okcknight

okcknight t1_jcn5nor wrote

Good. The Facebook posts defending this behavior are gross. Just because we have homicides doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enforce reckless driving laws. Mind boggling

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okcknight t1_ja3utv4 wrote

I get it, but aren’t those needs reflected in the 400 staffing number? If six vacancies is resulting in this much overtime, maybe they need to raise that number. But I think the article is giving us a 2022 overtime number with 2023 vacancies, which are currently much lower than they were from what I understand.

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okcknight t1_ja0on7d wrote

Police Vacancy: %21 (157/755)

Police OT: 6.2 MM

Police Budget (2022): 97.8MM

Percentage OT to Budget: %6.3

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Fire Vacancy: 1.5% (6/401)

Fire OT: 4.7MM

Fire Budget: 62MM

Percentage OT to Budget: %7.5

Something I found interesting: despite having a 1.5% vacancy rate, the fire department is paying %7.5 of its total budget in overtime. Meanwhile the police vacancy is 14 times greater and running at approximately 6.3% of their total budget, less than Fire percentage-wise. I wonder what the reason for that is. I would expect the fire OT numbers to be much lower considering their staffing.

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okcknight t1_j9fyhn2 wrote

Most street level dealers of hard drugs have been arrested many times. They know the game, they know not to walk around with literal pounds of illegal substances (unlike Mr. Happy Trees) That way when you get caught, you get a slap on the wrist for simple possession and you’re right back on the corner next week.

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okcknight t1_j6f3d0r wrote

At the root of poverty are toxic behaviors that can’t simply be addressed by throwing resources at the problem. This is why poor people who win the lottery generally end up dead or broke. Not saying people don’t need resources, but it’s much more nuanced than that.

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okcknight t1_j6efdy0 wrote

You can have all the “community outreach” you want, but this mostly comes down to poor parenting and environment. When you have children growing up in concentrated poverty where their role models are gang members and drug dealers, mom and dad aren’t around, no one to teach coping skills, impulse control, anger management, nothing will change.

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