Well,
1) Not even close to agreeing, but meth is without a question a major issue. Particularly in some areas as you correctly point out.
2) Don't agree either.
3) They certainly.
Good night to all.
Ankeny Police Incompetent!
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Well,
1) Not even close to agreeing, but meth is without a question a major issue. Particularly in some areas as you correctly point out.
2) Don't agree either.
3) They certainly.
Good night to all.
Ok - the .0x was an intended exaggeration.
Point being, on the whole the percentages just aren't comparable.
And yes, there's the little commuting thing going on - but typically even so, they go, cook and leave the materials out there.
I'm not sure why we're arguing at this point about how they cook freaking meth. Nobody is denying it gets cooked a gazillion different ways, places, methods, and procedures.
But comparison to DUI isn't really much of a comparision. Sure, in certain counties perhaps. But statewide and nationwide - the numbers just aren't there. Doesn't make it a non-issue. I just can't believe DUI is less of one or get behind the concept that law enforcement doesn't pay enough attention to it.
I don't know why we are arguing it either. I honestly don't care what is worse, DWI or Meth. You attacked me for suggesting a TV show and here we are.
IMO-If the officers are pulling people over for tinted windows and lack of a front plate than they need some staff reductions. Jaywalking is also illegal but I don't see DM police handing out tickets for it. 56 in a 55 zone is also illegal but I don't see people being pulled over for this infraction.
Just like any job, there are good and bad ones. You know that SOME of these cops have "short man syndrome" and the only reason they got into the field is so that they can feel like a man by pulling people over and harassing them. On the other hand I've dealt with a lot of good ones.
BTW-I heard that Iowa is actually considering losing the front plate law like the other 20 states that don't require it.
Just like any job, there are good and bad ones. You know that SOME of these cops have "short man syndrome" and the only reason they got into the field is so that they can feel like a man by pulling people over and harassing them. On the other hand I've dealt with a lot of good ones.
BTW-I heard that Iowa is actually considering losing the front plate law like the other 20 states that don't require it.
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Yesterday, A vehicle was pulled over for speeding. The vehicle travelled a little ways and was in a school zone PICKING UP HIS 5 year old. After handing the officer his license he told the officer he had to watch for his kid. The officer was in the patrol car I am sure doing a wants and warrants while the gentleman waited outside for his kid to show up. When his son approached he put him in the car along with his daughter and sea tbelted him in. It was at this time he noticed the officer out of his car "TRIANGULATING" him with his hand on his revolver!!! When asked why he was acting like that and putting him is a very uncomfortable position the officer replied quote "I thought you were going to run!!!"
He told the officer... " You have my license, I live 1 mile away, you have my plate number, a description of my car, I have my two children in my car with me." Where the hell am I going to go? Then you put your hand on your weapon for what reason..... are you willing to SHOOT someone for SPEEDING? Is it worth someones life to be killed in front of his children for speeding when you already have all the info you need for a proper arrest if necessary?
Attempting to pull a handgun or be ready to at a elementary school in ANKENY is unacceptable to me. Talk about putting all of us in danger, and poor decision making.
I'm confused by this. Does this mean that Ankeny Police shoot people that run, or run after people with their weapon in their hand?
Are you sure it went down like this? This action doesn't seem warranted if the circumstances are truly as you descirbe them.
He told the officer... " You have my license, I live 1 mile away, you have my plate number, a description of my car, I have my two children in my car with me." Where the hell am I going to go? Then you put your hand on your weapon for what reason..... are you willing to SHOOT someone for SPEEDING? Is it worth someones life to be killed in front of his children for speeding when you already have all the info you need for a proper arrest if necessary?
Attempting to pull a handgun or be ready to at a elementary school in ANKENY is unacceptable to me. Talk about putting all of us in danger, and poor decision making.
I'm confused by this. Does this mean that Ankeny Police shoot people that run, or run after people with their weapon in their hand?
