Police as high-paid garbage men?-------Blight fight: Muskegon police spearhead effort to haul trash from alleys, abandoned homes

Meebee we got too many cops and not enough garbage men?
Blight fight: Muskegon police spearhead effort to haul trash from alleys, abandoned homes | MLive.com:
"The clean-up effort was a partnership between the city's police and public works departments and the Department of Corrections. Two probationers joined nearly a dozen police officers to clear 80 yards of trash from 20 city-owned properties.
Among the junk they hauled away were 79 tires, toilets, mattresses and nine junk vehicles that were located in a two-block area between Webster and Muskegon avenues.
"It doesn't take long to figure out blight and crime are connected," said Muskegon Police Chief Jeffrey Lewis.
The effort started with neighborhood police officers surveying 500 city-owned properties, including alleys, street ends, empty lots and abandoned homes that had reverted to city ownership. They ranked the properties in terms of the condition they were in, and those in the worst shape were targeted for the first round of clean-up.
As Muskegon Police Detective Capt. Shawn Bride said, it's hard to expect others to clean up their property when you're not cleaning up your own."