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If that is what people want for their neighborhood, okay. Don’t talk, don’t cooperate. But then the complaints come out that it is someone else’s fault. The city, the police, the mayor or whoever, won’t protect the community. The answer, a simple, no, you won’t protect yourselves. The city can offer the manpower and the county can prosecute but only if a witness steps forward or someone drops a dime on an anonymous phone call. When I was in community policing as an assignment, I would tell every one of the more than a dozen community groups in our city, your neighborhood can absolutely be as peaceful as you want it. The problem is you have to actually want it and not just say the words, I wish I could sleep at night. The problem is not the criminals. The problem is the people living there, who are not willing to lift a finger to stop it. Most of the time that lifting of a finger is simply placing a phone call. Community policing started in Port Arthur from an informal group of Black men who started it on their own. A few friends got together and said we are tired of this crap in our small neighborhood. I think all of them were military veterans and most or maybe all had been to Vietnam. They did not ask for permission, they simply started walking as a group and confronting dope dealers hanging out. After a while they approached the police department and asked for help. The chief called for a meeting with them I and other officers volunteered to be involved. That group of men called themselves AAMAN (we pronounced it “uh-manh”)/African American Men Against Narcotics. They alone kicked off what would later have a very successful run of community policing. We applied and got a federal grant to specifically hire 9 officers to run the program of community groups. That program was later ended as I guess political climates changed with money spent elsewhere and new priorities popped up but the 3 year federally paid program lasted about 15 years and was fairly successful. The point being, a neighborhood can have as quiet of a neighborhood as they want. As Officer Malone (Sean Connery) told Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) a couple of times in the Untouchables…. “What are you prepared to do?”. Many people aren’t prepared to do anything except complain.

Any time you make the police the enemy and reduce policing, particularly in neighborhoods, the results will not be good. Major cities do exactly that.

Perception? PA is a large city in physical size and the police are usually (but not always) busy and a lot more busy per officer. A quick look at the crime stats shows why you might not see officers more visible in PA. A city like Lumberton is more compact so if two officers spend a couple of hours a day on two main thoroughfares, they are easy to see often. PA has 4 times the population as Lumberton but has 6 times more square miles. So when with the same number of officers per capita, they have more miles per officer to cover. Then there is the frequency of certain calls which require multiple officers. At its peak like Friday and Saturday evening shift, there might be 11-12 marked patrol units in PA but you might not see them often. On day and night shifts, probably 9 units. Those officers are likely on calls, a majority of which are in neighborhoods so unless you are in the housing areas, they likely won’t be seen. As far as frequencies, look at the FBI stats on robberies for example. Lumberton shows an average of 3 per year. With 4 times the population, PA should average 12 per year, right? Nope, try 400. Let’s see 12 vs 400….. You aren’t as likely to get away with speeding in Lumberton because that is a big deal. You might never get a speeding ticket in PA. The officers are not as inclined to run radar when they aren’t busy but much of the time it isn’t even an option. They are simply doing something else. Lumberton has 1.3 officers per 1.,000 people. PA has 2.3 so almost twice as many per capita…. Yet you might not see them as often. I could cut all that down to, PA officers (like Beaumont or Orange) are busy answering calls for service. Lumberton officers are not as busy and running radar. Then, making traffic stops on main streets (such as Lumberton) obviously attracts attention with the emergency lights. And since I tossed in Beaumont and Orange… Look at burglaries which is commonly called a break in. Someone breaks into a business at night or a home or garage. It could be as little as going into an unlocked garage and stealing a bicycle but it’s an entry crime of going into a building or residence that is not open to the public to steal, assault or commit another felony. In other words, a serious crime. The FBI rates crimes per 100,000 people. So for burglaries per 100,000 people in the last 10 years it averages about: Lumberton-300 Beaumont-1,100 Port Arthur-1,100 Orange-1,100

I SECOND THAT!!!

