re: #181 wrenchwench

I was walking to work this morning and a police car stopped right in front of me, the officer got out, and said he was just randomly stopping people and asking questions. He asked where I live (I was a block and a half from home) wrote down my address and my name, asked whether I had any concerns about the neighborhood. I told him about the annoying chihuahuas across the street, he wrote that down too. I asked him what was up with randomly stopping people. He said it was community policing. He’s getting to know the area better. He looked about 20.

If I weren’t a gray-haired lady with a perfectly clean record (I think the juvy record is sealed) I would have been nervous as heck.

I think he’s a newbie or an auxiliary, being asked to get to know a neighborhood by canvassing it. So he’s not looking for criminals, he’s profiling a community. Oh, a lot of people find x a problem here, etc. They want to hear about stuff from the people in the community. I think it’s better than the cops riding around in closed cars, being an occupation army. Better that than the armed neighborhood militias. Ugh.