This whole case has been bizarre, FootballMom. From the circumstances around the disappearance to the suicide and sex abuse/rape charges against five men related/associated with BW and, especially, the way LE has handled all of these events.
Everytime that I start thinking that LE may know more than they are acting like I am reminded that budget shortfalls, the quality of training provided and lack of competitive pay have systematically destroyed the MPD.
A friend of mine, who is a captain with the MPD, stated that a rookie cop in Birmingham, Alabama makes as much as he does and he isn't kidding. Mobile pays the lowest out of the entire state of Alabama. They lose quality officers to surrounding communities because a town of 700 to 1000 pays more than Mobile does. Their budget, lack of, also restrains them in their ability to properly investigate crimes.
I can hardly blame the officers that risk their lives daily but do hold the city leaders accountable. Their irresponsibility has lead the city to this point. And now city leaders have passed a new ban on public smoking, effectively making all public area's (restraunts, parks, roads, sidewalks, office buildings and any other place that the public may gather with exception of bars) a nonsmoking zone, as well as, other ordinances and instructed the Chief to hire additional officers to enforce these new rules without increasing the budget to hire them.
And all of this is going on while, for three months, a young woman has been missing and it appears that nothing will ever be done about it because the easy excuse will always be that she simply ran away and that is why they can't find her. Can't or Won't? That's the real question.
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