Greybeard wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2019 11:27 am
"Am I the only one who thinks this "police state" situation is getting out of hand? Am I being unreasonable to think this is just getting crazy?"
If the cop car that you saw happens to service "Lantana" - and they are paying for it - then I see it is probably a good thing. For many years, that community (right next to our gun range) was theoretically serviced by the SD - who was already spread pretty thin at times. Local police departments such as Argyle, Bartonville, Double Oak and/or Highland Village were having to be the FIRST responders to 911 calls and/or backup to the (often solo) deputy. Lots of risk and zero payment from an affluent community that is now up to 12,000 people in cookie cutter houses on postage stamp lots. People with lots of "domestic issues" that were being subsidized by the residents of local towns and cities that DO have a regular police force.
I don’t understand why an agency would respond to a call outside of their normal jurisdiction. I have called for LEOs twice and response time was 45 and 60 minutes. I was services by a State Trooper once and a Sheriffs Deputy once. I live out in the country by choice and I don’t expect to be serviced by a surrounding Police Department.