Ziad wrote:What I meant was instead of having KPIs (say quotas) that they are judged by... decrease the bureaucracy and let them actually spend more time doing real policing.
What we need is more visible police presence. OB the road and when requested. A good example, a couple years ago we'r were having a party and a friend was turning into our driveway and got hit by oncoming car. We called the cops and told them that the outthey person was drunk, and guess what no one showed up
The problem is that our current Police force no longer serves the community, they're all tied up trying to turn ordinary people into criminals because it's far easier to convict us and they make more money out of us. Real criminals cost too much to chase down and prosecute, and if they convict them then they cost money to house. The rest of us get busted for speeding 2km over the limit, parking five minutes too long, having a loose .22LR rolling around the back of the ute, etc, pay our fines (to pay the prosecutors' salaries) and save up for the next ridiculous offence to be enacted. Last year Victoria brought in a law to make it legal for a motorcycle rider to take one foot off the footpeg to stretch his leg - WTF? The implication is that Police have been busting so many riders for stretching their legs that they had to make a new law!