Little Rock: WE ARE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER!

WE ARE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT TOGETHER! 
Little Rock Police Department Non-Resident Personnel
"Local Options" DENIED residents of fair city

"Mercenary:
A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict and is

"motivated to take part in the hostilities by the desire for private gain." The term "mercenary" is also used to describe the army itself.

As a result of the assumption that a mercenary is essentially motivated by money, the term mercenary usually carries negative connotations. There is a blur in the distinction between a mercenary and a foreign volunteer, when the primary motive of a soldier in a foreign army is uncertain."

Some LRPD personnel choose to become part of the Little Rock community by actually living here. They choose to live in the city that feeds their family. They have chosen to rear & educate their children amongst those that they have vowed to protect & serve. To pay property taxes, patronize our local vendors, so forth.

They share in the same plights & woes that all Little Rock residents must endure, indeed. They share an equal vote BEYOND some self-serving, non-resident dominated Fraternal Order of Police Union.

They are allowed to directly participate & vote WITHIN our legislative system as a said resident. I have heard many paltry stories as to the reasons and benefits of hiring mercenary non-resident personnel, many anecdotally true on a small scale but surely fail to rise up as the fact as a whole, by far.

Whatever the so-called reason or as I put it, "distracting details" happen to be, it is still quite evident that not all police personnel share the same local interests as this city or it's residents, indeed.

I always hear the Good 'ol Boy bigots of the southern-fried south talk about "local choice", "states rights", "local options" & crap like that when they wanna' avoid being more inclusive or risk losing power because they are a bunch of backward-ass antebellum dinosaurs. We are here in bigot-ass Arkansas & you got to be a fool if you think I would rather trust any out-lying arkansas import cop to one that shares my same street problems day in and out. Not just commuting in like a job on da' plantation or like an open-air state prison. Hell take the car and the whip home with ya' you do anyway. They drive our cars home with them at taxpayer expense to their outlying residences. WE PAY FOR IT!

Now, this is just my personal opinion of course. It is not personal at all though, I know a great many non-resident cops that are awesome cops and people. That's NOT the point. "Local Options" & Local patriotism should come first if you wish to remain consistent in your logic. One thing that I have learned in my life as an irregular soldier is that at the end of the day, they will always label you a "Soldier of Fortune" or more often than not, simply a "mercenary" and they don't mean it in a nice way. Here's your paycheck thank you very much. I expected it and didn't mind at all, in fact I had absolutely no desire to remain a minute longer than I had to.

You don't get to enjoy an extra level of "privacy" because you choose to become a mercenary & live outside your workplace as opposed to those that that sacrifice the same as US, not in my book you don't.

Mercenary LRPD personnel do enjoy different treatment, from those that chose or must live here in our city of Little Rock. I proved that fact long ago when my FOIA requests were appealed to Dustin Mcdaniel's, Arkansas State Attorney. Even the Arkansas Times should remember this one. It is very interesting to know that city personnel that live outside our city limits and decide on our quality of life here, have an additional expectation of privacy than those that have chosen to live in Little Rock do NOT enjoy: Opn. 2011-114
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-MLaIwtu89TbF9IbnZzWm5hRzFoSlhXaUpsQlYxZ0tsNHU0/edit?usp=sharing

List of resident & non-resident Little Rock Police Personnel:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx54PxaETQMOUUVvN1NYQmVXd2JPRHg3Nk5QeU1UeHBBb3VJ/edit?pli=1