Blush a little, blush a lot

I was following a Monroe Police car the other night and I guess I noticed for the first time they have their Website -- www.monroepolice.org -- painted right on the car. I figured for them to pay to have the address on each patrol car, it must be some helpful site.
So I went there.
I expected to find some basic crime prevention tips.
Nope.
I expected to find some statistics.
Naw.
I expected to find a place where I could file a complaint online, like the sheriff has.
Apparently not.
I expected to see maybe some pictures of cops in classrooms spreading the good word to kids.
Not quite.
I took a breath and looked again.
Then I realized the site apparently hadn't been updated for months and apparently some parts haven't been updated for years.
That's okay though.
My guess is that it's probably being maintained on a totally volunteer basis by cops on their own time.
If so, I can understand if its a little behind the times.
But, folks, every cop car is a rolling advertisement for this site. Basically, 24 hours a day, there's a car on the streets saying look at the site.
In that context, it's a bit of an embarassment.
Then I remembered the story I heard about the sheriff's department having to handle a serious crime in the city not too long ago because no city police detective could be mustered to the scene.
Now if that's true, it really is an embarassment and an even poorer advertisement for the police.
I wonder if the city's hired-gun efficiency experts will hear about that when they do their interviews of various city employees.
I bet that kind of stuff just cheeses off the real working stiffs in the police department. And remember, most of them carry guns.