> Police say they take bike theft seriously, though manpower to tackle it is a challenge.
> “Unfortunately in big cities and small towns across the country we’re facing staff retention issues,” says Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations. “So it tends to get pushed to the back of the line.”
On the one hand - there are lots of under-resourced police departments around. (And Bill Johnson is stuck being the front man a huge variety of local situations here.)
On the other hand - where is the motive for the police taking bike theft seriously? One basic rule of democracy is that if failing to do X is painless to both the politicians and the government workers, then you really shouldn't expect much in the way of X.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 14.4 ms ] thread> “Unfortunately in big cities and small towns across the country we’re facing staff retention issues,” says Bill Johnson, executive director of the National Association of Police Organizations. “So it tends to get pushed to the back of the line.”
On the one hand - there are lots of under-resourced police departments around. (And Bill Johnson is stuck being the front man a huge variety of local situations here.)
On the other hand - where is the motive for the police taking bike theft seriously? One basic rule of democracy is that if failing to do X is painless to both the politicians and the government workers, then you really shouldn't expect much in the way of X.