Adios, crime!
HPD Chief Harold Hurtt’s proposals for new gold badges and TaserCams haven’t done much to stem the tide of violence in the Bayou City, so the Chief is bringing out the big guns.
Citizens of Houston, behold the Winnebago of Justice:
Officers will dispatch a mobile command unit into the areas which need it the most and they’ll make arrests all night and all day.
Cops arresting bad guys? Even at night? It’s just crazy enough to work! Of course, it’s unclear where the officers will come from, considering HPD’s manpower shortage, but that’s a minor detail now that we have the Winnebago of Justice.
Channel 2 has more about the fearsome crime-stomping vehicle:
U-net, which stands for Unified Neighborhood Enhancement Team, is a police station on wheels where officers can access information and process criminals.
Officials said the mobile command post would direct logistics for more efficient crime fighting in three southwest Houston police districts that have experienced the largest rise in violent crime.
Gosh, how did this town ever function without the Winnebago of Justice? I shudder to think of the Dark Ages when we put actual cops on the streets, armed only with their wits, police cruisers, sidearms, shotguns, Tasers, handcuffs, batons, radios, computers and bulletproof vests.
[Hat-tip: blogHOUSTON]
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That Winnebago looks like something that should have been destroyed in a hurricane, tornado or a redneck divorce.
Hell I feel safer already.
Heavily stocked with Shipley products.
This is a joke…..right?
The photo is a joke.
The story is true.
The police chief is a very unfunny joke.
Just like Brown’s “neighborhood policing” never got off the ground. It was idiotic. Why put police officers in neighborhood store fronts? Did Brown really think that the criminals were just going to stop by before they committed a crime? Absolutely hogwash. What HPD needs is more officers on the streets (where the crime happens, duh).
the only thing the storefronts were good for was to make it easier to get an accident report form for when an illegal sideswiped you and then drove off so you can turn it in to get your car fixed by your uninsured motorist ins. coverage.
I had to do that a couple times…..
Do you think they’d like a loan of my gas barbecue?
Ror
#6
Yeah, but it took a lot of officers from the streets and crime actually went up. Besides, reports at thse neighborhood sites can be made to civilians with a sargeant overseeing. Civilians were doing a fine job of manning our jail cells until our police chief said, no more - they will only be manned by officers! More officers off the street doing desk jobs. Pitiful.
It worked for Sgt. Hulka and John Winger in “Stripes”…
http://homepage.mac.com/fouralarm/.Movies/stripes.mov