Housekeeping
Reading this Yahoo! News article on Operation Return to Sender has me thinking about housekeeping. Well, I’m wondering if “sweeps” are really an efficient way to do law enforcement. As usual, everything I write here is just me pulling my opinion out of my ignorant tuchus. I don’t know a hill of beans about law enforcement operations. But I do know housecleaning.
Everyone does. I think most people have the sense that doing things as they need done is preferable to procrastinating until the job is overwhelmingly large. Laundry, anyone? Dishes? It’s so much easier to do one or two days’ worth of laundry than it is to wait two weeks and spend an entire day doing the work. Laundry, however, doesn’t require much preperatory investigative work–but if it did, would that make a difference?
Here in America, where it seems the number of things a police officer can arrest you for grow each year, the problem is probably akin to a young working couple with three kids. Who has time to do the laundry? If you’ve followed the immigration reform news for the last month or so, you know that the illegal immigrant problem is intractable. I’m not talking about border security, but the fact that we don’t have enough officers or funds to address the millions of illegal immigrants living in our country. I know a certain crowd is crowing for the immediate arrest and deportation (or inprisonment) of every illegal alien in the country. Well, good luck with that. It’d be like having $2 and a shovel, and being instructed to use those resources to move a medium-sized hill into the next county.
So like the couple with the kids and no time, we let the laundry pile up until it’s really starting to stink up the bedroom. Maybe have a little domestic spat about why the laundry isn’t getting done. A little finger pointing. And then have a laundry day.
But what about next week?