A second thought a second time

For a short while last night there was a post about the Cobourg Police Issue, but it was so faulty I took it down, so here is a replacement.

There will be two arguments that proponents will get exercised about: one is the financial side where all kinds of numbers and comparisons will be made to bolster whichever side you are on. The faultline will be just how much money is going to be saved. The second one will be a level of service argument. Put bluntly we now get to see the police whenever we call, the OPP model will be to only respond to certain incidents and all the others will require a phone call to Smiths Falls com centre who will inform you to phone in a statement and the police may respond.

On the numbers side try this












Just an estimate but not far off and it shows that by hacking the Service to pieces and transferring major administration to the OPP Human resources department in Orillia you can save tons of money.

The major arguments will take place about the levels of service that will be delivered, I have it on good authority that that the major difference in the level of service is that the OPP disregards crimes of a low monetary or nuisance nature. So if your lawnmower gets stolen then you phone in a report, as you do in Hamilton Twp for instance. After a while the culture of disregarding minor crime in an urban setting leads to vandalism and disrespect for the law, "Why obey the law if the police are not going to enforce the small stuff"?

In an urban setting it is the small stuff that makes communities!