These two are here selling drugs...they were so cracked up that, of course, they thought they were invisible...and, of course, the RCMP were called and responded 45 minutes later. You all remember how many blocks we are from the RCMP station, right? Three. By that time, they had moved on.
The night before we left for Kamloops, Fire, Emergency and RCMP responded to the corner. I didn't go out for a closer look...it was Sid and Nancy again. I would rant, but what would be the point? And, again, he didn't go to jail. How much city taxpayer money is spent in emergency and police response to just these two people? Shouldn't they have to spend some time in jail just for that? Shouldn't someone get arrested just because they are flushing so much of our time and energy down the toilet? Besides, if you could keep Sid away from Nancy, maybe she would think about getting out of here, going home to her family, getting out of this lifestyle...maybe. Could happen.
Then, the night we came home, deja vu. Well, it wasn't Sid and Nancy but it was the same corner...it's the house on the corner. I don't even want to know. Ya know?
And then? Today? Five RCMP cars, five, stop this guy in a green Astrovan out front. Five cars. Wow. Now he must be a scary guy, right? They get him out, pat him down, smile, joke, deposit him in the back of a police car. One by one, the RCMP units disaapear, and only the car with the "perp" is left. I figure they're waiting for a tow truck or something....but no, the RCMP officer has a little chat with the fella they just had four back up units assist in arresting and lets the guy out of his car and the guy gets into the van and drives away with the cop following with his lights on. What is that about? Anyone?
Only in Nanaimo, right...or am I wrong?
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If only they had the slightest glimmer of how embarassing this is for them to read about it online. There HAS to be something that can be done! Almost makes you wonder whose pocket they're in...there has to be some reason for such neglect of duty.
You need a remote controlled killer law enforcemnet robot...with rocket launcher arms. I could build you one...I could.
I like Tod's idea. I vote killer robot cop.
Really, there has to be something to do? Call your congressmen? Write to the sheriff?
Get the people who are in politics involved. Write, call, annoy, and they will hand down the suffering to the police. In the end all they care about is your vote, they do not care one iota if your tax money is being wasted. You have to play the voting angle. Complain to the top, the guys whose jobs are on the line with your vote. And get your neighbors involved. Nothing works better on the polititions than petitions or complaints signed by lots of people. They lose their cool when they see all those votes being flushed away.
we have a great neighbourhood group, we have held countless meetings with the police, the city social planner, the local business, council members, yadda yadda. we don't have the power to turn their heads down this way...honest, we are organized...we write letters, we write the paper, we attend meetings... it is a long and sordid mess i will write about sometime...
i understand. i understand. and you know what pisses me, when community groups make the effort to fix up their neighbourhoods and politics and law enforcemnet make great hinderances of themselves. our city council is BAD for that. why are outreach programs, health care and education so under funded. these are the basis of a better society, can't understand why such a simple concept is so had to face....
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