Ivor Karabatkovic wrote:so maybe 5 more cells and at least 5 more officers. Increasing the patrolling officer number would benefit everyone from the citizens to the officers themselves ....
We have the schools, we're starting to get the streets, now lets get the criminals off the streets!
Maybe the City should build a new jail on Berea Road; a jail that would handle all of the City's needs and the needs of neighboring Cities. It is possible that a jail built to hold 150 or so short term prisoners could be a profit center. At $200 a day each that comes to $11 million per year in revenue. There has to be some profit in that kind of money. Rather than a drain on City resources the jail could be revenue generator.
I am not in favor of adding more police officers. You would have to hire 15 officers to have 3 on the street at any one time.
If the work load is too heavy then those officers not on patrol duty could be put on patrol duty and some of the duties of police officers could be farmed out to private security firms.
Anyway, I like that you are thinking in terms of solutions and possibilities rather than just complaining.
The new president of council should be a person that is willing to challenge the underlying assumptions of City government, challenge the bureaucracy and demand results.