Serve, Protect, Patrol; Abolish Number Games Policing

     The purpose of police work is to serve and protect. Patrol is the bread and butter for achieving this purpose. The purpose of police work is not to go out and make arrests and generate numbers (including numbers for traffic violations, street stops or anything else).
      During the course of patrol, arrests will be made when necessary. Number games have done nothing but erode public confidence, lead to a poor work ethic, shoddy police work, and a culture of laziness.
      If reporters were not an often lazy bunch, looking for provocative and easy stories, they might have stopped this nonsense long ago. They probably are clueless about what number games are even about, and if they know, they are too lazy or self absorbed to care.
      A sea change in police work means putting emphasis on patrol - by car, and equally important on foot (cops on foot walking beats is true community policing), and at times on bicycle- and ridding departments of paper pushing bureaucrats, layers of useless brass and supervisors, and ensuring supervisors are on the streets actually working.
      Police departments should not be sanctuaries for politically connected clout heavy incompetents.
      Serve, protect, patrol. It is that simple. Not the convoluted nonsense that became the fictitious community policing that supported new layers of bureaucrats and elitists.
      To the man that was supposed to be in charge of community policing, and then became the head of another major city police department: How could you not know that the intact numbers game that neither you or anyone else opposed meant community policing was fiction? All community policing did was create a new patronage army, reward political hacks, and help elect undeserving politicians.
      How many high level police officials, mayors, high level city officials, and others knew that people were getting arrested, and certain police were encouraged to make arrests, simply to generate high numbers of arrests, as though quantity of arrests actually meant something. All of this at the expense of patrol, the public, and actually serving and protecting.
       Police reform does not come from serving the political agenda of those that want to believe or pretend to believe that police are nothing more than a pack of racist abusers. These so called reformers and so called reformer politicians are nowhere to be found as the body count rises in high crime neighborhoods.
      How something so simple became so twisted and complicated is beyond imagination - The purpose of police work is to serve and protect. Patrol is the fundamental way to achieve this. Number games must be exposed and made extinct.