Indianapolis police shootings highlight balance between safety, cost

ummmmm ur an idiot.... I am a veteran and can retire any day.. I patrol my beat, makes tons of runs,make lots of arrest, take countless reports, make runs on others beat and run radar an 30-60 minutes a day.. Officers almost never make runs on my beat and if they do its because a domestic with an arrest or 10-50 etc...... not because I write a speeding ticket you fool. So all hard working tax payers shouldnt pay for their tags or insurance eitber right? U r a fool.

The nose dive for morale began when the departments were merged, but it wasn't merger that did it. It was the way they handed control of districts, now called divisions, over to the Lt's who happened to get in with the political in-crowd. The creation of the Major position has been the downfall of LMPD. It was a lot harder to fire a Captain and the division commanders are now just puppets of the Chief's office. The Chief's office also had more separation from the Mayor. Now they might as well put the Chief's office in city hall. Take a look at the well run departments around the country. All of them have a clear separation between politics and policing, and people aren't as afraid to tell the boss to go pound sand if he's telling them to do something stupid.