A big thanks to KF89 for posting district standings each week

Team Record Next Opp. Lumberton 7-2 BC, Vidor, Open Vidor 6-2 Open, Lumberton, Jasper Bridge City 4-3 Lumberton, Jasper, WOS Silsbee 5-4 WOS, Open, LCM Jasper 3-4 LCM, BC, Vidor LC-M 2-5 Jasper, WOS, Silsbee WO-S 0-7 Silsbee, LCM, BC With two and a half weeks left in regular season the playoff and DC is up for grabs. Lumberton playing pretty good ball and starting to gain confidence with their end of the season matchup with Vidor coming up. Vidor resting and keeping a eye on that match up with Lumberton and then closing out the season against Jasper. BC doing everything they can to keep pace with the front runners and a playoff spot. Silsbee is putting together some consistent games at the right time to make a charge for the playoffs. Jasper struggling down the stretch looking for some consistency to make a push at the end of the season. LCM has a ways to go but has started to go in the right direction. WOS is playing spoiler this late in the season.

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And that’s why I live in Lumberton…

Thanks, we try to watch as many Astros games as possible. Not really into watching all teams. If I liked the Red Sox/Yankees matchups, espn carries them all, it seems. We really enjoy the experience of going to Minute Maid Park…..win or lose, we have a good time.

We are going to Friday night's game. Garcia is starting for the Stros.

WOS will be on that list next time. Our current streak is at 19.

Unemployment numbers are very misleading (as pertains to both the left and right when they try to tout their unemployment successes).

Head in the sand

Before covid lowest unemployment of minorities ever, energy independence for the first time ever, appointing SCJ that stopped putting a stamp of approval on infanticide at the federal level, I could go on and on. You really aren’t worth debating because you ignore facts. It’s like Trump personally gave you a wedgie and you can’t get over it, lol. Poor guy.

It’s funny you mention the average hardcore Trumper. My family and I took my 18 year old son and some of his friends out to eat at Tokyo Grill last night to eat and celebrate his 18th birthday. Our Chef who cooked for us struck up a conversation with me about politics. He’s from the Philippines. He still had a Philippino accent .His mom brought him over here in the late 90’s thru the legal immigration process when he was a small kid. He started to tell me how the Philippino Constitution was very similar to the US Constitution then went on to tell me this Country is in a very vulnerable position right now and why. I asked him who voted for in 2020. At that point he walked back to the kitchen very quickly and came back with a Trump 2024 hat! Lol He said people can say what they want too about Trump but I see right through the BS! Lol. He said he wears his Trump hat every where an doesn’t give crap what anyone has to say about it. I said all that to say there goes your stereotyping of a Trump Supporter. Lol. Your TDS is blinding.

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You’re agreeing with my point, candidate is not the problem, it’s that folks that can’t recognize a successful President when they just witnessed it. Your last paragraph simply points out that your TDS is flaring, and it is hilarious. You never seem to come to grips that the folks that voted for the idiot we have now that had a 50 year history of absolute failure are the true idiots in this story. The disaster we have now is 100% on them, no matter how you spin it. Quit making excuses for them, they’re grown ups, this is on them. What’s sad is you’re willing to excuse them for doing it AGAIN.

Brutal way to lose. Soft lofted free kick from probably 40 yds out, right to the keeper’s hands. He mishandled it, it popped off the crossbar, and a forward came running in and knocked the goalie, and defender, and the ball across the line. Was a clear foul IMO, but the goalie had no business dropping the ball to begin with

