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Has anyone considered why there is no outrage over the waste and abuse of our police departments policies on law enforcement? Considering Ohio, there is a new program to target motorists who do not have their seatbelts on. The State patrol has spent god knows how much advertising this, and is obviously diverting resources to catch the evildoing non seatbelt wearing citizens. From my viewpoint, this is simply a backhanded tax. Similar to busting drug users or other "crimes" which only hurt the individual, police departments are rewarded for making these kind of busts. They recieve the money from the fines or confiscation of property. Are they rewarded for stopping a homeless junkie from attacking your grandma for money to buy some more heroin? I don't think so. If the police would back off the PC train a little, and protect the citizens who need to be protected and stop violent crimes when they can, instead of harrassing peopel who choose to risk their life and their life alone, we might have a little safer state. At least we have somewhat reestablished our rights to carry weapons again, so I can do my part. But, until citizens demand actual law enforcement from the police, and real, meaningful laws from the legislators, we will continue down the path where crime pays as much for the police as it does the criminal who gets away while the cops are giving out tickets to non- criminals.