Chief Urged to Keep 2 PAL Officers at Simpson Park

Chief Urged to Keep 2 PAL Officers at Simpson Park

By Rick Rousos
THE LEDGER

Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 12:51 a.m.

"PAL is not a luxury, it's a necessity," said Yvette Foster. "We're not looking at numbers. We're trying to keep our kids out of jail."

Parents all over are trying to keep their kids out of trouble, but they don't have special assigned armed officers teaching them how to play basketball and helping them with their homework like the northwest community of Lakeland.



People in the audience found a good listener in Boatner, but they weren't satisfied...

Yeah, well...welcome to our world. When you can find him, he pretends to be listening intently. He is a master at knowing how to say exactly what you want to hear. But nothing changes, Nero continues to fiddle while Rome burns.

[quote]Chief Urged to Keep 2 PAL Officers at Simpson Park

By Rick Rousos
THE LEDGER

Published: Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, August 9, 2008 at 12:51 a.m.

"PAL is not a luxury, it's a necessity," said Yvette Foster. "We're not looking at numbers. We're trying to keep our kids out of jail."

Parents all over are trying to keep their kids out of trouble, but they don't have special assigned armed officers teaching them how to play basketball and helping them with their homework like the northwest community of Lakeland.



People in the audience found a good listener in Boatner, but they weren't satisfied...

Yeah, well...welcome to our world. When you can find him, he pretends to be listening intently. He is a master at knowing how to say exactly what you want to hear. But nothing changes, Nero continues to fiddle while Rome burns.[/quote:22jdh571]


Heck, I say put them both back in patrol...playing football won't keep these kids out of jail, BEHAVING themselves and NOT BREAKING THE LAW will.

Yea let's spend more good money after bad. If these momma's babies were raised after birth instead of just delivered......Problem solved. As taxpayers and officers we should not have to baby sit these hoodlums. The worst part is that a Chief that does the head nod and goes along with it. What ever happened to: " It is your kids and your community. You need to take care of your own disciplinary problems with your kids" Not all, but within the low income communities there is welfare and those, who sit on their brains all day while we pay taxes, but that's not good enough for them. Those , who complain want us to pay for them and raise them too. Enough is enough. Put the PAL guys back in patrol. Enough of all the speciality units and taking from patrol. :evil: :devil: :evil: