Woburn: Police details vs flagmen.

a Woburn police officer directs traffic, as a city DPW crew clear fallen tree. (high winds)earlier in the day.
a law is to be brought before Beacon Hill to change the police detail to flagmen instead. They say it would save 1 BILLION dollars.
My opinion - as in this case, a police officer is best because of the hazard. we'll see if a new law is Passed.
THIS WOULD LIMIT POLICE OFFICER OVERTIME!
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[punchlineYankeeDiv]

that is a bad street in north woburn if it was a flag man i get bet my pay check that no one would stop i work for the city of woburn

[guidosguitarlounge]

@punchlineYankeeDiv this looked like an emergency ....so this was the best response.

[zzzzoooommmmgggg]

LOL OMG, I remember driving by that!

[guidosguitarlounge]

cool, it was a mess...

[Plataea]

I agree most of the Woburn PD are pro's but the main issue most people have with this is the money, while its true not all of these details are on overtime, most details are and most of these guys are in the 80-100,000$ a year club which puts the rate for them playing flagman (which any well trained civilian can do) well above par, just another example of wastfull state policy`

[guidosguitarlounge]

hope the state can get going in the right direction !

[reverepolicesuckdick]

Woburn Police are professional and have class. They treat people with politeness, unlike the garbage despicable Revere,Mass. police!

[broaktree]

Gov Patrick is a moron!

[chrisdimaio21]

I had a Woburn Officer wave me through a red light without stopping traffic coming the other way. When I asked him why he did it he said he meant for me to stop at the line. I'm not sure why I need to be waved to the line... Point is police aren't super beings any well train civilian can do it. Honestly I see a lot of these guys texting and talking on the phone or chatting with the workers... Not really a $50/hr performance.

[MEpianist]

Go with flagmen, these worthless leeches are getting $55 /hr to stand there and look like an ass. Fuck these pigs. They are leeches.

[Prophet658]

Oh great vid...another fat slob leaching off the taxpayers...a trained monkey could direct traffic..

[Treska0Bittinni]

Jimmy Treska and Gene Bertini are CHILD MOLESTING, CHILD MURDERING COWARDS!!!

[Treska0Bittinni]

Winchester Police, the tremendous officers are Gabby Reece, Peter Hersey, Phil Coss, Ellis and how in the World is Lt.Pierce not the Chief of Police? What a joke to put that other guy in there. What did he ever accomplish? Time to list the bad cops of Winchester......, no McGee was not bad at all. I was pissed at him, yet he is forgiven, we all make mistakes. Ok, Doug Wilkerson, just because you were in Desert Storm, does that give him the right to threaten to shoot unarmed people? Fuck no!!!!!