re: State of emergency, LEO shortage -Jeff Landry

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Not sure how/if that helps smaller municipalities and local PD’s

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Nobody cares about places where the only crime is a speeder who didn't see the 5 MPH drop in speed limit sign hidden behind a tree and got pulled over by a "cop" who was sitting in a place where his tires have worn grooves in the dirt.

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Will this be utilized to actually address crime or raise more revenue?

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Speeding is a crime, regardless of what I or you might think. If reducing speeders leads to more money, used to hire more cops, so be it. I would rather pay a hundred dollar speeding ticket than spend a week on the county farm as punishment for my speeding crime.

In Jackson (my favorite example of a crime plagued rat hole) many criminals are caught when they are pulled over for speeding, weaving through traffic, or some other violation of traffic laws.

I speed, just like everyone else. I do it, knowing that excessive speed often leads to traffic accidents that injure or kill others. So does weaving through traffic, cutting folks off. running stop lights, turning without using a turn signal, texting while driving, drinking a cold one while or before driving, bla, bla bla.

Good people are targeted and ostracized from industries and institutions with deep systemic corruption such as law enforcement, eventually causing them to seek other employment. What you're left with is a bunch of corrupt good ole baw thug pigs who all have each others backs. That's what law enforcement is today. That's why they can't hire and keep people.

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Good people are targeted and ostracized from industries and institutions with deep systemic corruption such as law enforcement, eventually causing them to seek other employment. What you're left with is a bunch of corrupt good ole baw thug pigs who all have each others backs. That's what law enforcement is today. That's why they can't hire and keep people.

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I've been where you are and I completely understand those arguments. CAF, QI, all of it.

I think the difference now is I've lost patience with the coddling of the violent criminal element, and grown tired of LE pushing out to the burbs to give stopsign, hands free and seatbelt tickets to soccer moms.

They won't get shot, they get their money, and the criminals keep going.

These reforms have to come with strings that require "scalps" so to speak, and not just presence and budget boosting.

The fix isn't leaving the criminals to their own devices. Weve done it. It doesn't work.

Focusing on revenue collection first public safety second is perverse.

Every penny you’re spending on having some yokel shoot radar is a penny you’re not spending on solving felonies.

The consent decree needs to die. All it’s done is give thugs free rein. A NOLA cop told me that. Their hands are tied.

There isn't a single thing you can do about crime besides what that El Salvador pres did, by locking them up and having an even already extremely, exteremely high incarceration rate in Louisiana.

Any move where the thugs in Louisiana are left in the street will always result in crime continuing. There's no program, or extra officers, or anything that'll make it go down. The absolute only way possible is for them to be removed from society and put in a prison.

If they are left for their own free will, it will 100% continue to happen.

$3200 bail is bad for kilos of heroine like that. I've seen other states give $50,000 bail for something wayyyyy less than that much heroine. It was like a some drunk guy slapped a girls arse in public and got $50k bail for that.