Comments on: A Night In The Life of A Harrisburg Police Officer- Conclusion

By: sneezy

sneezy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:18 +0000

Well done! I hope that people will read this and understand that the police are hardworking people who frankly are treated poorly and who are not given the respect they deserve. May be if more people did what you did, there would be no budget reductions made at the expense of our police.

Kudos to you, Mike for opening peoples’ eyes!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:25:33 +0000

Yeah, but I wouldn’t want to imagine being hauled out bed buck assed nekkid at 4 or 5 am by SWAT:)

By: jerseym

jerseym — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:25:07 +0000

@S-10 : Ya know- I actually saw that dude’s truck earlier that day and thought the same thing.

@Rebecca: I think that as long as you don’t threaten to kill anyone, you can sleep in the nude all you’d like.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:01:36 +0000

I really enjoyed your article.

When I see the SWAT raids that take place during the middle of the night on TV, I always think, “I have GOT to stop sleeping in the nude!” What a rude awakening that would be;)

By: LeonJackson

LeonJackson — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:12:23 +0000

Well done. I’ve enjoyed reading of your experience.

My one point, although slightly cynical, is why does the Penbrook PD need our officers? Penbrook has unilaterally time and time again declared it’s independence from the city of Harrisburg. We are strained enough for resources that we don’t need to be sending our valuable men and women into a place that is pompous enough to declare that they don’t need us or want to be aligned with us.

Harrisburg and the greater Harrisburg area would be much better served for regional growth if little “boroughs” like this were annexed by the city. We would receive Federal funding for being a city of truly the size that we are…not just the 47k on the books. In my travels, you see “cities” that are 200-500k that are 30 miles wide. They are by no means anywhere close to the population of HBG metro, yet they receive Federal money because of this. In addition, the pooled resources that these “cities” share and the reduced amount of repetitive city government positions also creates opportunities for saving. Finally, under one regional “city” umbrella, planning for logical growth because much, much easier.

Thanks again for an informative piece. I enjoyed reading it.