Re: Complaints about Ladner swamp brewing in the Delta Optimist
Originally Posted by
silveragent
Police follow department policy. 100% they don't want to be following up on every lost cat, neighbour dispute or other penny ante bs such as some ignoramus not aware that hunting is legal. If you consider this harassment then the people to complain to are the ones creating that policy and ultimately police follow their political masters who people in the city elect. So instead of laying this on the officers, go up the chain and tell Delta council that it is wasting the precious police time. Let the COs or NROs deal with license and permit enforcement. BTW there is also a committee that discusses hunting on Delta and it meets twice yearly - some local groups may already be represented on it. That would be a good place to start.
Officers have discretion when attending and those taking the call also have discretion.
When Karen calls and says: "I see two men with guns in camouflage in the Delta marsh walking into the fields, I don't think thats right", the 911 operator could say:
"Is this between x and y street?"
"Yes"
"Mam, it's a hunting ground and it's ok, it's hunting season between months of x and y"
Now when you get repeat calls about something like that you kind of put it on a list in a database that says for this question, this is the answer.
You warn operators about frequent calls between months x and y in area a and b.
So operators, who also don't know hunting seasons, gun laws, etc can quickly answer those questions.
Some people compain about robots taking their jobs saying "Robots can't think and make decisions".
We already have robots who can't think and make decisions.
I could have swallowed your answer without cheweing 50 years ago, but today after 50 seasons of this, not so much.
But because we don't have the CPU to think and elect people who think, it will be much easier for city councils to ban the activity altogether to prevent waste of resources and constant complaints.
All anti hunting groups have to do is increase the number of calls to police.
911 operators have to answer every call, but they don't have to dispatch police on every call.
Most people don't even understand that we will lose many gun ranges in LML in the next 10 years.
They are all under threat.
1. Human over population
2. Government burden and overreach