Are you sure it went down like this? This action doesn't seem warranted if the circumstances are truly as you descirbe them.
Not on the front you don't. Front being driver and passenger and windshield further down than 3-6 inches (i forget the exact limit).
I didn't realize Ankeny was this rough. I'm surprised SWAT wasn't brought in to deal with this madness. 
[Something very much like this happened to me in Ankeny. One can't go 1 mile without seeing 2-3 cops. It is over policed and pressures to traveling public. Why did the city give a new budget to put 2-3 more on the road for 2009/2010? Waste of tax payers money. Do we need any more ticket writers on Delaware Ave?] Over policing the public to gain revenue. The facts are in the numbers. City of Ankeny : Budget/CIP
The reason for the increase is because the city has decided they want x number of officers per 1000 population, and the city has been growing quickly over the past decade. In order to maintain that percentage, they have to hire additional officers. Personally, I would whether the city spend money on better police/fire protection than to have them spend it on stupidity.
I was reading through this and this caught my eye, particularly since I just picked up a loaner car today. Like nearly all cars here in Texas, all four windows, and rear window are tinted due to the heat we get down here in the summer. My current cars do not have tinted windows.
Does this mean that should I purchase a new car down here, I can't drive up to my house in Wisconsin without risking getting pulled over? Texas state law mandates that all four windows must allow 25% of light in (might be raised to 30 or 35 percent shortly). In Iowa, the front windows must allow 70% of light in.
No, but he better be prepared to shoot some moron who leans inside his car, partially out of view during a traffic stop.
Especially the kind of creep who would speed in a school zone and then take the "victim stance" for being pulled over.
BTW, why is that young people who think smoking dope, underage drinking and having equipment violations like tinted windows are okay are always the ones being harassed? And these little whiners always seem to point to some "greater crime" to justify that their own criminal activities aren't so bad?
Could it be that a major source of crime in Iowa is caused by these lovely young babies of ours? Not all, but the profile fits: The same punk with tint, loud stereo, dope paraphanelia, etc. is rather likely to be into other things.
Frankly, as a grown up adult type, I want that kind of thing slammed, and hard, before it grows up to bigger problems. After all, us grown ups pay the officers' salaries, by and large.
And your ZR 6000 Corvette doesn't fit a front license. My heart just bleeds for you and the tragedy involved with that. I say we not issue tickets, but allow, on first offense, the county to furnish a marginally trained handyman with the most ugly and offensive looking oversized bracket known to mankind.
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You know, I used to drive 9+ hours a day for a living, and I've actually been witnessed 4 real abuses of police power in the enforcement of the law. But I responded to each one calmly and correctly and in 3 out of the 4 it was resolved to my satisfaction and the 4th just wasn't that important.
Despite those cases of misconduct, I still support and respect the police. They are, like us, human and capable of all sorts of wrong. And the system, believe it or not, is set up to correct for this, provided you work it correctly.
BTW - I just won an audit on my Iowa taxes, representing myself via the internet. I'm flying a little high right now on that.:yes:
Despite those cases of misconduct, I still support and respect the police. They are, like us, human and capable of all sorts of wrong. And the system, believe it or not, is set up to correct for this, provided you work it correctly.
BTW - I just won an audit on my Iowa taxes, representing myself via the internet. I'm flying a little high right now on that.:yes:
It's illegal to tint your windows.
It's illegal to not have your license plate on.
I grew up in Ankeny, and still work there, and have never once been pulled over by an Ankeny cop.
But I don't have my windows tinted.
And I put my license plates on the way the law says you have to.
So simple.
It's illegal to not have your license plate on.
I grew up in Ankeny, and still work there, and have never once been pulled over by an Ankeny cop.
But I don't have my windows tinted.
And I put my license plates on the way the law says you have to.
So simple.
But, but, but... Mommy and Daddy said I was SPECIAL! Evidently that means I'm more special than something as unimportant as The Law.
Right?!?
