Northwest Indiana Discussion

According to Mirage and Max you have no rights, unless you want to join their clubhouse and be a cop hater.

My answer is I don't care to pay twice for the same government service.

Besides that I think this sheriff does not handle his budgets with all due diligence. But have you read me running down the HPD? No, you haven't. I'm sure you've read some praise though. But yes I have issues with the sheriff's dept, or more accurately with how the boss spends money and charges additional fees and mismanages the jail.

So everything is a giant conspiracy according to proud pig

All his response sme me laugh so hard I almost split in half


And here I though comdedy was a lost art form


I find it hard to believe proud pig believes what he types, but scary thing is, he does

I don't see why $100 Eviction Charge is a Bad Idea. All the landlord has to do is attached the charge to the tenant when filing notice for back rent, or take it out of the security deposit. I rather pay the money, then have the slum tenant live one more minute under my roof.
Oh, and by the way if anyone of you wants to hear loud music that makes your house rattle send me your address and I'll pass it along to my SOB of a neighbor. I'm sure he and his friends would love to come in your subdivision and make your life a living HELL.

Yea right. Like most landlords ever see a dime of that back rent. Then there's the court costs. I think it's a good thing for both parties to have the cops there to keep order during the eviction process. Their time is already paid for in property taxes. As for your neighbor why don't you call the cops? Or are you afraid they'll want you to pay a fee to come out and measure sound levels?

I have called the police, unfortunately by the time they get here the stereos are turned off. The police say they can't do anything unless they hear the noise. I think they have a police scanner in their garage. But that is okay because one of these days they will get what is coming to them. And yes, I have talked to the mother but she thinks her son isn't doing anything wrong. I think she is afraid of him and her husband.

Eviction notices are delivered by the Sheriffs Department not local police. So the money goes to the Sheriffs Department. I still don't see any problem with paying the fee.

Actually I do believe what I say and stand behind it.. This was a GREAT response there Mike, I'm impressed! So much for having an intelligent "discussion" w/ divided opinions.

Obviously you rent. Are you a "slum lord" Mirage? I typed a great number of responses to you on this topic and so far I got no reply. I don't get how you feel this "civil service" is owed to you at the cost of the taxpayers. In one breath you want the Sheriff to cut cost and in another you want these types of costly services provided to a person in a PRIVATE business making a profit. In other words you want to utilize the police to strong arm your business problems. I don't care how it has been done in the past; this is not what the taxpayers should be paying for. It is also not the taxpayer’s problem how the landlord comes out financially. If I am a business man and enter into a private contract with someone and that someone screws me it's a civil matter. I can not use the police to bail me out. It's that simple. It's like you say to me or the police.... If you don't like your job get out, find another. If you don't like being a landlord, sell.

Blame police public relations, an over burdened justice system, the prison industrial complex and the BS "tough on crime" (propaganda) legislators they've bought and paid for.

The Prison-industrial complex
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The prison-industrial complex refers to interest groups that represent organizations that do business in correctional facilities, such as prison guard unions, construction companies, and surveillance technology vendors, and to the belief that these actors may be more concerned with making profits than actually rehabilitating criminals or reducing crime rates.
USA incarceration timeline.


Allegedly, this desire for monetary gain has led to the rise of the Prison industry. Writing for The Atlantic Monthly in December 1998, Eric Schlosser said that "The 'prison-industrial complex' is not only a set of interest groups and institutions; it is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of safety and public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass tough-on-crime legislation — combined with their unwillingness to disclose the external and social costs of these laws — has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison-industrial_complex

Yeah, if we all became tea totaling, government/corporate butt kissing, puritans we wouldn't have these problems now, would we?

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.
I see your day is on the horizon pee pee.

Yeah, instead they do very little for We the People. They seldom, if ever, respond fast enough to catch a crime in progress. They won't investigate anything below a felony, they don't look for missing children at all (unless they're rich and white) but act like they do. By law, they have absolutely no responsibility to protect you and only, by law, if they witness a crime in progress do they have to react and arrest anyone.

They don't constitutionally have any business bothering anyone who isn't bothering someone else or their property, but they do it all the time.

They serve and protect business, raise funds for the municipalities they work in, they write reports, they write "field observation" reports (my opinion of this is they are spying on you and keeping unconstitutional records on innocent citizens if they have no evidence that you have broken any laws), They have become militarized pawns of the federal government.

You guys made the bed, now sleep in it. You want something done about the public's perception of your profession, then do something to change it because they are right! Many of your departments have become little more a powerful, armed, criminal street thugs with the support of a fascist government. A perfect start would be taking down that Blue Wall of Silence.

Common thug? I am hardly common. If there were more of me, there would be less of you. See how they feel about those who merely stand up to them by flexing the Constitution? I've had more run-ins with the police than I deserve, mostly for merely standing up to them by flexing the Constitution.

It's easier for me to b!tch and complain about the simple law than to follow it? Sorry I stepped on that white man's shadow, looked in his eyes for more than 3 seconds and sat in the front of the bus.

I've been told "If you don't like the law, change it." I have been fighting the BS drug war for years and have found the main opposition is, not the public who can be persuaded with common sense, but those who profit most and whose jobs are made easier and more secure because of it. They shouldn't even be allowed to take part in the discussion.

Your response is that I "b!tch and complain about the simple law." Look Pig, you have forgotten who you work for? Oh yeah, see above.

"tough on crime"

Whatever you think about the national effort against drugs I think the criminals in Lake County, IN are actually criminals even by your definition Maxx. The fact that the county jail is overcrowded is a big problem. The irony is there's plenty more bad guys who should be serving time and still more that only serve a fraction of what they deserve and are back out on the streets partly because there's no room to house them.