Maybe we should close down police departments in high-crime areas.

[rucky]

They obviously aren't doing their jobs well enough. For their poor performance they should either be shut down completely, or they should fire everybody - the chief and all the officers. Or I suppose another option would be to privatize the station - bring in a corporation to run it more efficiently.

I wonder how that would play in Rhode Island?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Let's say only 7% of the detainees did not get beaten by police.

Keep the police, or fire the police?

[roguevalley]

14. maybe we can close down the senate for being completely stupid.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. !

Nicely done.

:applause:

[Bluebear]

3. Bravo.

[ProSense]

4. A ridiculous analogy. n/t

[bahrbearian]

10. Riduculous Reply . n/t

[eridani]

16. Why? n/t

[DisgustedInMN]

26. No, actually...

...it was a spot on, absolutely PERFECT analogy. The fact that you don't like it, makes it even better.

:patriot: :applause: :woohoo: :fistbump: :party:

[no limit]

28. Thank you for that well thought out constructive reply. Makes you look very intelligent

[Cronus Protagonist]

31. lol

good one :^D

[liberal_at_heart]

5. This is the problem with local taxes vs. federal taxes

The rich neighborhoods could care less if the poor people are blowing each other away, but I guarantee the rich neighborhoods have enough cops to take care of the criminals that dare come into their neighborhood.

[eleny]

6. Or maybe shut them down in ritzy areas - Let them fend for themselves

[Bluebear]

7. Give those areas 'vouchers' so they can go hire their own fire department

:silly:

[eleny]

9. They don't need any stinking vouchers

[stray cat]

8. Lock up the damn children - there a bunch of criminals- they clearly are incapable of learning

anyway because surely everyone in a union is extremely competent and dedicated unlike non-union workers. The 85% of kids who can't do basic math are complete idiots and should just be locked up

[seabeyond]

21. look at the damn parents, or lack of. clearly they are incapable of parenting said child. nt

[Starry Messenger]

11. The medical profession hasn't lowered their death rates.

Life is still 100% fatal. Fire them all.

[Edweird]

12. Be careful what you wish for. I have no doubt there are contractors DYING

for that kind of privatization.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. It worked well in New Orleans, when Blackwater was brought in

they made everything so much better.

[Edweird]

29. Ah, but they were there to 'augment'. Imagine how swell it would be if they were autonomous.

[Catshrink]

13. And bring in a hack with no legal experience to run the Justice Department.

Yeah, that'll work.

Good job, Rucky!

:hi:

[leftstreet]

15. K&R

[nashville_brook]

17. kick.

[RB TexLa]

18. The federal government has done that. The FBI has taken over police departments

[seabeyond]

20. exactly. i am so GD tired of attack on schools and teachers from lazy ass parents that raise lazy

ass kids.

and then demand their children learn when they do nothing to encourage it.

a parent creates the environment for a child to shine, or they dont.

yet

so many on du has jumped on the repug line attacking schools. all for the buck. blindly following. and now they are truly fuckin shit up.

hopefully my kids will make it thru before total chaos and greed reignes

[Hannah Bell]

22. definitely!

[mmonk]

23. Ssssssssshhhhhhhh! They will take up your privatization idea.

Best not to say anything with that word in it.

[blueamy66]

24. Maybe they should be forced

to get some more training....like the teachers were asked to do...and to "tutor" the public each week.....

;-)

[Odin2005]

25. Oh, SNAP! +1000

[Kablooie]

27. Or move the high crime areas into the rich communties to encourage sharing the wealth.

[tranche]

30. I'm sure Obama hates them too.

[McCamy Taylor]

32. If we fire our soldiers in combat zones, those wars would come to a complete stop.

[spin]

33. Just allow everybody to carry in high crime areas ...

the bad guys already do and if honest citizens were allowed to carry the crime rate would drop.

If you give a herd of sheep fangs and claws, the wolves will relocate.

[Libertas1776]

34. Hey, we're not that far from this future...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

35. When I think cop privatization I think...

ROBOCOP.

[Dappleganger]

36. Or maybe we should privatize the police and give Blackwater the contract.

As long as they're private contractors they'll do a better job, right?

/s