text: Tenari Maafala suggests that the media is misrepresenting HPD officers. I don't need the media to tell me how crooked, inept, rude, and ineffective some HPD officers can be. I rarely come into contact with the cops (yay for whiteness and being housed) but damn if whenever I do they are an embarrassment to our city. 
  
  Aside from the implied threat of force an insubstantial police presence has, I really do not know what good they do for society. 
  
  The last time a police office came to my neighborhood, he was cussing more than the drunk and disorderly guy he was called to regulate. 
  
  
  Also just have to note that HPD was supposed to have body cameras rolling out at least three months ago, and now the earliest they are expected is December.