Tt post apr 14, 2017

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As Charmaine Bassett said

... they have the guns and the dogs, all of these abusive powers ...

Obviously, the Toledo police department can be reduced by a small percentage, which would mean the amount of money raided from the capital improvement fund to pay for police salaries can be decreased, which would permit a little more money to fix roads.

When you see these sneaky, radar-gun-holding police officers who, apparently, have nothing worthwhile to do with their time, that means some roads will not be repaired.

But the reason why we have sneaky, radar-gun-holding police officers is because it's a revenue stream for Toledo government. Everyone knows that it has nothing to do with safety. It's a money grab.

Therefore reducing the police force to repair more roads means less money coming into city government, which could negatively impact road repairs.

It's a glorious maze of warped circular reasoning that only Toledo government could perfect.

Those poor radar-gun-holding police officers may not want to participate in this money grab. They would probably prefer to do real police work, but they're following orders. And their commanders giving the orders are probably following orders, reluctantly.

Did the orders come from the mayor's office? That seems like a valid assumption.

From the WTVG story mentioned above:

13abc contacted the mayor's office, and city leaders now have a plan.

One driver is applauding the City of Toledo for refunding her money for a handheld speeding ticket. She received last year around this time.

"I'm glad the mayors office has stepped up and said we'll make this right for everybody."

Well, isn't that special. Let's applaud the mayor's office for coming through in a pinch while this whole affair makes TPD look bad even though it's possible that the mayor's office gave the orders for this mess, which helps fund political buffoonery.

How about the Toledo media investigate the reasons for the sudden increase in sneaky, radar-gun-holding Toledo police work over the past year. Maybe get some anonymous police officers to speak about this lame police work/money grab. Report why Toledo government needs the revenue from traffic cameras/radar guns. Report about the bloat in Toledo's budget. Report about the years of political incompetence.

In other words, do real reporting.

But that kind of reporting won't produce the social media metrics that media orgs crave. That kind of reporting requires the resources that Toledo media may not have. That kind of reporting would require readers to have an attention span that's greater than a goldfish.

February 2017 axios.com story that referenced a May 2015 Time story :

... the human attention span has fallen from 12 seconds to eight seconds since 2000, while the goldfish attention span is nine seconds.