Neighborhood fires cops, hires private security

[naynay]

So if I'm reading this correctly, not a single one of you even knows what is going on in this story.

[Forever_frost]

Chances are the one doing most of the burglaries was arrested by another town or city or picked up on drug charges ect. They didn't relocate because of these guys. The area dropped 9 burglaries a month. That is one guy. I wouldn't pay for security or off duty officers. Id just hire Forever Frost to sit in a lawn chair on my lawn with a shotty.

I'm sure we can work out something.

[Forever_frost]

Foot patrol is great, if you have the manpower for it. And your "beat" is tiny and densely populated.

For instance, my normal beat is roughly 4-5 square miles. Granted it is one of the largest beats in the city. But you can see that would be impossible to cover on foot. Call load also comes into the picture. Unless you want to designate the foot patrols as non call takers. Which only puts more load on all the other guys working.

Or, you could pull the guys writing tickets for no plates or 5 over and put them on foot patrol. Afterall, if they have the free time to sit on the side of the highway with a radar gun, they have the time to walk a neighborhood

[Denny]

I've heard of county areas paying extra for a close municipality to cover their area instead of the county agencies. Is this what it stared out as?

[Machx2]

Maybe The Crime StatS Are Down Because No One Is Making Traffic Stops And Arresting The Bad Guys.... Also, Do They Not Have Detectives Anymore For Investigations?

Chances are the one doing most of the burglaries was arrested by another town or city or picked up on drug charges ect. They didn't relocate because of these guys. The area dropped 9 burglaries a month. That is one guy. I wouldn't pay for security or off duty officers. Id just hire Forever Frost to sit in a lawn chair on my lawn with a shotty.

[FastFord19]

Maybe The Crime StatS Are Down Because No One Is Making Traffic Stops And Arresting The Bad Guys.... Also, Do They Not Have Detectives Anymore For Investigations?

[Blackpony]

Seems like a great deal. They are saving money plus having guys there to specifically keep the area safe and not focus on writing tickets. I am sure there are also police present at times to so the ticket writing. Basically they just doubled the patrol appearance and saved a ton of money on their car insurance by switching to geico.

[JamisonFRC]

Foot patrol is great, if you have the manpower for it. And your "beat" is tiny and densely populated.

For instance, my normal beat is roughly 4-5 square miles. Granted it is one of the largest beats in the city. But you can see that would be impossible to cover on foot. Call load also comes into the picture. Unless you want to designate the foot patrols as non call takers. Which only puts more load on all the other guys working.

I maybe ignorant, but I've never heard of HOA/neighborhoods paying for city/local police on a contract outside of taxes.

I'm not saying I know either, the article was vague.

At my old condo there was always an off duty officer that did patrols, that we paid for in our dues. Most of the time his ass was fucking off in the rec room while my car was getting broken in to, or yelling at people to get out of the hot tub 15 minutes before the curfew for it. Worthless sacks of shit.

[ceyko]

I maybe ignorant, but I've never heard of HOA/neighborhoods paying for city/local police on a contract outside of taxes.

I'm not saying I know either, the article was vague.

[David]

Fuck a bunch of hired contractors to patrol my neighborhood.

[Forever_frost]

Basically from my reading, the Houston PD charges X amount to patrol the area and the community thought it could get better care cheaper. Law enforcement that doesn't write tickets, doesn't go after you for expired inspection or no front license plate, just goes after bad guys.

Wonder how much more effective police would be if they

A) Got out and walked the neighborhoods they 'protect.' You know, community policing. Get to know the people there and seem a part of the solution instead of the problem.

B) Instead of writing tickets for 5 over, actually patrol neighborhoods and get to violent crimes and thefts with some sort of speed

[Machx2]

Ok, let me get this straight. This is a Houston neighborhood that was paying off duty officers for extra security? This is still part of Houston and they patrol it also is what I am getting out of the stories I've read. So what is the big deal they went from off duty to security for their neighborhood patrol? If you watch the video about it talking about a person stabbed, Houston Police was working it....

[Chili]

Private security companies have provided the policing for certain cities / areas for a LONG time. Have you guys never seen the movie Kuffs?

[Pokulski-Blatz]

It is only a matter of time.