> The trouble had started in 1986, when General Motors announced it would close seven plants in the area, starting a depression.Thousands of workers were laid off, and families began to flee the area in search of jobs. In 1987, Money magazine had named Flint the worst place to live in America. Now, dealers were at large, peddling cocaine, marijuana, LSD, and prescription pills.
Seems to me that those laid-off workers found other employment, and the police then spent their time jailing them for working hard to survive.
> But inside one of the arrested suspect’s cars, police found a young boy. Wasylyshyn called on Williams who carried the boy to a police car and told him everything would be okay. “He was part of this so-called victimless crime,” Williams told me.
The ones who victimised that boy were the ones who took him from his parents and locked the latter up!
> The end take for the cops included several motor vehicles, vanloads of suspects, and, crucially, over $100,000 in cash from the reverse buys.
How is this different from highway robbery? If gangsters stole a large amount of property & money from hard-working businessmen, I doubt that the Atlantic would celebrate it.
> But while the 1990 operation didn’t make a long-term impact on crime, it was a life-altering event for the officers who took part in it.
I don't begrudge them their good time, but … is that what the taxpayers are paying them for?
Seems to me that those laid-off workers found other employment, and the police then spent their time jailing them for working hard to survive.
> But inside one of the arrested suspect’s cars, police found a young boy. Wasylyshyn called on Williams who carried the boy to a police car and told him everything would be okay. “He was part of this so-called victimless crime,” Williams told me.
The ones who victimised that boy were the ones who took him from his parents and locked the latter up!
> The end take for the cops included several motor vehicles, vanloads of suspects, and, crucially, over $100,000 in cash from the reverse buys.
How is this different from highway robbery? If gangsters stole a large amount of property & money from hard-working businessmen, I doubt that the Atlantic would celebrate it.
> But while the 1990 operation didn’t make a long-term impact on crime, it was a life-altering event for the officers who took part in it.
I don't begrudge them their good time, but … is that what the taxpayers are paying them for?