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Can't live with police, can't live without 'em

The recent calls for more police officers downtown are hardly surprising.

More traffic equals more people and more people equal more opportunities for foolishness, especially on the weekends. And especially when alcohol enters the equation.

There's no small irony here. Part of downtown's problem is its newfound prosperity. Time was when there wasn't anyone there to create mischief.

Another irony: The requests for a more visible police presence downtown used to be a PR move driven more by perception than reality.

Now the need is real.

One final irony: On today -- the same day the News & Record story about the need for more police downtown ran -- the school board was mulling whether to pull SROs from middle schools.

Can't live with 'em ...

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Sue said:

Fewer police. One or two horses. With police on top. It's a very effective big-city downtown crowd-maintenance tool and it commands attention (and makes not just a few friends). Gotta think out of the box, or on top of the horse.

Allen Johnson said:

Sue: I think Mike Barber has the same idea about cops on horses. It certainly could be different, at least round here. And kinda cool.
I wonder, however, where they'd keep the horses and who would tend to them.

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