Doing It Local reports mounted patrols are taking place at Trumbull Gardens housing project that suffered a shooting two weeks ago that wounded eight and also killed a man.
0
Mounted Patrols At Trumbull Gardens
22 comments
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
That’s a lot of horseshit!
My comment has nothing to with the police officers, instead it’s the decision to have mounted patrols in Trumbull Gardens is nothing more than a dog and pony show that has nothing to do with protecting those residents. This is nothing more than PR for Bill Finch.
Ron Macky, you would suggest what?
Who will be picking up that horseshit since Bob Walsh mentioned it? I definitely think the police presence will have an impact.
How about putting boots on the ground, Steven, as a police presence? How about a police substation that is manned by police 24 hours a day? How about having police walking the beat so these mostly suburban white cops can have a better understanding of the people they are there to protect and so the residents can see all police don’t mistreat blacks and most have the best interest of their community at heart? And finally, whose job is it to pick up the horseshit or is the plan just to leave it there?
Mounted police put four hooves on the ground and two boots in the stirrups. I’m sure there are plenty of patrol cars around, too.
Patrol cars? You must be high. If there were a police presence at all there wouldn’t have been a shooting. I have no bone to pick with the BPD. The rank and file uniformed officers are good people for the moist part, professional law enforcement officers simply doing their jobs and following orders. The department is understaffed. Manpower is budgeted to where it is needed. If Mayor Finch were up to his job he’d be ordering Chief Gaudett to implement a “broken windows” policing strategy. It has done wonders in New York City.
Never in the history of New York City has there been a “broken windows” policy at a public housing project.
The part of Pete Spain will be played by Jennifer Buchanan in this post. It has been implemented and documented in NYC.
www .nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html
I agree with you Don, what about having a police presence that is not looking down on anyone from a beast (beautiful as they can be, horses are still beasts). That can be both a traumatizing (though much less than walking past dead or bullet-riddled bodies) and alienating circumstance. We should always be on an eye-to-eye relationship with the police who patrol our communities.
Believe it or not, there have been studies that show officers mounted on horses help. The horses seem to have a calming effect on humans. Here is a link from Chicago PD regarding their mounted patrol.
portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/About%20CPD/Specialized%20Units/Mounted%20Unit
Is the substation up the street not close enough for you, Donald Day? Mounted officers dedicated isn’t enough for you? White suburban cops need to “walk.” Personally, if I were running the police dept. I would only have our African American cops or just black cops in general in case we offend Jamaicans and Cape Verdeans, walking the beat in Trumbull Gardens, this way no racist crap about the white cops in the neighborhood. This is the one time where I would agree individuals reflecting the flavor of the neighborhood were the ones patrolling.
The horse crap can be collected by the vegetable gardens up the street, and after the winter will make excellent compost for the community gardens. That is a great idea. Maybe volunteers can collect and bring it up the street. I am sure they just will not leave it there, though it it more biodegradable than the bottles and broken glass you just cannot keep up with.
Steve, as long as the police officers are from Bridgeport there would be more of a connection to the individual officers because they might have lived there or their family or friends who would be the eyes and ears for the police without endangering the residents there. Police on horses is all a public relations act with no real policing being done, they are all show.
See Eric Alicea post at 9:50pm.
My question is, who’s paying? Three years ago the housing authority received federal money to pay for police patrols in the projects. This new director though is clueless about how to run an agency since his only industry experience is a tiny, struggling agency in small-town Indiana for one year. Now Finch is spending extra for patrols in the projects at the expense of the rest of the city because the housing commissioners he appointed hired a director who’s unqualified to run a large agency.
I was thinking we could get some money for Segway Police. So green!
That is a great idea!
Anything that’s horseshit we are all for.
Bullshit makes better fertilizer.
Steve,
Take a walk along the parade route a couple of days afterwards. You will see horseshit still on the roads. Do you really think this is a good idea in a densely populated neighborhood with lots of kids or is it more of an attitude toward the neighborhood?
Bob, leave it to you! If I close my eyes I can almost smell it.
Just because windows were broken at a public housing project in NYC doesn’t mean the police ever instigated a “broken windows” policy at a public housing facility there.