Sheriff Enforcement Priorities and Gear Grinding Garden State Bagels

As most residents know, Encinitas chooses to contract with the San Diego Sheriff's Department to provide law enforcement services.  Within that contract, specific manning is specified, meaning that the number of personnel serving Encinitas is limited.  When they are dealing with one issue, they are unable to then deal with other issues due to limited officers on call at any one time.  Obviously, Encinitas isn't a criminal hotbed, but sometimes it's hilarious to see what local law enforcement considers essential duties.

Here's Officer Smokey staying hidden and lying in wait for red light and cell phone violations.  While I was at the street corner, he busted someone for talking on their phone while stopped.  The hilarious part is that this is just outside of the shopping center that houses Garden State Bagels, who of course has a long history of gear grinding the Sheriffs for using their center for traffic enforcement.  I guess this is the Sheriffs gear grinding him back. 

Meanwhile, neighborhoods in New Encinitas have been told there is not enough manning to provide any kind of speed enforcement in neighborhoods where kids are playing, nor do they seem willing and able to stop periodic strings of vehicle break-ins (like the recent one noted on NextDoor on Orchard Wood Dr. in the Bridgewater neighborhood).  Priorities, though, AMIRITE?!?!