Where the police know the residents, including the kids, by name; and watch, investigate, inquire, or contact strangers at night or if they suspect wrongdoing.
Where the police aggressively enforce traffic laws so its safe for me and my kids to drive, ride or walk on the sidewalk and streets on the way to the park; and where the community benefits from the investigations that start as traffic stops.
Where drunk, reckless, negligent, unsafe drivers know they should avoid my community because there is a higher risk the police are being vigilant and the chance of being discovered and prosecuted is real; so they choose to drive around my community.
All these things most every honest person would admit they too would like in their community. Yet they are the things being used to attack the Ottawa Hills PD in the wake of a shooting incident following a felony chase, in which a motorcycle rider may have become paralyzed.
I remain proud to live in a clean, safe, well maintained, lighted, diverse community with a pro-active police force. I thank them for their service every chance I get.
TAHL
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since when did this become a felony traffic stop? how about never.
i really dislike you and would like to meet face to face to have a chat about our differences. maybe i could put some sense into your tiny little brain
Sure, I'd like to live in a place like that. And to a certain extent, I do. Sylvania Township (not the city of Sylvania) has a first rate police force.
The uproar over the shooting incident in Ottawa Hills has subsided, probably for good. Ottawa Hills will buy the motorcycle rider off. Charges, lawsuits and complaints will get dropped (quietly, so as not to alert anyone) and that will be that.
My own opinion does not matter, but I'm going to voice it anyway. Shooting a passive, unarmed man is not acceptable. The victim wasn't resisting, was not a threat to anyone. Similar to the shooting in Lima, OH by a SWAT team, my opinion is that this is a completely unjustified shooting, and that's the way it will remain unless new evidence of some sort surfaces.
However.
If we are going to arm our police force, then we will have unintentional and/or unjustified shootings committed by police. If we allow police to drive patrol cars, we'll have auto accidents where police are at fault. Give the police a Taser, a PR24 or the authority to arrest and detain people, and we will certainly have abuse of authority. Now then, just swallow that fact and be done with it, because that's the way things are.
The question is, what do the mere civilians do when (not if, when) this happens? What recourse do we have? Because that's where the civilians get stonewalled, which makes it appear that nothing is done about the abuse.
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