Obviously the threat of crime here is exaggerated.
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Obviously the threat of crime here is exaggerated.
[QUOTE=Sidney]Not 1 arrest the first day![/QUOTE]Maybe they're presence alone is a deterrent to crime?
That reminds me of the mid-western city mayor who was criticized for hiring his cousin as the city's hurricane watcher. He response was "[I]Obviously my cousin must be doing a good job because we haven't had a single hurricane since I hired him.[/i]"
Thanks,
Jackson
[QUOTE=Sidney]Not 1 arrest the first day![/QUOTE]The real war will start between the Federal Police and the Metropolitan police when there is a full contingency of the later. Why?
Everyone knows, actually anyone who has had a drink at one of the local watering holes or dinner at one of the city restaurants that they all pay protection money (coima) to the police. Who hasn't seen a police officer pull-up to the curb and enter the establishment and an envelope is passed to the officer? If you conduct business in the city most likely you are paying the police force.
No one should see these corrupt exchanges as being perpetrated by a few rouge cops, these transactions are endemic and systematically executed by the top brass. Even the little old lady from which I buy the best bread in town passes an envelope at the same time and same day of the month to a police officer. These businesses see it as part of the cost of doing business.
Once there is a fully operational city police force there will be a turf war, not over the arresting of criminals, but over the collecting of the envelopes.
[QUOTE=Sidney]They only work in the daytime and are unarmed!
What a leader Macri is! Macri for Presidente! Yeah right![/QUOTE]Okay, I'll bite.
Sidney, why do you care if the city develops their own police force or not?
Does this affect you in some way, or are you simply railling against all things not Reagan?
Thanks,
Jackson
Seems the new police is working together with the normal police quite well. No turf war. If you can read spanish: [url]http://www.clarin.com/diario/2010/02/13/um/m-02139439.htm[/url]
Basically it is a report about the usual day of an officer of the "policia metropolitana". Including a complaint by a woman about a "privado" in her building which is causing problems and police not acting because being bribed.
Response: "No, we can only act if sex is offered in public places. You could file a report to the attorney though."
No word about the bribed police officers. Of course not.
Not surprising that they don't bother each other. Of course you can all do that poor lady a favor by not visiting any privados at Corrientes & Libertad:-)
[QUOTE=Dave132]If you can read spanish: [url]http://www.clarin.com/diario/2010/02/13/um/m-02139439.htm[/url]
"No, we can only act if sex is offered in public places. You could file a report to the attorney though."[/QUOTE]Although the profession of "El fiscal" en Spanish is that of attorney, the article was referring that one could file a complaint with an assistant attorney general (el fiscal) not just an attorney. It's a common practice to file complaints (against noisy neighbors, construction workers who harass women walking by construction sites, etc.) with the hundreds of assistant attorney generals (fiscales) in the city of Buenos Aires.
By the way, they are very effective in conflict resolutions. They've been known to shutdown construction sites for a few weeks if 2 or more complaints are filed against workers for harassing women. However, in general, the role of an assistant attorney general is to evaluate cases against those accused of crimes and decide whether or not to proceed in prosecuting them.
At the risk of being called a pedant, I have to repeat what I have posted before about Argentine politics and law. The sole purpose of public life, political or administrative, is not to serve the nation, it is solely to enrich the office bearer. I bet there are exceptions but I have never met them. So the politicians are there to gain personal wealth by secret commissions, (coimas) paid by beneficaries of public works programs that are beefed-up 50% to pay the coimas. All the police are on the take, from simple free meals at restaurants, (ask Ramiro or Rock Harders) to massive shakedowns on multi million dollar companies. The judiciary and the public prosecutors are all in it. Don't even ask me about how the Customs (Aduana) department works. They are all gigantic shakedowns and the bulk of the money percolates to the highest offices in the land.
The President with the longest time in office, Carlos Menem, (2 terms in the 90's) left the office a billionaire on his own admission, given he said by grateful admirers who included as it turns out, courtesy of US corruption laws, German industrial companies that shelled out close to 250 million dollars in just one deal.
So pleeeeeese don't discuss the goings on here in a manner that seeks to rationalise, what to us are illogical decisions. The aim is to strip all the government revenue that it is possible to grab and to convert that money to their own wealth funds. And this they do to a remarkable degree of success. And since that was the aim of becoming a politician or law officer, you can't fault their results.
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