Thread: Why frontline cops should be armed

Originally Posted by gadgetman

The thing is they wouldn't need arming if they did more policing. Unfortunately the police, like everyone else, have been regulated out of a lot of common sense powers. If they had the ability to effectively deal with offenders at the beginning of their careers things would be sweet and dandy. Unfortunately the front line police have not been given the backing of the courts, politicians, society or their own hierarchy. They are not meant to pursue too many things that are not cost effective, hence they don't turn up and are not interested in pursuing thefts/burglaries; we just get to pay for that ourselves with higher insurance premiums. Minor traffic infringements by the usually law abiding though is a good money spinner. The trouble with this approach is the crims get to carry on until it becomes an embedded way of life for them and when they do finally get dealt with properly it's too late turn them around and they are a bigger problem for society.

Now onto the more serious issue. Daughter wants to paint moustaches on my newly painted trailer. I don't want it to look too authoritarian so what style?

I had an acquaintance call the police because a few of the local teenagers were being a nuisance and harassing traffic on the local street. He got the reply " Its just teenagers being teenagers...". To which he suggested that "teenagers being teenagers" used to get a telling off by "Cops being Cops" and they would pull their heads in and become people being society. Now the "Cops being Cops doesn't happen so the teenagers often push the boundary's and become "Dicks being Vandals" and onwards towards "crims being crims" and now the cops have a bigger mess to deal with.....The officer at the end of the phone went quiet and said he would send someone when he got the chance....

I dont know if anyone actually came but thats beside the point. Point is, if kids are taught proper boundary's when they start pushing, they dont push so far past the boundarys that we have to move the boundarys to get them back.

Originally Posted by timattalon

I had an acquaintance call the police because a few of the local teenagers were being a nuisance and harassing traffic on the local street. He got the reply " Its just teenagers being teenagers...". To which he suggested that "teenagers being teenagers" used to get a telling off by "Cops being Cops" and they would pull their heads in and become people being society. Now the "Cops being Cops doesn't happen so the teenagers often push the boundary's and become "Dicks being Vandals" and onwards towards "crims being crims" and now the cops have a bigger mess to deal with.....The officer at the end of the phone went quiet and said he would send someone when he got the chance....

I dont know if anyone actually came but thats beside the point. Point is, if kids are taught proper boundary's when they start pushing, they dont push so far past the boundarys that we have to move the boundarys to get them back.

I like the cut of your acquaintance's gib

Originally Posted by Tommy

I like the cut of your acquaintance's gib

Very sharp cut, I must agree.

Originally Posted by timattalon

I had an acquaintance call the police because a few of the local teenagers were being a nuisance and harassing traffic on the local street. He got the reply " Its just teenagers being teenagers...". To which he suggested that "teenagers being teenagers" used to get a telling off by "Cops being Cops" and they would pull their heads in and become people being society. Now the "Cops being Cops doesn't happen so the teenagers often push the boundary's and become "Dicks being Vandals" and onwards towards "crims being crims" and now the cops have a bigger mess to deal with.....The officer at the end of the phone went quiet and said he would send someone when he got the chance....

I dont know if anyone actually came but thats beside the point. Point is, if kids are taught proper boundary's when they start pushing, they dont push so far past the boundarys that we have to move the boundarys to get them back.

Exactly!