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Hello again. Sorry it has been so long since I journaled. I have been busy getting sick again. My nose was so runny at work that I brought a box of tissues, the lotion kind. I like those better than ordinary tissues that fall apart up wetness. I read a newspaper on Saturday. I got the impression that my neck of the woods is the perfect place for a crime.
The main heading on the front page was Overcrowded Jails. Currently overflow is sent to surrounding states' jails. Now taxpayers have to vote on a new jail proposed to house all the current offenders. Problem is the number of methamphetamine makers and smokers keeps going up, not down. The cost of this new jail is more than I will ever make in my lifetime. It would include a special area for drug rehab offenders. Though there was concern about the beds for the rehab would end up in the general population. Another story on the front page explained how many drug offenders are released before they under go treatment for their addictions because the waiting list is so long to get into the program. These drug addicts usually end up back in jail within a week and are put back on the list. One man whose family was victimized said criminals should be locked up forever so they don't commit more crimes. Well sir, these criminals are required to have food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and excerise at the taxpayer expense. So that philosophy does not work in the judicial system.
Yet another story I found most amusing on the same front page had Bush declaring budget cuts on crime because the crime rate is not rising, or something like that. The next page had a whole page story about the rising population of the suburbs and the rising crime that goes with it. In fact the police departments share officers with other suburbs and Des Moines. It said a murdered couple in a suburb was being investigated by one detective, the murderer has not been found and the department is waiting for more evidence to appear. TV shows have more than one person investigating a crime. Guess they don't simulate real life here. Even worse is the pile of cases that are not even looked at because murders and robberies are most important.
That I believe. A few months ago my coworker's truck along with 3 others were broken into and everything stolen, even the owner's manuel and insurance card. My coworker was the only one who had fingerprints on his truck. The police refused to dust the prints because they are so backed up with murders and robberies that they won't even be looking for the people who did this. My coworker said that his mother was a cop back home, he will get the prints himself and mail them to the police. I would not tell my coworker the crime rate is down.
I guess this means the ones who are stupid enough to get caught along with meth makers will be shipped to Missouri. Though not all. A former car rental person next door was arrested for dealing drugs (her husband is a drug dealer with a good lawyer who got him off scott free). My coworkers and fellow people next door believe in her innocence. And they are upset at her public defender attorney she has had before with drug selling charges (this time is her 3rd offense). This woman has been sitting in a holding cell in the county courthouse for over a year waiting for her sentence to be declared, so this year does not count as time served. She was found guilty a year ago. Maybe she is not in a prison because there is no more room. Just a guess.
Even funnier still was a small article of a town in Iowa advertising a $20 incentive off their utility bill if they move their family in that town and enroll their children in the town's school to raise the town's small population. After what I just read about rising populations bring rising crime occurances, I would not go paying people to move to my town. I read last summer how many people from Chicago are moving to smaller Iowa communities because the welfare, public assistance, and public housing lists are shorter. I think the governor needs to rethink his strategies in encouraging people to move here. We have enough welfare recipients and criminals already.
He needs to import business. Though that has not gone well since I read about businesses taking money from a fund to pay businesses to bulid companies here and employ Iowa workers and then when the new building is complete, the company moves its people and Iowa taxpayers' money out into another state leaving the new empty building behind in Iowa. In my opinion, desperate times call for better ideas, not desperate measures. Post later. Bye!