"Alan Horowitz" alanh@infi.net wrote:
It appears that someone has figured out that medium-sized jurisdictions don't want to be left out of the trendiness. And has put together a product that can be peddled at the trade shows where Police Chiefs go.
I recall reading that there's something like 25,000 different police departments in America. It's a sizeable market. And a very politically correct one, right now.
Do these managers _need_ this stuff? Well, did they _need_ all those black-ninja hollywood flavored SWAT uniforms?
Now, if they could just get a few more PC-of-the-month phraseologies into the title of their product, they'd sell twice as many. Start with "anti-deadbeat-dad software", maybe. "Pro Diversity". "Environmentally Friendly Software".
Is America great, or what?
You bet. PC stuff is essential. Here in Tucson, the cops came up with a novel, simple, cheap, and efficacious method to determine cocaine HCl usage: Put a strip of Scotch (TM) tape across the nostrils of a suspectee/apprehendee and see if there's any toot on it. Local judges disallowed this procedure because, in the absence of a substantial presence of African-Americans in the "community" (they comprise <2% of local population), almost all of those arrested were Hispanic-surnamed Latinos.