In my little podunk town in Mid-Michigan, population 250,000 or so, there are plenty of cop cars roaming the streets. The population is dwindling, yet you still see the cop cars out and about, looking for speeders, you name it.
When I went to college in Ann Arbor, I noticed the police presence was considerably less. You'd see a cop riding around on a bike on campus now and then, and it was rare to see a cop car driving around town. The police were never intimidating. Now in East Lansing, home to MSU, the police were almost paramilitary, riding two to a car, looking for troublemakers...
Why do some towns have more of a police presence than others? Is it a liberal/conservative thing? Ann Arbor is liberal, yet it had crime that would warrant a cop presence.
I've been to a couple other countries too, and it seems to me that America has more of a police presence than any other country.
Does anyone know why?
2006-08-01
18:36:58
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