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In reply to the discussion: DISGUSTING: How one Florida County Sheriff's office is preparing for Irma [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)They probably won't spot those routine FTA's with a warrant for something minor- and like I said while people are acting like they will be running everybody at the door that would be pretty much impossible.
The old saying, and it's true, is that 5% of your population are 95% of your problems. And once an officer has worked in an area a while they know those people.
Hell, I've been off the job more than a decade and I can still rattle off dozens of names and would recognize a higher percentage than that on sight. When you have worked an area or a neighborhood for a while you know who the predators are, who the troublemakers are, who has warrants or is likely to. You know who is a problem only when they are drunk, who only did stupid things when they are around other people, etc.