10-02-2014, 07:36 AM
Thank you mimosa for the good advice. I like you have never been pulled over let alone got a ticket in over 20 years of driving here on the big isle. Thankfully I gave up drinking a decade ago for quality family time. Pahoa back in the days of being the wild wild east use to have two policeman on duty at all times and one probably had to man the station. Kind of felt like the dukes of hazards kind of rural country.
Now there are so many cops at the pahoa station it looks and feels like a gang or mafia. I know they got all that money, drugs cars, and feel like they are pimping with their bling bling. Really though do we need a dozen on duty now at $60,000 a year with another dozen off duty getting paid $ 60,000 a year? That is over a million a year being spent before we get to the vehicles and gas that help keep our demand for fuel higher in these trying times. Where does all this revenue come from?. How many of the DuIs this year out of the 800 island wide come from Puna?
Sat at longs parking lot for less than one hour and saw plenty open alcohol beverages being enjoyed behind the wheel on two of them. Usually they have some kind of brown paper bag over it but if you look or smell then you can usually tell. My point is you could catch more drunks and drug addicted people waiting outside their nearest pharmacy, passing time drinking until the fix comes in. Our highway is very dangerous already without the added intimidation or pressure from the extra good ole boys in blue.
Now there are so many cops at the pahoa station it looks and feels like a gang or mafia. I know they got all that money, drugs cars, and feel like they are pimping with their bling bling. Really though do we need a dozen on duty now at $60,000 a year with another dozen off duty getting paid $ 60,000 a year? That is over a million a year being spent before we get to the vehicles and gas that help keep our demand for fuel higher in these trying times. Where does all this revenue come from?. How many of the DuIs this year out of the 800 island wide come from Puna?
Sat at longs parking lot for less than one hour and saw plenty open alcohol beverages being enjoyed behind the wheel on two of them. Usually they have some kind of brown paper bag over it but if you look or smell then you can usually tell. My point is you could catch more drunks and drug addicted people waiting outside their nearest pharmacy, passing time drinking until the fix comes in. Our highway is very dangerous already without the added intimidation or pressure from the extra good ole boys in blue.