floundersgreatadventure

Sorry this is going out late but I just didn’t feel like saying anything but Jeff has a few words he’d like to say. How many Americans out there and Colombian too remember the respect that police officers use to have? When I was a kid there use to be a cop on every main corner and they would be walking around the neighborhoods as well. The one on the corner of South Munn and Central avenues in East Orange, New Jersey where I grew up was very typical of all of them at the time. His name was Herbie and he knew everybody’s name in the area and he knew what time you should be home from school and the scary part was he knew if you did something wrong. He’d wait for you to come by his post and then he would call you over and walk down this little alley behind Ziegler’s liquor store and the he would beat the crap out of you take back out to the corner go to the pay phone call your mother and send you home. When you got home your mother would smack you around send you to your room to await the arrival of your father that’s when thing would really get rough. Now a day’s cops have to ride two to a car because there is no respect for the police, in Colombia I’m not sure of the reason other than corruption but there is no respect for the police the effect of this is a police force that reacts to crime rather than prevent it. People all over the world want safe neighborhoods for the families to grow up in but most people expect the police to protect them without any help. I’ve testified before grand juries and in traffic court I can’t see something and then go bury my heads in the sand. I know how hard it is for a police officer to make ends meet on their salaries and I’ve met corrupt and violent cops but anytime I’ve ever needed one they responded quickly and courteously. If people down here want better police first they need to respect the uniform and help them get rid of the bad ones. I know it won’t be easy or quick but in the end you’ll have better and safer places to raise your kids. Well I think Jeff finally ran out of words so I’m out of here Ciao.