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properly trained and experienced

and a good person that holds themselves accountable

about as tough for cops that have been in the system for more than a few years as it seems to  be for politicians that have been in the system for too long

It also inspires the mediots to paint violent criminals as "hands up, don't shoot!"

Setting aside the narrative of hands up don't shoot, something I to a degree roll my eyes at, it raises an interesting question of how stupid people can be around cops. 

We assume people on average are at best inattentive and fidgety. And the arrangement is they as the non-trained person are to be whip-straight in line, lest their life be forfeit to the trained government actors. We're taught to regard the cops less as responsible parties, but more of hair-trigger landmines that might well explode if brushed in the slightest way. 

Because I'm unfamiliar with the layouts of marinas, when you say gate, what does that mean? I'm imagining a gate like at the edge of a fenced in front yard, but I have a feeling that's not right.

Well, you're right in your assumption. In our marina, there are main entrances (gates) that pass through common buildings - one of which I am sitting in now. Mine is at 5909 3rd Avenue in Kenosha. You can google earth that to see it. Here is an Ariel view of the layout:

That is looking NE'ly. At the Southwest is the building I'm sitting in, which also houses the gate we use to get in, and to get out to the marina parking lot, which is adjacent. My dock is the 3rd one up from the South. We are about as far out on that dock as you can get (4 slips from the end).

Many of the fires were about a block to the West from the parking area. One properly placed Molotov cocktail turns this place into Beruit. Harbor fires are not good.

looks familiar

The building we entered through when you visited is the one to the North. The one to the South, where we enter now, was not yet built. We moved docks since you came here.

No parking lot expansion. They built it back in the day, with the idea that the harbor would be expanded to the master plan. Private development at work. Efficient, and all that.

We mostly all want the same things.

A nice place to raise our family.