[Mpls] 21 Mpls police officers head to New Orleans

[Dennis Plante]

Justin Eibenholzl Writes:

Our City is so safe apparently we can spare some 21 police officers (and 10 
squads) to arrive three weeks after the fact down in New Orleans to help the 
approximate 30,000 guard troops, Army, and other enforcement officials many 
of whom have fully automatic  weapons/military vehicles.  Yeah, I'm feeling 
safer already. So lets see, If police is a function Rybak lit then that 
means 71-21=50 or is the 71 an imaginary number?  Math is hard.

If you like the status quo and feel well represented then there's no need to 
vote for change, but if you feel otherwise maybe it's time to go fill in a 
few new circles at your local polling place.


Dennis Plante Responds:
In this particular case I would gladly give-up 21 of our officers for an 
indefinite amount of time to help-out in this situation.  When I was a 
youngster growing-up in farm country, I assisted on several occaissions in 
"barn-raisings" where a neighboring farmer's barn had been struck by 
lightening, or incurred some other misfortune.  Nobody got paid, or needed 
to be asked to help-out.  We just did-it because it "felt right".  This 
feels right.

Besides which, the army presence in N.O. serves a much different function 
then does the police.

dennis plante
lind-bohanon