Police traffic details are a waste of tax payer money

First, I would like to say hello to my opponent and that I look forward to this debate. I took this debate for many reasons. The main reason is that I disagree that police traffic details are a waste of tax payers money. Second, I did not want to see some of the members fall on this debate with semantics and other tricks and gimmicks. Third, I wanted to be your first opponent so that you receive a straight debate as you start out here at debate.org. And I wanted to boost your confidence with a easy win. I do believe that the police officers are "playing dirty" and they should be corrected as needed. I do not excuse their behaviour in anyway. I hope that by mentioning this that you intended this fact to be as a side note to this debate. Now on to what I believe to be the "meat" of this debate. I believe that police officers are more effective in protecting the life and limb of the construction workers. The average driver will more quickly and completely obey the requests/demands of an officer of the law over the same from a flagman. For one, a flagman can shake his flag at me but other then strike my truck he can do no real harm to me. A police officer on the other hand can do significantly more damage to me personally if I fail to obey his directions. I have driven to and through a majority of the lower forty eight. In my experience I have witnessed drivers going around flag men, attempt to "push" a flagman out of the way with their car and completely ignore the flagman. On the other hand at many road construction sites that there was a police presence I have never seen any of these behaviours. You will see many more brake lights when the police officers are present over the lack of slowing when a flag man is present. On to the moral side of this debate. I believe that a fellow human beings life (construction worker) is worth more then my tax dollars. I will gladly give a few more to help ensure that these men that are needed for our safe roadways are protected as much as is humanly possible. If you have any statistics to show that my claims are false I would encourage you to post them in your next round. And make sure that the websites you use are creditable. This will help you in future debates. I hope this site will begin to change over the next few months so that debates such as this will not be abused by our "better" members. I hope I have made an example for some of the debaters, that they will help there fellow members instead of slander, insult and degrade them. This I believe is for the health of this site in general. I wish you the best of luck and the Love of Christ. If you have any questions I will be glad to help you in anyway I can. If I can not answer or advise you in a certain area of this site or in debate in general I have some friends that will be glad to help. This is your first debate so please do not take it to seriously at this point. This will be an easy win for you, because of the attention I have brought to this recent plague that has infected debate.org I have been black balled by the some of the members here that want there win ratio's to remain where they are. So take it easy and get the hang of it and I will hear from you next round or hopefully sooner. joshandr30. P.S. We have several Grammarians here at debate.org. It would be a good idea to make sure your grammar and spelling is in order. I can see that you do not have much trouble with this area but here one little slip up will be sung from the rooftops. If you are wondering what a Grammarian is please visit this website. http://redwing.hutman.net...