'To Protect and To Serve'. Just words scrawled on cop cars or just a catchy slogan used in many…read moreHollywood movies? Either way, I assume those words are synonymous with police anywhere. A few weeks ago I was proven wrong when I placed a call to the Corinth Police Department. I called shortly after midnight on 7-26-2014 to report catching a teenage girl prowling inside my car which was parked in my drive. She had been seen, by us, prowling around inside a neighbor's truck. I gave a description of her, along with a description of the two other teens with her. I was told they would send a patrol car right out. OK, this is where the "serve" in 'To Protect and To Serve' should take place. It did not. I remained outside until 2:30 am and no patrol car made an appearance. The following day, I did inform the neighbor of the incident and their reaction was typical anger and disgust in how the children are being raised nowadays. They also made it clear they would have no qualms in shooting a thief or intruder. I made a mental note then and there that these teens need to remain in their own neighborhood and if I saw them I would call the police again, to PROTECT them, from themselves and their own stupidity. On 8-17-2014 I called the Corinth Police Department again. I stated my name and the fact that I had called them before about a prowler in my car. I laid it all out to him and even the fact that they did not follow up on my previous call. This call was to inform him that my car, parked in my drive had been burgled. I told him this time money was stolen, glove box rifled through and the console opened. Did I get an apology from him regarding their failure to send a patrol car the first time I called? No, I did not. Did I get asked HOW MUCH money was stolen? No, I did not. Did I have any sense of calm come over me as I told him my situation? No, I did not. He did say "we will put you on the books for extra patrol". Oh, ok, cool this is where the serve and protect is going to come into play. Well, damn if I ain't wrong on that again. Not one single patrol car has been spotted in this neighborhood, day or night since my calls to them. The badge for the Corinth Police Department states two words, 'Pride' and 'Service'. Well, they can have pride in knowing I have zero confidence in their word. If my situation and how it was handled is an inkling into their service then I do hope for myself and my neighbors' sakes these teens and others like them stay away from this neighborhood. Because we will be forced to stand up and protect what is ours. The pizza delivery guy has no problems finding this neighborhood in a timely manner, I can only hope the Corinth Police Department can catch on soon and start patrolling as promised. Update:It is the first week of Jan 2015 and still no extra patrolling in this neighborhood. We have new neighbors moving in and someone else vacated a house. That opens the window of opportunity for those delinquent teens to poke around and possibly vandalize that property. To Each Their Own.

I was once stopped and given a ticket because the Officer said "this looks like the car of a Drug…read moreDealer". I visited an associate and the previous owner had the windows tinted. I couldn't help that. My License situation didn't get settled for years, afterwards (which was my fault). I didn't remember to pay the ticket. My point is, how does a Grand Prix look like the car of a drug dealer? Man f#^k the MPD! I hope they disband and get a whole new force in there. They are incompetent and corrupt, not because of what happened with me, but how they didn't investigate the Dolph case like they should have. Bunch of dummies!

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Florence police are the most useless police I've ever seen. I kid you not sat at a light, two…read morepeople ran a red light, and then three more ran the red light and blocked the intersection. traffic was at a complete stop due to these people sitting in the middle of the intersection. all this right in front of THREE Florence officers. what'd they do? sit there and watched the chaos doing nothing about it. not even ticket the three who ran the light and impeded traffic. I wish Florence had police. these guys don't count.

I've been living in the berclair area area right next to Nutbush and I just heard a gun battle…read moregoing off I looked outside and I seen a police car going around the corner that's the first time I've ever seen the police in the area while the gunshots are going off I want to thank them for being here and trying to do something we need some rough tough police officers in this area the kind that can see the bad guys and not afraid to go push them around thank you again

One of our brave and valiant policeman took some of his precious personal time to come and speak to…read moreour community group. I am sure most people do not realize how unstaffed the police are and how much their hands are tied by the rules of engagement placed on them by those in power and the main stream media who refuses to do real journalism, they just say what they are told to say. We know this because you will hear the same message on each one of them even using the same wording...do they really think we are that stupid? Our brave officers deserve respect, remember they are people just like you and me except they run to the fire instead of away from it. Stop and think. Why has Memphis been short of police for so many years? Why are they held back from doing the job they are trained to do and to do it with force. They are not backed up by the powers that be and some of the people are not raising their children to respect police or teachers, no one. This is no favor to their own children nor their communities. Wake up and realize we need our police and our military. They are providing for us all doing a dangerous job that most of us couldn't do for a single day without falling apart at the seams. Thank you to our men and women in blue!!!