Comments on Advance Indiana™: Sheriff's Deputies Will Finally Start Paying Cost Of Gas For Take-Home Vehicles

The "studies" show of take-home cars: 1...

2012-04-03T09:01:31.865-05:00

The "studies" show of take-home cars:

1. No net reduction in crime;

2. That take-home cars become targets of crime;

3. That cops don't live in high-crime areas so any benefit of the car is misplaced;

4. That criminals are able to use the location and movement of the cars to perform logistical analysis in crime planning;

5. That cops have domestic lifestyles similar to everyone else, so they don't come running out of the house with a gun if a crime is in progress;

6. That police are forced to purchase more cars; and,

7. That these cars are a massive expense to police departments that reduce their balance sheets, thus their crime-fighting abilities.

Take-home cars are nothing but a FOP union perk, but Republicans love unions when it's the FOP.

Take-home cars increase crime.

Herbert, all your claptrap has been exploded previ...

2012-04-03T08:59:13.659-05:00

Herbert, all your claptrap has been exploded previously on this and other Indianapolis forums. I don't have time to dispel these myths, again and again.

Further, cops are highly paid, with far better salaries, benefits and job security than are enjoyed by the people who employ them.

CT, sounds like we need to get IMPD back under the Sheriff, since he's doing a better job than IMPD in getting the cops in line and being accountable to the taxpayers.

http://advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2011/04/ballard-administration-refuses-to.html

1) Gary, I don't really feel that $50,000 a ye...

2012-04-03T07:47:12.047-05:00

1) Gary, I don't really feel that $50,000 a year is adequate salary for taking a bullet for someone, getting beat up by drunks and drug addicts, and getting fried by the media on a daily basis.
2) Perhaps someone should ask the sheriff WHY he needs 276 vehicles, many of them fully equipped and marked Dodge Chargers, when he does not have a patrol function anymore. In addition, he has a fleet of Harley motorcycles.

Sorry, Herbert, but those police officers are paid...

2012-04-02T17:01:20.986-05:00

Sorry, Herbert, but those police officers are paid more than enough for their work. They are not underpaid by any stretch of the imagination.

take-home cars create an incredible moral boost fo...

2012-04-02T16:12:59.227-05:00

take-home cars create an incredible moral boost for weary officers getting paid little for one of the most difficult jobs out there. increased visibility of marked cars also has an impact on crime. i wouldn't describe that as "corruption."

why not blame Strauss for his lousy fiscal management (like his demand for a completely unnecessary personal protection detail for example) instead of punishing the beat cop...

This needs to be applied to IMPD, immediately. It...

2012-04-02T11:38:08.587-05:00

This needs to be applied to IMPD, immediately.

It's strictly corruption to let IMPD walk off with millions of taxpayer dollars.