What are your local police like?

[MindPilot]

8. Compared to some others, San Diego PD is remarkably restrained.

They were very accommodating during the Bush-era anti-war protests, and even left the Occupy people pretty much alone. They have had their share of excessive force incidents, but none of those were racial. We have a new female police chief, and she is cleaning house--a couple of corruption incidents have already been dealt with. I think she is establishing that she is not taking any of the business-as-usual shit from the officers.

When ever anything happens that is the least bit out of the ordinary, she is on-scene, talking to civilians and facing the media. Not unusual to turn on the tv news and see her at two or three community events, crime scenes, and schools in one day.

We actually see cops on foot--walking a beat in my neighborhood.

It is an interesting dichotomy since SDPD is one of the lowest paid departments in CA and they are losing officers and having recruitment problems, so one would think there would be more issues, but there are not.