law, and guess what; we do not need a $300,000.00 motor home to do the job.
Since one commissioner asked for details on this motor home adventure, everyone is scrambling to put together the great accomplishments. All that is done is officers are sent into an area to enforce the law without exception; the motor homes did not make the difference. Surely the Commissioners are not foolish enough to believe these RV’s are the solution to crime.
I wonder why they approved another motor home. It's just like take home cars, gas at an all time high and TeBo wants to give everyone a car. There are more DeKalb Police cars being driven around in other counties than in DeKalb.
They should look at making DeKalb Police cars only assigned to officers living in DeKalb County. I could be wrong but, is the concept of “Mobile Precincts” ($300,000.00 luxury motor homes) the latest technology to prevent crime?
The officers who work for DeKalb want leadership and a direction. We do not need a part-time Chief who fly's to Dallas every week to visit his family. The people he leaves in place are nice but are they qualified to handle a crisis?
I guess I don't understand how a Sergeant is promoted to Deputy Chief and then Chief and then he is fired, but Vernon hires him. I guess its politics.

1 comment:

stanley said...

We have had 40 murders already this year. Violent crime is way up and property crimes are off the chart in this county. For the life of me, I can not understand why Terrell Bolton just continues to buy these expensive and completely USELESS recreational vehicles. Is this the only answer he has to a very serious problem?
The ship is sinking while Bolton and his command staff are playing violins and painting rosy pictures of progress. If you do not know what you are doing, you should just do the honorable thing and QUIT! Complete incompetence at the position of police chief in a large police department is DANGEROUS. This is not Starbucks or Burger King where incompetent management can only lead to the loss of money. The citizens of this county or any jurisdiction depend on the police department for protection, not money.
The photos of the recreational vehicles are accurate. The inside of the DeKalb police vehicles are really furnished in this lavish manner. What could this possibly have to do with police work or fighting crime? To the candidates for C.E.O…..Are you seeing this?