> Police helicopters - I can't take it!

[Skid Row Joe]

In the last 10 - 15 years, police helicopters have been mainstreamed in many medium to larger sized cities across the country - to aid law enforcement officers on the ground in apprehending scumbag suspects and criminals running from the law.

In the two cities I spend much of the time of the year in, Omaha, NE., and Dallas, Texas the nightime activities of these police helicopters circling parts of the city I am trying to get a good night's sleep in, has become maddening. I am fully used to the comings and goings of the Care and Life Flight choppers that cross the airpath above my home at all hours, heading to and from Baylor University Hospital in near east downtown Dallas, but the police helicopters circling for up to an hour between 12 - 4 a.m. is getting a bit much. It is sometimes a circus procession of police cars running the streets at the same time.

Does anyone else living in an urban setting find nightime police helicopter activities unnerving? A police helicopter has been circling as I type this note, but has left......twice earlier this week, same deal. The weekends are an especially ripe time for these endless flights above my part of the city. I wonder if I should move to the country?