Law Enforcement
The White House, crime in the streets of DC; where are the police?
Law Enforcement: the White House and crime in the streets of Washington, DC; where are the police, and for whom is the law being enforced?
Law Enforcement: the White House and crime in the streets of Washington, DC; where are the police, and for whom is the law being enforced? Consider, should 90% of all law enforcement officers consistently patrol the perimeter of the White House, the Capital, and comparable structures within the boundaries of the White House? Aren’t Secret Service officers responsible for, and detailed specifically to the ‘White House and its borders? Should the remaining 10% of police officers in Washington, DC remain behind desks? Granted; supposedly, the present ‘Bush’ administration requires more security than any other, historically. Well, the events of ‘President G.W. Bushes’ Inauguration Day ceremony was in, and of itself traditionally different than any other, and, might lend credence to the need for ‘calling all cops.’ Of course, one might expect that six months later, law and order would also be restored to the society at large.
On any given day, and at any given time of the day in Washington, DC; you just may find that 90% of any, and all law enforcement officers are assigned to, patrolling, and nesting about the White House, the Mall, the Capital, and related similar structures; exclusively. It may also be, that the remaining 10% of enforcement officers in Washington, DC are manning desks and pushing paperwork, or, so the constant state of crime on the largely crime-ridden streets of Washington, DC suggests.
If this is the case, is it any wonder that major criminal activity over the past seven (7) years, has reached unprecedented proportions? Could the lack of police presence be a major factor? Must people die senselessly and needlessly here, and abroad? Wouldn’t a concentrated police effort and presence on the streets of Washington, DC make a difference to the criminal element, and affect the level of criminal activity as well? Isn’t that, specifically, what police officers do; patrol and present a physical presence for the good of the social order? Seems, at one time it was the function of, and the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police Department. If it were not, why would they be so deeply entrenched within the perimeters of the White House, along with Secret Service, and every other sort of armed officer? Doesn’t society at large deserve some sense of law and order? Clearly, the criminal element is rampant, unbridled, unyielding, seemingly without fear of reprisal, and certainly not cognizant of law enforcement. Isn’t the presence of ‘law enforcement’ officers’ key, here?
Elsewhere, the absence of law and order, or any other common societal need, might be considered as barbaric, unacceptable, insensitive, and as blatant social negligence; a crime against one’s own people. Are the citizens of Washington, DC forced to give-up common expectations, such as the right to a reasonably secure existence; conducive to a sound social order? Nowadays; seemingly, like with most everything else relative to our local social welfare, security abroad; i.e., the forcing of so-called law enforcement on foreign soil, now takes precedence over the welfare of (We the People), the benchmark of the United States of America.
Washington, DC; at least, being the ‘United States’ capital, the seat of national regulatory administrative government and democracy, should set ‘the’ example as such, and seek to prevail as a forerunner of the same.
One might conclude, that, if as much time, energy, intelligence, management, tax money, and man-power were exhausted on American soil, as is spent abroad, numerous issues confronting the condition and welfare of our present economy would readily be addressed; including security in Washington, DC and throughout our homeland. One might further conclude that our borders would be sufficiently secured.
