Huh?

[clarencebunsen]

A police substation on Varick St?

Minutes from the Police Station and used one night a week? (Plus St. Patrick's Day, I assume).

Here's an idea to help the city get rid of excess money. RV's are easy to buy right now. Get the biggest one possible (at least 2 bedrooms). Equip one bedroom as an interview room and the other as a first aid room. The living room will become the communications hub. Get decals for the side that read "UPD Mobile Command Tactical Center"

Imagine the fun to be had driving that baby around the streets of Utica with the red lights flashing!

[dgriffin]

That's why we like fire trucks!
But here's a cheaper version.

[Clipper]

I've seen that ambulance. I think it was in West Virginia. When they get a call, the guy puts the little bubble light on the roof, and uses a spray bottle to spray turpentine on the little puckered parts under the tails of the oxen. Wow, can they run when they want to!!!!

Kinda like riding in my pickup. Get in, sit down, shut up and HANG ON!!!

[Ralph]

They have a mobile Tach bus, been using it for years now at events like this. All they need is a Paramedic unit on standby and they're all set.

Meantime we have been BEGGING for one over in Cornhill for years and have been told it would never happen.

I guess giving aid to the drunks over there is more important than ridding us of the drug dealers, hookers and shootists that work here on a daily basis.

Talk about a slap in the face.

[dgriffin]

Not that it never happens, but a strange thought just occurred to me. Maybe the drug dealers have begun to pay their income and property taxes, whereas the rest of us can no longer afford to. That would explain a lot.

[Clipper]

Didn't they just open a police precinct over on James St., with a recreation room attached?

[wilum47]

Jun 27, 2008 12:38:09 GMT -5 @dgriffin said:

That's why we like fire trucks!
But here's a cheaper version.

Keep telling Stittville to update!

[dan]

OOOhh, fightin' words. See if they come to Barnes Ave again :-)

[wilum47]

Yeah, they will, they're good sports. Besides, that was their first invite down there.

[concerned]

They are still working on the James St sub station. They do a little work on it maybe once or twice a week if at all.

[Clipper]

Gee if they get the two substations up and running, they can leave just a dispatcher, a jailer, and a desk SGT at Oriskany St, and operate out of the two precincts. No reason for the cars to be coming and going from downtown when they have a "headquarters" in the areas that they are assigned to patrol. Put the cars and the manpower where the crime is, and visibility and activity will deter SOME crime, however slight.

People think Varick St, and they think bars and party people. That is not where the crime in West Utica is. The whole stink over the Varick St bar scene, and brewery sponsored activity, is over blown.

Put the precinct in the Hemstrought's building or put a trailer on the Bossert site. Varick St. is not a high crime area. It simply keeps the drinkers concentrated in one area.

It could have evolved differently. 8 or 10 bars could have opened on Genessee St near the uptown area, and then the concentration of partying would be in S. Utica.

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Update: James St police sub station I heard is now a community gathering place. Or something to that nature in the hood.