Legislative District 2

State Representative Position 2

JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: Cops need to enforce the laws, and serve the public. If you don’t know there is a problem with your car or if you haven’t paid up for your tags they should stop you. The issues at hand is that too many times we are seeing police acting in a way that is unbecoming of law enforcement. And really this links back to a much bigger issue.
JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: I come from a state where the governor’s troops were working for the mob doing killings for them for over 20 years. You have that case in Florida where they shot the kid who was running and the local prosecutor dropped the charges.
JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: Police are not above the law. The badge is not a “you can do anything” license. Police should be held to a higher standard.
JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: We can’t have bad police rolling out every day holding the public they are support to support in fear and terror.
JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: Everybody always blames the bad things on some dirty cops. And it’s fine with you because it’s only a few bad cops. That is till you grow up and realize that your father was one of those bad cops and that he thinks the things he did were fine.
JT Wilcox: <Did not complete questionnaire>
Edward Meer: I don’t know. Some people can’t be in the general public.

JT Wilcox (Republican Party)

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Edward Meer (States No Party Preference)

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Right now, we have tons of problems. We have a shortage of officers, 911 operators, and Detectives.
If we don’t fix that then we can’t do anything. NPR has done multiple reports on how the shortage is leading to cops not being able to do their jobs. And that leads to a public not being safe.
On top of that we have seen the issues in other states with the police not responding or just hiding from their duties. So, we need to make sure none of that happens here
Right now, we need to bring in more good cops. People want to come here but the standard of living is too high. They can’t afford homes where they want to be and we don’t seem to be trying to bring anyone here.
I have a plan for housing for state employees to make it easier for cops and other needed personnel to get a home they can live in as they save up for something not linked to the state.
I have a thing where I want cops to wear 3 different sets of cameras and I want them to be on the entire time they are on the clock.
We also need better training. Training that doesn’t teach them that everyone is a bad guy and that they should be jumpy as hell with every turn they take. That just doesn’t work.