Albuquerque mayor calls for 100 more cops

The mayor of Albuquerque's call for 100 more cops on the streets becomes a red meat issue in the race to see whether he'll stay on the job, or turn over the keys to a new mayor.

[Texas]

You can't even handle the cops you have now......RJ, nice folks in the department.....like Levi Chavez???? Is he sleeping with Marty to stay on the payroll???

[Tehran on the Rio Grande]

I guess he needs more body-guards, and more detectives than the 13 he already has working on the Nuisance Abatement Team, the bird-dog of Albuquerque builders, developers, realtors, and private real-estate speculators. We need BETTER police officers, not more of them. We are spending MILLIONS every year to settle claims against cops that go wrong. This isn't a slam against all Albuquerque Police Officers, but they sure do seem to have a LOT of bad apples in their barrel. If we used the same standard for declaring a private home, bar or hotel/motel a Public Nuisance to the Albuquerque Police Department, we would have had to close down their location at 401 Roma NW just by the sheer number of crimes officers commit.

[grumpy old man]

why has it taken so many years for him to decide on this....maybe an election.

[Stock Options]

Does the Mayor have big stock ownership in Dunkin' Donuts?

(he-he).

[sam]

Chavez should have been OUSTED long ago, but if he gets his wish he will just RAISE taxes to get the money he needs, its an OBAMA way

[RandyR]

Again?

[John]

Stimulus funds NOT intended for additional police forces... Just more BS Democratic misuse of stimulus funds and purely re-election antics.

[Ret-Cop]

Stock Options wrote:

Does the Mayor have big stock ownership in Dunkin' Donuts?
(he-he).

Ha ha ha! That's a new one! I never heard that joke before!
Brilliant!
Cops & donuts! You're a scream!
Stop before I break a stitch!

[RandyR]

Ret-Cop wrote:

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Ha ha ha! That's a new one! I never heard that joke before!
Brilliant!
Cops & donuts! You're a scream!
Stop before I break a stitch!

Did you use Dunkin's free wireless to post that???

[Love it]

Thankfully our Mayor is responding to our needs. I think he may just pull of this third term yet.

[Daniel]

I don't think more Police Officers are the answer to crime issues. I believe the mayor and council need to focus their efforts on economic development, job creation, education and job/career training. Why hire more cops to make more arests and fill the west-side jail. This becomes an even greater burned on the Tax Payer...

[CornDaddy]

Love it wrote:

Thankfully our Mayor is responding to our needs. I think he may just pull of this third term yet.

He promised this in his 1st term, never happened.
He promised it 8 years ago, never happened.
He promised it 4 years ago, never happened.
What makes you think anything different would occur this time around?

[dodger]

Stock Options wrote:

Does the Mayor have big stock ownership in Dunkin' Donuts?
(he-he).

Yea probably but I think that Marty wants to give Dunkin Donuts and TD's more "stimulus"

[cgg]

Come on, Marty. At least put some icing and sprinkles on that load of bulls*** before you ask us to eat it.

[RandyR]

CornDaddy wrote:

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He promised this in his 1st term, never happened.
He promised it 8 years ago, never happened.
He promised it 4 years ago, never happened.
What makes you think anything different would occur this time around?

He is bound to 'mean' it this time???

[Ret-Cop]

RandyR wrote:

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Did you use Dunkin's free wireless to post that???

Hoo hoo hoo! Ha ha ha!
Oh, boy!
They just keep on a comin'
You guys have nothin' on Letterman-
he doesn't have an imagination either!

[Romero is my hero-]

Ret-Cop wrote:

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Hoo hoo hoo! Ha ha ha!
Oh, boy!
They just keep on a comin'
You guys have nothin' on Letterman-
he doesn't have an imagination either!

Go eat a donut.

[Just left of right]

John wrote:

Stimulus funds NOT intended for additional police forces... Just more BS Democratic misuse of stimulus funds and purely re-election antics.

I interpreted it to mean that because we are receiving so much stimulus money for other areas, he thinks we'll have enough to pay for the increase. He's only bringing it up, though, because he's running....sigh....again!

[Ret-Cop]

Romero is my hero- wrote:

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Go eat a donut.

If a politician is your idea of a hero, drink some more kool aid.

Obviously since you can still post, you haven't had enough yet.

[Romero is my hero-]

Ret-Cop wrote:

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If a politician is your idea of a hero, drink some more kool aid.
Obviously since you can still post, you haven't had enough yet.

That, was so funny.