LMPD officers will now begin patrolling in pairs

Sounds like to me the poster was saying we should be better prepared through training as well as with equipment. How is that "skeeeered?" Chance favors only the prepared mind... stated by Louis Pasteur - Google the name.

To call you clueless would be giving you too much credit. There are a lot of little fish in this little pond who've been writing tickets and citing shoplifters most of your career, but think they know it all, so don't feel like you're alone. Maybe you will be Chief 1 day if you kiss up to the right people and hand out enough balloons at the Mayor's events.