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Ivor Karabatkovic
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my neighbor was offered a job with a government agency as a engineer in DC, and when he came back I remember him telling me that the computer systems were so bad he wouldn't even want to consider taking the job. The budgets got cut so much for things like that, that even our top agencies are taking a hit.
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dl meckes
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Jim O'Bryan wrote:From what i am hearing you might want to drop the words "to capacity."
What does "the equipment isn't working to capacity" mean to you?
My definition of capacity: the ability to perform or produce and capable of the potential for growth and development.
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Mark Crnolatas
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This cannot be explained any easier:
1) The Wood is surrounded on 2 sides by Cleveland.
2) The criminals of Cleveland doesn't care about street signs, so therefore, by normal evolution, expand north and west, into our city.
3) We could have had more police and equipment years ago for preventative measures, because this type of growth in crime on inner ring burbs is historic, nation-wide. It seems the citizens of our city in general, refuse to face that fact, and therefore the P.D. lacks funds for what they need in both equipment and personnel both on the street and in the station to handle a growing fact.
The bed was made, funds are not there, or barely there, and now we're listening to the results on the scanners.
Folks, the bad guys are not just going to say " Oops, I'm in Lakewood, I'll go back over the border and do my thing".
4) While again historically, I doubt anyone will find an inner-ring suburb, that has reversed the criminal activity back to Beaver Cleaver days, now we need to see something done to at least hold down the occurances.
We need to get money to LPD one way or another. They need the right "stuff" in equipment and additional manpower. We want quiet nights every night on the scanners. One doesn't happen without the other.
In Cleveland, at least a few yrs back, there were/are people that write the reports, the officers call in, saving the officers from having to go in early from their shift. Yes those report writers cost money.
All we need to do is look at CPD and how they have to do things. They have evolved by necessity. We are not immune to the same things, even though it would be nice to think we are.
Build all the nice condos you want, but if the area they are in, becomes a place where their cars get stolen, break-ins occur and such, how many people do you really think will want to live in them?
1) The Wood is surrounded on 2 sides by Cleveland.
2) The criminals of Cleveland doesn't care about street signs, so therefore, by normal evolution, expand north and west, into our city.
3) We could have had more police and equipment years ago for preventative measures, because this type of growth in crime on inner ring burbs is historic, nation-wide. It seems the citizens of our city in general, refuse to face that fact, and therefore the P.D. lacks funds for what they need in both equipment and personnel both on the street and in the station to handle a growing fact.
The bed was made, funds are not there, or barely there, and now we're listening to the results on the scanners.
Folks, the bad guys are not just going to say " Oops, I'm in Lakewood, I'll go back over the border and do my thing".
4) While again historically, I doubt anyone will find an inner-ring suburb, that has reversed the criminal activity back to Beaver Cleaver days, now we need to see something done to at least hold down the occurances.
We need to get money to LPD one way or another. They need the right "stuff" in equipment and additional manpower. We want quiet nights every night on the scanners. One doesn't happen without the other.
In Cleveland, at least a few yrs back, there were/are people that write the reports, the officers call in, saving the officers from having to go in early from their shift. Yes those report writers cost money.
All we need to do is look at CPD and how they have to do things. They have evolved by necessity. We are not immune to the same things, even though it would be nice to think we are.
Build all the nice condos you want, but if the area they are in, becomes a place where their cars get stolen, break-ins occur and such, how many people do you really think will want to live in them?
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ryan costa
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Many teenage girls in Lakewood are attracted to older adolescents from Cleveland. It is the same across the other suburbs.
The last time I went to Chipotle me and a friend were walking along detroit. A large woman exited a building on detroit serving as some kind of call center and got on her cell phone. I tried to tune out her voice, but it was very loud. "I'm in Mutha*****n' Lakewood". She had long garishly painted fingernails, which may or may not have been artificial.
The last time I went to Chipotle me and a friend were walking along detroit. A large woman exited a building on detroit serving as some kind of call center and got on her cell phone. I tried to tune out her voice, but it was very loud. "I'm in Mutha*****n' Lakewood". She had long garishly painted fingernails, which may or may not have been artificial.