OK, so you taxpayers paid out so much money to the Salisbury Fire Department, guess what? Funds are so tight in the City, the Deputy Fire Chief Gordy got a brand spanking new Police Package Chase Vehicle, dropped it off at the shop to have decals and light package in the many thousands of dollars, YET the Salisbury Police Department is sitting on BRAND NEW CRUISERS and they can't afford to purchase the LIGHT PACKAGES to get them on the street!
Oh, now I know old Chiefy is REALLY PO'd at me for this one but the truth is the truth and these vehicles are sitting until the City, riddled with crime, can somehow find the funding to pay for these light packages and get them onto the streets.
What an embarrassment as a leader of an entire 88 staff Police Force that they can't find the money to better serve the Public. Yeppers, vote for Gary Comegys, who supports the Salisbury Fire Department by the sum of at least $18,000,000.00 in the past 14 months but screw the SPD! Sorry Chief, I truly feel for you and the men and women that serve that Department. This is just unbelievable! That's OK though, right? I mean, at least you can depend on Bill Gordy getting to ANY scene well before your people do!
But according to Gary, the police dept. doesn't need more money.
ReplyDeleteJoe do you know what percentage of the City of Salisbury's budget goes to the Salisbury Police Dept.?
ReplyDeleteSometimes when people realize the percentages, it makes a difference.
Especially if they don't feel the department is doing the job they should be doing.
Interesting camera angle there Joe.
ReplyDeleteWell, with 2 officers off the street, they can offord the cars.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they have some dash lights to put on it and let it go at that for awhile. Make it a supervisor car. The explorers are crap anyway.
ReplyDeleteThe badge, the gun and Maryland statutes should do all the talking necessary...Do you think Serpico needed a light package?? Get those vehicles on the streets even if you put glo-stix on top! If you aren't going to utilize a motorized vehicle, you could have purchased at least 30 mountain bikes {per cruiser expense} where your officers could actually get ahead of the criminals and act as mobile, stealth "cavalry" to actually fight more of a low-tech, pro-active war against violent street crime instead of being bogged down with the time and expense needs of Hannibal's high-maintenance/tactically flawed elephants, which ultimately doomed him at Zama. You see, the big expensive elephants {the Abrams tanks of their times} proved unadaptable and when countered with simple "street sense" and guerilla military tactics; the adversary {like the punks shooting people at local ATMS} just thinned his lines out horizontally and let the myopic elephants charge blindly forward, through the gaps they themselves allowed, in a straight line without inflicting casualties-well, at least until the elephants also became confused and ran back home to their own perimeter and crushed many of their own Carthaginian soldiers. Don't a lot of you comment on those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it??
ReplyDeleteLooks like they have plenty of police cars parked there all the time. Why don’t city officers who are actually brave enough to live in the city limits have take home cars? This increases police presence, make the vehicle last a lot longer, and would make the agency more competitive with all the other agencies in the county who have take home cars. All the administration who live many miles outside the city (and even in other counties) have take home cars they only use to drive to and from work everyday.
ReplyDeleteIt shouldn’t take months to put lights in a vehicle. The 12 plus cars administrators and detectives drive have lights and siren that would work great for patrol. The administrators who drive them don’t even know how to use the lights and sirens anyway.
Stuff like this is why crime is out of control, morale is bad, and city officers are leaving every month for better agencies while many more are in the process of applying to other agencies. This has been going on for the past ten years and the Chief, Major, and Captains could careless about the turnover rate.