JSO knocking on 18,000 doors in NW Jax

[sheclown]

Jacksonville police will knock on 18,000 doors in Northwest Jacksonville in an attempt to stop gun-related crime

By Derek Gilliam   

The Sheriff's Office will blanket crime-ridden neighborhoods, install surveillance cameras and knock on 18,000 doors in Northwest Jacksonville in an attempt to stop gun-related crime — which has spiked by 43 percent this year.

Sheriff John Rutherford, Mayor Alvin Brown and Councilwoman Denise Lee talked about the crime reduction initiative code-named Operation Ceasefire on Tuesday afternoon outside a Sheriff's Office station on Myrtle Avenue.

The Sheriff's Office largely tied the sky-rocketing gun-related crime to drug dealing.

Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2014-05-20/story/jacksonville-police-will-knock-18000-doors-northwest-jacksonville#ixzz32Sdl338F

[JayBird]

Saw it going around on twitter, @SpotJSO had retweeted it.


I had hoped it was just propoganda but sure enough MJ has the news and facts first. I don't see how this is both legal and not considered profiling/discrimination.

Chris, and other legal eagles here, how is happening? Or are we being misled?

[NotNow]

There is no warrant required to knock on doors.   Yes, the poster is misleading.

[FSBA]

Knocking on doors isn't illegal, but I wonder how many times officers will "smell" probable cause to enter homes.

[NotNow]

Put on a 10 pound bullet resistant vest.  A navy blue uniform.  Black, heavy boots.  25 pounds of duty belt.  Go out in Northwest Jacksonville on foot at 2:00PM.  Knock on every door and listen to every story.   Two or three hours in, you smell marijuana at some apartment door.  Now find the motivation to take your soaking wet sweating a$$ into some scmucks apartment in search of a misdemeanor charge that you will end up writing a Notice to Appear (misdemeanor citation) to the guy IF you find anything.  Call your Sergeant to handle the complaint that is being made against you so that if you are just this stupid he or she can give you the proper education that you seem to be screaming for...

[sheclown]

I can't imagine this will end well --

On the other hand, at least it isn't code enforcement.

[ben says]

Put on a 10 pound bullet resistant vest.  A navy blue uniform.  Black, heavy boots.  25 pounds of duty belt.  Go out in Northwest Jacksonville on foot at 2:00PM.  Knock on every door and listen to every story.   Two or three hours in, you smell marijuana at some apartment door.  Now find the motivation to take your soaking wet sweating a$$ into some scmucks apartment in search of a misdemeanor charge that you will end up writing a Notice to Appear (misdemeanor citation) to the guy IF you find anything.  Call your Sergeant to handle the complaint that is being made against you so that if you are just this stupid he or she can give you the proper education that you seem to be screaming for...

Love how you equate the guy smoking weed as a schmuck in need of a state intervention..

[sheclown]

I suppose it depends on the approach. A friendly knock on the door with a non-threatening police presence asking "how's it going" is an awesome idea

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

A great idea for the papers.

A completely shitty idea for the officers that will actually have to do it.

Since it's on the pay side of the FTU that I refuse to pay for, is this another amnesty initiative?  Are they just asking for the guns, or is there some sort of cash offer on the table for any weapons turned it?

[NotNow]

They are simply asking the residents for help. 

Put on a 10 pound bullet resistant vest.  A navy blue uniform.  Black, heavy boots.  25 pounds of duty belt.  Go out in Northwest Jacksonville on foot at 2:00PM.  Knock on every door and listen to every story.   Two or three hours in, you smell marijuana at some apartment door.  Now find the motivation to take your soaking wet sweating a$$ into some scmucks apartment in search of a misdemeanor charge that you will end up writing a Notice to Appear (misdemeanor citation) to the guy IF you find anything.  Call your Sergeant to handle the complaint that is being made against you so that if you are just this stupid he or she can give you the proper education that you seem to be screaming for...

Love how you equate the guy smoking weed as a schmuck in need of a state intervention..

No, I equate those who make twist the words of others as schmucks.  And they should keep their prejudices to themselves.

[AKIRA]

Of all the times to answer the door with crack in left hand and chopper in right, this is not the month.

I see this as more from the "community policing" idea, rather than anything with unconstitutional intent. If you don't want to talk to police, then don't.

The camera idea, that's interesting....

[Dog Walker]

Patrol Director Williams also told a group of us in 5 Points Wednesday morning that he was going to have to pull "resources" (officers), a lot of them, out of the other Zones to accomplish this.  That didn't sit well with some people, but most understood the necessity.

Something has to be done about the slaughter taking place in NW Jax.

[Dog Walker]

So they've got the slaughter in riverside taken care of then?

Yep!

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Something has to be done about the slaughter taking place in NW Jax.

So by sending LEO to ask people to give up the (illegal?) firearms that they acquired (illegally?) to protect themselves from the dangers of others carrying around (illegal?) firearms JSO is trying to accomplish what exactly?

I've spoken with quite a few people, just recently, that I would assume are the same types of people that this search is looking for, and I can tell you that they all consider it a necessity to be packing. 

You and I live on the fringes of their reality, but we don't live in it and I highly doubt that this initiative is going to be even mildly successful.  (Unless you're [general 'you're' not specifically 'you'] the Polyanna type that feels if taking just 1 gun off the street is considered a success.  )

[AKIRA]

Where are you getting the info that police are asking people to hand over guns?