According to the Day, New London’s new police chief, Margaret Ackley, has promised a “no-nonsense, positive approach” to her job.
I was shocked to hear about it. It seems to me that the all-nonsense negative approach has not been given a fair trial.
Yes, there are some who might say that New London has been using that approach for years, but the fact is that at best New London has taken a mostly nonsense, mostly negative approach.
Ask any Republican (if you can find one) what went wrong in the past eight years and he’ll (they are just about all white males these days) tell you that George Bush wasn’t conservative enough. Why, they’re even using the “L” word about him, now that he’s gone.
The same goes for New London. Sure, they’ve tried nonsense on occasion. Just ask poor Nathan Hale, whose peripatetic school house is, I believe, once again on the move. But they really haven’t given it a fair chance. Every time someone advocates something truly non-sensical someone comes along and stops it, or at least grafts some sensible provisions into it. And as to negativity, no one will publicly advocate negativity, though in their hearts almost everyone is negative about New London.
But what’s truly shocking about the new chief’s stance is the fact that she sprung it on us only after she was selected for the job. Would anyone have considered her for the job if they had known in advance that she wasn’t going to allow any nonsense at all? Isn’t that a bit rigid on her part? It’s just not the New London way. I join my Republican brothers in demanding that we give nonsense a fair try before abandoning it as a policy. There are still pockets of New London that have not yet been destroyed, and a sound all-nonsense policy should take care of them in a matter of years.
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