"Pull Over Please!"

In my northern New Jersey
town of 27,000,
the down town center is 
a triangle of three streets,
a 5-6 mile drive.

Everytime I drove through town,
I easily passed two to three
police cars,
often finding one officer
tailing me and 
passing at least
one police car
sneakily hidden to
ticket 
speeders,
those already
paying property taxes to 
pay our small town cops
$100,000 a year - while
the cops in Paterson are
averaging $78,000 a year.
How did that happen?

My small town
was now a 
police state.

Black lives matter.
Gay lives matter.
Blue lives matter.
Do working class commuter lives matter?
Why must the cop-pers
harass the working class
who have a
mortgage,
bills,
health insurance
and
taxes to pay?

I want my police
officers focusing their
time and energy capturing
murderers,
rapists,
drug dealers,
burglers,
drunk drivers,
and
cold cases.

Let the workers focus 
on getting to and 
from their livelihoods.