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	Name:	Bob -
	Subject:	Fewer Marine Police this year...
	Date:	3/30/2011 7:40:45 AM

It appears we will have only two Marine Police officers on the water this summer on Lake Martin due to budget cuts. I have thought about it and while I can see a downside I think the upside is more from not having to worry as much about being harrassed. If you are like me you have dealt with a less than polite officer who was more in love with his "power" than he was with doing anything meaningful on the lake. I get tired of watching the harrassing "boat checks" at chimney rock anyway. Perhaps now they can sit and watch for truly dangerous boting operations that happen all the time rather than random "boat checks".

My brother is a local Cop. I really like cops. But...I also like the fact that unless you are on a body of water there must be probable cause to pull somebody over and check them out. It has always been my beef...get the real bad guys and do the hard work. Going boat to boat at the Rock to ask for License and registration seems like a pretty stupid waste of time with all of the true issues we have on the water...use the time well Marine Police, plenty of real bad guys out there...