Eye On Englewood

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Good Friday, might not have been so good for "Holly" who got a ticket within the neighborhood of Englewood High School for smoking tobacco.
This was the day that poor Holly fell into the Department of Regulatory Agencies, and she got regulated. The fishbowl has all the elements of a phoenix rising.

A school of police cars barricaded the street, a host of police surrounded and ogled a curb-full of high school beggars. There these suspects sat on their seats for smoking on lunch break.

Follow up:

I watched as the police officers frisked the kids and quizzed them before sending them on their way. Except for poor Holly. She forgot to swallow.

It is illegal not only to buy smokes when you are under the age of 18, but it's also illegal to blow a ring.

I've been wondering lately what police officers spend their time doing, I mean besides eating donuts.

Yes, I realize they ticket speeders, but after all, Englewood is getting photo cameras for that kind of thing. Will cops be needed for their services afterward?

When there is a murder, the County Coroner's personnel takes care of the dead body. If the person survives, an ambulance takes care of the victim, but just try to get a brave member of the Englewood police force to protect you as the criminal is about to assault.

TIP. If you hear someone breaking and entering, don't admit nothing has happened yet. Scream your head off, and maybe they will show up before it's over.

They have no real duty to prevent a crime. Peace keeping is sort of a notion moms teach to their young-uns. That way, if the young-uns learn respect for the uniform, they will help keep peace themselves.
It's a psychological peace.

In fact, the kind of duties performed by the police are to obey their City Managers, hope to God they're not crooked or mistaken, and to wrap crime scenes with yellow tape.

They are regulators of regulated substances, but for some reason those substance continue to find their way onto the street.

Though you have a protective Order from a court of competent jurisdiction, one with a notary seal, the best you can hope to get from an Englewood police is a drive by your house during daylight.

Don't arrange for them to stop there in the evening to assess a strange license plate loitering nearby. They may be too busy with speeders after work.

Have you ever called on the police for help with vandalism issue or theft? Neither one of these reports will go further than the trash can. CSI Crime Scene Investigation is a television fable.

The police will not hear a complaint about misconduct of city officials either, this I learned from an Englewood neighbor and verified.

I can understand this because there would be an obvious ethical conflict. To ask an official to investigate his own boss? Not happening.

So what do Englewood officers really do for a living?

Well, they collect taxes from careless drivers whether or not property damage or any suffering occurred. They wrap yellow tape around danger, they dress up and look cool in their uniforms, carry bad guns and drive black cars with official insignias. And, of course they gang up on mommy and daddy's little Holly and regulate her for smoking a regulated substance.