This article is about how hiring police can help save a community's money. Hiring police helps bring down crime rates, obvioiusly. Crimes like homocide and theft can cost taxpayers millions a year to investigate and persecute. By hiring police, the author theorizes, the drop in violent crimes will save the citizens just as much.
The author of this article uses mostly logos in his writing. He uses many facts and statistics to prove more police means more money, in most cases. He is very precise with his facts and they would be hard to argue with. He also uses L.A. as a real-life example; since expanding their police force 8%, the number of homocides has dropped from 480 in 2006 to 293. This has saved the city millions, leaving readers to hope that their towns and cities follow L.A.'s example.
"Save Money-- Hire Police
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ridgewayheaton-police-20111122,0,5810908.story
It seems strange that we have had to hire more police, it seems like the type of occupation that there were always be enough employers in because it is an important job. Logos was probably important in this article, especially with the statistics about new police and crime rates!
ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea. I think it's kind of ridiculous to save money by firing policemen. I think police are a necessity, and letting go of policemen because of money seems pretty unfair considering what they do for us.
ReplyDeletePolice are WAYYYYYYY overpaid
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