Recent,

Amazingly, you seem to come up with statistics that boggle the mind. When was the last time a murder, or MURDERS as you put it, occurred on DART property? Where do you get information? Apparently, you get them from thin air. There have only been a couple of homicides on DART property in its tenure, and DART Police and Dallas Police solved those cases. Apparently, you did not get the email on those. Sorry, next time those departments will drop what they are doing and shoot you a line.

I assure you that the DART Police Department rank and file, as well as the rank and file of every other police agency in America, are aware of their staffing troubles and are working diligently to correct the situation. Maybe you have not noticed (how, I don’t know with your knowledge of EVERYTHING) that almost every police agency in the area constantly advertises for officers. They are all understaffed. And, just a little tidbit of information, most seasonal functions, such as the State Fair, are not police function. Those officers are their as Off-Duty Police Employment or they are paid overtime. But with your research, I am sure you already knew that.

While your writing is sometime eloquent and entertaining, I find it repulsive that you do not do your research. Creative writing 101 was good for you. It gave you a voice. Obviously, you have chosen to utilize your talents in a manner that shows the good people of Dallas that you are about as uninformed as... oh I don’t know...J. Schutze, Dallas Observer, who likened the DART Police to Nazis, and sensationalized something that occurs in cities everywhere. Each day, in cities all across this wonderful nation, police officers encounter some idiot that doesn't want to go to jail on a minor warrant. Said idiot then resists or runs from the police. Said idiot then gets a trip to jail, sometimes via the hospital because he resisted to the point that an officer had to use more force to subdue him. Sorry, went on a rant.

The bottom line here is that your words slander good people. All the while, you just keep typing away about any little thing that crosses your mind, with very little research. Even a Google search now and then would not hurt. Funny thing is that you miss the good things that these agencies do. With a little research, you might find out that a DART Police Officer saved a man's life just a few weeks back when his heart stopped at the DART Headquarters downtown. You might even find out that another DART Police Officer saved another man's life by pulling him out of a burning vehicle. Furthermore, you might find out that DART Police Officers have caught various suspects trying to use the trains and buses after committing their crimes. There are far more "incidents" of that nature than you will ever know. Or maybe you don’t want to know. If you knew that, your stories would not have any significance to anyone.

Sorry for the rant, just tired of the B.S.

[Ed Note: I really want to leave this to you and Recent Coin as much as possible. But can you point me to where DART is advertising for police officers? With respect to Schutze and the story of the guy hauled off to jail for jaywalking ("Bus Gestapo"), I have to side with Schutze. It was a bit excessive and the situation could have been handled much better.]