From what I have been told many of the smaller county's budgets are directly tied to arrest and conviction statistics.

This creates a multitude of problems.
Officers literally have to score X convictions or their buddy might "loose his job".
Similarily, the only way out of traffic duty up the career ladder might be a high conviction rate.
The sick thing is that this just the tip of the iceberg. AFAIK departments have been doctoring their statistics for so long it has widely become accepted that you literally go "fishing" once the next review period comes up (usually its more like speeding/broken tail lights, etc) and is widely viewed as common practice.
However after 9/11 a lot of departments have inflated their expenses with more equipment/personel (go look how many redneck county police deparments have their own Special Tactics Squads...) - combine that with poor budgeting and you can see where this goes...
Not all the blame can be put on the police though - a lot of it comes down to the way the review process works (i.e. convictions vs crimes prevented - go figure which is the easier statistic to use/present).
This problem really isn't new unfortunately.

Engineering fail.

"Hey, my dog climbs over this wall and gate. Let's give him a ladder on top!"

Same piece oriented vertically would be 100% effective.

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"No one knew ladders would be so difficult"

Perhaps you are ignorant of the fact that the vast majority cross where walls already exist. To answer your question, nearly all of them would still try. Do you really think a fence is deterrence when the alternative is go home and see your family raped to death before you're decapitated? Would you just say "oops, sorry, didn't mean to trigger you....let me just take my daughter back to the narcos for a life of sex slavery and just die then, so sorry."?

A better immigration policy that makes it easier to get a work visa or asylum at ports of entry instead of making illegal entry easier, simpler, cheaper, and faster would discourage people from taking the easier, but illegal path. We are moving the other direction, which is why illegal immigration is on the rise under Trump after falling steadily for decades.

This doesn't cost America except for fighting it, they make us money with cheap labor, taxation without representation or access to government assistance, and by lowering the per capita crime rates by being far less criminal on average than Americans. You want to deport a group that's well above average in criminality, that would be Republican politicians and or Trump associates...no one will miss a single one.

A $50 billion wall (Trump's never built anything that wasn't at least 100% over budget) that can be evaded with a ladder, shovel, car, truck, saw, torch, boat, plane, and in many many places, absolutely nothing (it's no longer a single solid wall from coast to gulf, it's now a fence in a few more places for your $50 billion.) is not just vastly more expensive, it's also uselessly wasting that money for almost zero return, the few places it might help will just see the migrant paths move a few miles over.

If we had a 40+ ft high, 20 ft deep, 4+ft thick reinforced concrete wall coast to coast that was somehow ladder proof, it still wouldn't stop most illegal immigration or drug trafficking, because the vast majority of both come through ports of entry. The wall is a useless solution to a non existent problem that's been solving itself for decades....side note: what do you think it was like in the good old days when America was "great"? Contrary to Chump's claims, operation wetback (that he wants to reimplement) was a failure....
https://www.cato.org/blog/enforcement-didnt-end-unlawful-immigration-1950s-more-visas-did

TBH I'm a little disappointed that people dressed as Ninja's needed a ladder.

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You don't always have a ladder with you. These guys luck out. Walls work.

They say a ladder is medieval. Well, so is a wall. A ladder is older than a wall.

And I looked at every single wall out there, even the really expensive ones that the Secret Service uses, and believe me they are expensive. I said, can you climb over this with a ladder? Yes. Oh, I thought it was medieval.

The ladder is older than the wall, you know that? There are some things that work. You know what? A ladder works to make a wall not work. Nothing like a ladder.

*doublepromote the *quality advancements Mexico has recently made after discovering ladder technology.

With luck, this evidence of how easily a wall is defeated would make Trump rethink holding government workers hostage for wall funding....unlikely though, since it's not a meant to be a serious security measure, it's meant to be a monument.

You know he can't use that right? Whoever gave money to this gofundme is an idiot.

Can't give the money to him directly.
Can't give the money to the gov. directly.
Can't just go start building a wall themselves.

All that's going to happen is someone who wanted to take advantage of a bunch of white supremacist idiots is going to laugh and ride off with a bunch of their money in another gofundme scam.

Am I wrong?

PLEASE explain EXACTLY how this money changes hands so it ends up being spent on some kind of boarder wall. Keep in mind congress has the power of the purse.

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Whoops, I thought this was the gofundme for the boarder wall itself...not for ladders...lol.

$160,635 of $100.0M goal as of 1-8-19 @ 6:20 PM

https://www.gofundme.com/ladders-to-get-over-trump039s-wall

I like his new plan, to take the money directly from the military for the monument to his own stupidity. Republicans should love that.
He's going to be really upset to learn that Mexico has developed ladder technology, making fences and walls obsolete.

Networks should refuse to air his speech and cite President Trump who repeatedly said he might yank the broadcasting license of networks that air fake news and lies as the reason.

Maybe it just seems more dangerous than it is, but if you miss that ladder and fall between the ice and the ship, I can't see that ending well.