The Indianapolis Star’s disgracefully amateurish Matt Tully bemoans another issue today that breaks his heart, and he just can’t understand it. Until he creates a new game, and now all is clear.
The Star’s continuing effort to place the root of all crime on the shoulders of any and all Democratic elected officials led off this week with the story that the Indy/Marion County police force is 120 officers short. As we all know by now, it’s not Matt’s job to actually do any reporting when it comes to his columns or his blog. His role is to vomit up his musings on this issues.
Today’s “Why, oh why…?” offering asks, “How could this happen?”
Fair question. Maybe the Star could find an employee who’s willing to look into it.
But don’t ask Matt to do it. He’s too busy playing his new game of counting the police cars on the way to work. It’s his way of understanding the problem, and he encourages us to get to the root of crime in Indianapolis by playing along.
Pure creative genius at work, folks. I don’t know why the rest of us who passed time in the back seat of our parent’s car on those long road trips didn’t think of it first. Adapting our counting of different state license plates, or the different color of cars, coulda put us on the map.
It’s more fun that asking if the Governor’s policy of raiding local police forces for more State Troopers might be to blame. It sure beats looking at exit interviews with employees to see why they left. Has there been a wave of retirements? Is there a lack of applicants? Are officers leaving because they don’t like the job anymore? Are they leaving for more money?
Boring.
Just count the police cars you see every day. You’ll then understand all you need to know (if you are a political columnist for the state’s largest newspaper) about crime.
