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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Look at a local paper that does not focus on only sunshine and roses in the Villages and you will see many reports of police activity. They are already doing their jobs; bad drivers are the least of their problems.
How many additional officers would you like? At least 800 so they can be permanently assigned to the locations where the pedestrians were killed? 800 more to be assigned to the next set of roads? Triple that to 5,000 additional so they can be assigned to those locations on three shifts?
The police cannot be everywhere and we really, really do not want them to be. I don't know what the answer is to untrained, uncaring, or distracted drivers but an overabundance of police is not it.
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I think a sizable percentage of the pedestrian deaths are homeless junkies walking along the highway in dark clothing at night. They are virtually invisible unless one is using high beam headlights. They don’t want to walk in the weeds to the side of the road.