What are your expectations of a Police Department?

- protect your safety
- fix problems in your area that are felony related
- catch drug dealers
- stop prostitution rings

Please tell me if I am asking too much?

Here is an email I sent an officer:
First things first - the community meeting - After thinking about this and proposing it to numerous people, I am not sure a community venting session will help us any. What our community is looking for is what is the City X Police Department going to do for us to get this nuisance out of our neighborhood. We have vented to our partners, our HOA, each other and at this point, people just want to see the problem solved. Not to mention, Patrick forwarded me the lengthy document of information that he has handed over to the PD and I have to say that the document is a very accurate account of the happenings of this unit. He also told me that he has offered up his unit for an Officer to stake out the place as well as there are two units that are empty in our HOA and I am also sure that anyone around here is willing to let officers use their units to perform surveillance on these people as we do not want this in our neighborhood.

Here is her response:
unfortunately you are going back into the wanting the police department handling this, but we are not going to be able to solve the problem the way you want it to be solved. as far as stakeouts, we have received the information from patrick, but we aren't unfortunately going to be able to do anything about this. we have to many properties through out City X and we don't have the manpower to do this.

FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!

It's not like we live in rural americal - we are in the burbs damnit.

I am sorry, but the police department can't handle this?! They why the fuck to you exist?!?

I am very curious as to how she will handle a woman with cramps today and who just told her grandmother off yesterday in a yelling match that ended up with me hanging up on her. *patiently awaiting her phone call back*