[Mpls] Mobile Command Big BLue

[joan thom]

  Dyna
  The Command center is staffed any time it's on the street, and has been all week end you can tour it just knock on the door.
  If it's not on the street it's just parked in a parking lot. This was not purchased just for this purpose.
  Joan THom
  Hawthorne

  Another grand example of the failure of "law enforcement by remote 
  control" is MPD's new blue bus. It's been parked for a couple days now 
  a block from my most humble home in the 'hood, but it only took about a 
  day for the local criminals to figure out that the lights were on but 
  no cops were home. Sure enough, yesterday morning a carload from the 
  'burbs was enjoying their crack in a blind spot of the less than block 
  away blue bus. Later that day a car was stolen from nearly the same 
  spot. The moral here is that there's no point in our city buying pricey 
  toys- "mobile command units" run upwards of $100,000- unless we have 
  the officers to staff them. Consider also that an unstaffed "Mobile 
  Command Unit" is a tempting target for gangbangers- whoever steals or 
  torches the blue bus will gain considerable street cred... So if we 
  can't staff it let's sell it and use the proceeds to put some officers 
  on the street!
  Dyna Sluyter

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