For the short time I've been here, I've heard the rumor over and over and over again that the cops are part of the crime population here in LT. In GENERAL I tend to believe, "Where there's smoke, there's fire".
ONE of the stories I've heard was of someone who got robbed two or three times in the same week so they set up a guillotine-type device to cut the hand of the person that was busting in the front door screen. It worked, and the next day one of the cops was MIA because of a missing hand.
In a town such as LT, where everybody seems to know everybody (I, in fact, am known to the cops in spite of my EXTREMELY limited dealings with them, I think I've been in the police station twice in two years, neither time for any criminal activity), I would think that if they REALLY wanted to stop drug activity and house thefts, they could. (At least to a major extent).
You know who was surprised when the rumors circulated that there was now video footage of cops robbing a hotel?
Nobody.
Like I said, "Where there's smoke, there's fire."
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