23 Jan 2023 11:40 am
ScottMon - I appreciate that.ScottMon » 23 Jan 2023, 12:28 pm » wrote: ↑ Spartan, I respect your opinions. Locally, police forces across the country are doing their best within the laws and regulations to make our schools safer, but nationally, nothing ever changes. I personally would welcome well trained security at every school in America.
Yes, police forces are doing their best, but they're being undermined at every turn. The law enforcement officers are being thrown under the bus for every half-baked rationalization. They are scrambling for funding to do even the basics, and experienced officers are retiring or just quitting in droves. No one ever became a cop to become rich, of course, but there was a time when a good agency would back a good officer who followed policy regardless of what political wog got offended by it. Now, we have places that are letting criminals accused of crimes up to and including murder who are being released without bail, and they're back on the street before the arresting officer has finished his paperwork.
You're right that nationally nothing changes, because politicians don't give a rodent's derriere about their constituents. They brazenly lie, make ludicrous promises, and the people keep reelecting them to another term of grandstanding and doing nothing of merit. George Santos is a joke, but he's the unsurprising result of decades of people shrugging their shoulders and saying: "Well, politicians lie." People dismiss all wrong-doing by those who claim the right political ideology while they rail angrily against the exact same wrong-doing by those with the wrong ideology, and they refuse to see their own hypocrisy.
It's all becoming a huge, unfunny joke.