Crime put on hold during U.S. Open
If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s local TV news finding the most innocuous news item and turning into the plague. Pittsburgh’s KDKA is reporting that some court cases will be put on hold during the U.S. Open so that the police officers and detectives can work security at the U.S. Open – KDKA’s contention is that police officers don’t want to work the U.S. Open.
Privately, several county police detectives argue their job is to investigate crime – not work the US Open and by doing that they’re not solving cases.
“45,000 people on that golf course everyday for four days. It makes sense that they’re there providing protection,” Onorato countered. “And if they don’t like it, maybe they’re in the wrong line of duty. “
He adds: “These are police officers and they’re getting a direct order. And for them to give you a memo because they don’t like their order to me is outrageous. They swore to an oath. They didn’t swear they they got to like me, but when the superintendent of police gives them an order to police somewhere they follow it. They don’t slip memos to reporters because they don’t like what they’re doing.”
Yeah – like a police officer would rather spend his day in court rather than at Oakmont. Sure.
