FOR TWO WEEKS...

The newspaper article says that "For two weeks, officers, deputies and Marshals saturated the streets and apartment complexes in areas that are known for gang activity."
"...There is a reason this operation was a success. It's because we targeted the right people."

Well, sonofagun.
The police worked for two weeks this year.

Once a year the Tulsa Police Department goes out and saturates the streets and apartment complexes in areas that are known for gang activity and they come back with lots of people arrested and lots of guns and narcotics confiscated. Then they brag about it in the newspapers. Then they get quiet for another year.

Let's try that at work.
Let's do practically nothing - not show up for hours when someone calls, refuse to work if it's raining, bully citizens who legitimately disagree with us. Then let's go out for two weeks and do what we were supposed to be doing daily. After that we can go to the boss and brag about it. I'm pretty sure that's not the way to get a good evaluation.

I don't understand how this can be done only once or twice a year and then it's considered a good job. Isn't this the job they are supposed to be doing every day of the year? What reasons can the police have to keep them from doing this daily? If you can spend two weeks rounding up criminals and criminal paraphanelia, why can't you spend 48 more weeks doing it?

Statistics suggest that I will probably be the victim of a violent crime at some time in my life. I certainly do hope that my time comes during that two weeks per year that the police are working. Oh, no, wait a minute. They'll be busy saturating streets and apartment complexes that are known for gang activity. Shoot. Well once again I'll just loll around the house for an entire day or two so that the police can show up at leisure and take a 'report' of the crime that they didn't protect me from. And the smart criminals are saving up their hard-stolen money so that they can take some time off next year during the well publicized two weeks of public police work.