Thank you, this is exactly what I was going to say in response.


I know that these 2 incidents don't take a lot of time, but the keyword here shouldn't be police time, it should be "resources." As in the police officers that are assigned to a dildo store raid instead of patrolling the streets, the guy that was shot over rent money in a domestic dispute at the same time the city had like 20 cops and at the Chippendale's show, the DA's resources, the lawyer fees and court fees associated, and whatever other processing fees that I do not see on the outside. Us taxpayers pay for all of this crap. These two separate incidents are good indicators of where the city's priorities are! It tells me that they must not really care about drugs, violence, and other harmful crimes if they're willing to set up these stings ahead of time and use more manpower than necessary to accomplish them.


Because they used an undercover cop the night before to go in and buy a dildo from the clerk. The clerk was arrested for selling the obscene toy to the cop and they confiscated everything else.

speaking of police resources, that's one thing that LPD apparently doesn't have much of, considering how badly they're wanting to hire (and train) new officers... This is not what one would call effective marketing.

I honestly doubt LPD's target recruitment pool will be impacted by this one way or the other. If anything, the average salary for West Texas and lack of excitement are the biggest deterrents.

ya arent "now hiring" signs for them on almost every corner

and then they do this?!?!

Yeah, that was another point I was going to bring up: they have been recruiting new officers for quite some time now and complaining about being understaffed but they spend use the time of their current force for pointless tasks such as this.

There was another big problem recently, I think they were complaining about not having enough funds to supply new uniforms for their officers but they went out and bought a whole lot of new police cars. Don't remember exactly, but I think that was the situation.

They should just hire Vic Mackey and get it over with. He'll tear down the crime in this city.

ya they arent good at finding solutions to their problems, which is an elementary school skill

the lpd was advertising a lot at the beginning of the fall semester, but stopped when they had a promising group for the second round of the hiring process. they started it up again early this year because a huge percentage of recruits didn't make it past the background-check part.

people aren't "badly" needed, lubbock just needs to realize that it's not a small town anymore. this place has horrible big city crime, so focusing on shit like closing down sex shops, busting traveling strippers, and allocating 350 cops for every tech sporting event is ridiculous.


i remember there being complaints about the amount of cars/trucks the city owns. i think it's something like there are more city vehicles than city employees.