10,000 more sleeping cops

[Taro Toporific]

MiniS Police -
NPA to bulk up, target gangs
- 10,000 officers will be added to help restore public safety.
Aug 27 / The Asahi Shimbun
The National Police Agency, dogged by rising crime and a dwindling arrest rate, will add 10,000 officers to its force to crack down on terrorism, organized crime and foreign lawbreakers.
The NPA's emergency package of anti-crime measures, made public Tuesday, includes a new department to fight gangsters and the deployment of more officers to koban police boxes to tackle street crimes ... NPA has designated this year the start of a three-year campaign to recover public safety.

[Caustic Saint]

From the subject, I thought this was going to be about speed bumps.


Speed hump or bump means slow down. There is a hump in the road to control traffic speed. Also known as a sleeping policeman.

[Taro Toporific]

...Also known as a sleeping policeman.

Well, at least SOME J-cops have strong initiative...

Pilfering cop gets boot
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Aug. 27, 2003
A Tokyo police officer who stole cash at a Japanese-style pub while investigating a quarrel has been fired...At the pub, Osawa snatched an envelope containing 5,739 yen in cash from a shelf while the landlord was briefly upstairs..Osawa had borrowed more than 10 million yen from moneylenders to cover his family's living costs since around 2000

[GomiGirl]

Osawa snatched an envelope containing 5,739 yen in cash

Why would you bother?

[Gestalt]

Why would you bother?

Maybe that was all he had left to pay back on the 10 million.

[GargoyleTS]

The National Police Agency, dogged by rising crime and a dwindling arrest rate, will add 10,000 officers to its force to crack down on terrorism, organized crime and foreign lawbreakers.

Wow. Just....Wow. Jaywalking foreigners rank up there with terrorists. Gaijin smoking a doob are equals with Yak druglords and profit-hiding Pachinko Kings. Woohoo! Do you think I can get a loan from the Pachinko guys to start a chain of underground pachinko bars catering solely to yakuza and foreigners and laundering both cash and drugs?

[Gestalt]

I was watching a talk show a few weeks ago where one of the topics was the issue of the rising crime rate and policing. One of the politician guests said that they had considered the option of getting foreigners working on/with the police force but said there was too much risk that they would be using information they found out from the police to help other foreigners commit crimes!

[Jack]

Osawa snatched an envelope containing 5,739 yen in cash

Why would you bother?

People in New York City used to get killed for $40. The crime rate there has improved dramatically. Now people in Seattle, Detroit, Houston, Cincinati.... get killed for $40.

[Taro Toporific]

[GuyJean]

Now people in Seattle, Detroit, Houston, Cincinati.... get killed for $40.

.. And some people in Toronto, Quebec, and Ontario get raped for free.. ...

GJ

[GuyJean]

Ahhhh, kill me

But first rape me..






GJ

[Jack]

How can I be arrested by those chicks?

GJ,

I was joking. Relax man. Of course people get raped for free here in Canada.