Huge win for PNG…

Can’t get anything past y’all!! Y’all are all over it. Except the law…. 🙃 Sec. 545.101. TURNING AT INTERSECTION. (b) To make a left turn at an intersection, an operator shall: (1) approach the intersection in the extreme left-hand lane lawfully available to a vehicle moving in the direction of the vehicle; and (2) after entering the intersection, turn left, leaving the intersection so as to arrive in a lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of the vehicle on the roadway being entered. A right turn must be made into the right most lane and as close to the curb as practicable as noted earlier. The left turn however, can be into any lane in that direction. As it states, a lane lawfully available in that direction. So if 2,3 or 4 lanes, any are legal. Usually …. Remember earlier, I mention that sometimes they’re a very specific laws. There is the one law that says if there’s a sign saying left lane for passing only, that is correct. There is another law however that says if you’re driving slower than the traffic at that location and time, you need to move to the right hand lane and get out of the way. So even with no sign, you still can’t legally block traffic. So the general rule is, if there’s more than one left-hand lane available, you can turn into any of them. That is the answer I was looking for in the situation I gave. There are two other circumstances where that is not valid. Usually they are at the same location but may not be. There are some intersections that have a traffic sign with an arrow showing that the left-hand lane must turn into the near lane. If that is true, typically it is because more than one lane has the option to turn left. At many intersections there are two left turn lanes. At other intersections there are actually stripes on the road that indicate turning lanes. Usually there are stripes on the road and the left turn sign at the same time. So the general left turn law says that you could move into any lane in that direction but if there’s a sign or road markings that indicate you are restricted to a particular lane, you must do so. An example I can think of is in Beaumont if a person is going east on College St. and turning left or north onto 11th St. at the traffic light. There are two left turn lanes and there’s both a sign and stripes on the road that indicate the left most turning lane must turn into the near lane on 11th St. About 10 years ago, I was a supervisor on the evening shift, and a guy called and complained on a police officer. He had gotten a citation for the exact situation where he turned into the second/center left hand lane and the officer wrote him a citation for not turning into the near left headlight. There were no sign or lane markings. Oops… This happened about 30 minutes earlier so I called the officer to the station and accused him of nothing but ask him the situation. He gave me the exact same story as the man complaining. He said I saw a guy turning left, he had on his blinker but he turned wide into the second lane, not the near lane. So I threw the ball back in his court and asked him if he knew what the law was and he said sure, you have to turn into the near left-hand lane. I pulled out the book and showed him the same law that I posted above. Oops. Then there was his question, now what? I said the first thing you’re going to do is dismiss that citation. You can’t even change it to a warning because there is no crime. Secondly, I am going to call the guy and tell him the citation is dismissed and we apologize. After that, you better hope he does not get a lawyer. Then I hit him with the big one. What if the guy had refused to sign the citation? You would’ve handcuffed him and brought him to the county jail and towed his vehicle. Now he has been booked into the County Jail and his vehicle impounded on the crime that does not exist. Oops. The guy was not happy, but he did not pursue it further including no complaint to internal affairs. I documented it per our policy in case it came up later.

Is this a typo? I bet this has not happened many times in district play for the Cards.

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I can’t imagine someone breaking in my house, I call the cops, and I jump for joy when I see two women with clipboards arrive on the scene. That’ll show him.

Feigned good intentions are much more important than results to liberal politicians. Just give us more money so we can fix the problem that our previous policies created.

Junior Lofton goes for 42 & 14 a day or two after signing a 4 year/$7m deal with Memphis. Memphis had to sign him to a regular contract (instead of the 2 way/g league deal) in order to be able to use him for the playoffs (and Steven Adams is out for the year). The Griz only played 6 guys, but I still have to wonder if he got that opportunity before they signed him to the deal, how that would have affected his contract. Gotta think it would be at least double. Still, huge day for Junior and a great opportunity for him going forward.

Very great answers. Thank you. I know one that wasn’t mentioned above is travel… in example lot of Nederland’s district foes are Houston area teams so they play very top notch team very close to home. I got that from a coaches mouth. PAM, WOS and Silsbee… WOS and Silsbee are kinda in the lines of they will play anyone that is willing to step up. Plus seems like the better part of the last 15 years Nederland has played WOS and Silsbee. PAM gets them ready for FBM and beyond.

Excellent answer. Also playing teams that run specific offense. One that you wouldn't see in district play but would need to be familiar with during the playoffs. And rivalry games of course.