‘Walk a mile in their shoes’
Maybe when a new chief is appointed and with some new guidelines implemented to procedure and such, we can finally let our city police department get back to their job, keeping us safe.
The morale with in our law enforcement personal is important today, more than any other time. They are under a lot of scrutiny. There are some people just waiting for them to make mistake. Those same people that point their fingers at our police are in their warm bed at night, or if it is raining, they are dry. Walk a mile in their shoes, then complain.
The Special Operations Group has been disbanded. Since then we have had a shooting with some deaths almost everyday last week. This is unacceptable.
Either, we let the police do their job, which includes patrolling the high-crime areas more or we have the making of anarchy here in Columbus with the thugs in control. The black-to-white ratio in arrest has nothing to do with keeping us safe. This fact was why the SOG was disbanded. The racial make-up of a neighborhood would determine arrest ratio in that area, don’t you think?
All I am trying to say is, let the police do their job. Let the department chief discipline his men.
Gun control is not the problem, we have a sin problem.
Lee Roy Lollar, Jr.
Columbus
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